Ichirō Nakatani

Harakiri

Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemployed, and...

Family of Three

The drama features two families, the all-male Shibata family and the all-female Inaba family, and depicts the i...

Yojimbo

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen...

Kwaidan

Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A...

Kinagashi Bugyō

Koheita, a newly appointed magistrate, never shows his face in the magistrate's office, instead spending his ti...

Rodan

Mining engineer Shigeru investigates the disappearance and death of his fellow coworkers when prehistoric nymph...

ゴメスの名はゴメス

The Imperial Navy

A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the battleship...

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades

Ogami Itto volunteers to be tortured by Yakuza in order to save a prostitute and is hired by their leader to ki...

Shogun's Samurai

Following the death of the second Tokugawa shogun, it is revealed that he was poisoned by retainers of his son...

The Sword of Doom

Ryunosuke, a gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate rule, has no moral...

Admiral Yamamoto

As Japan joins in a political pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is appointed s...

The Battle of Okinawa

The Americans are swiftly closing on Okinawa, an island just south of the Japanese mainland. The Imperial comma...

Tenchu!

A ronin desperately seeks a way out of financial straits; he allies with the Tosa clan under the ruthless leade...

Sandakan No. 8

A young journalist interviews an elderly woman about being forced into prostitution in Borneo at a brothel call...

Japan's Longest Day

Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the governmen...

警視庁殺人課

The Summit of Mt. Fuji

The Japanese government decides to install a radar on the top of Mt. Fuji, in order to detect typhoons as far a...

Inn of Evil

In feudal Japan, when any commerce with the rest of the world is strictly prohibited, an idealist appears at an...

Solar Eclipse

When bribe money from a rigged election funnels into a dam construction project, collusion, lust, greed and eve...

Sleepy Eyes of Death 4: Sword of Seduction

A fugitive christian "saint" (female, of course!) and a sadistic drug-addled princess both have their eye on Ky...

The Fort of Death

The second Bounty Hunter film, when master killer Shikoro Ichibei takes up the cause of a group of farmers bein...

Blood Type: Blue

UFOs appear on Earth, and people who actually see them suddenly find that their blood has turned blue. Soon pan...

Samurai Banners

Kansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea. He enters the service o...

The Last Gunfight

Japanese police detective Saburo Fujioka is suspected of corruption, demoted, and sent to the city of Kojin. Ko...

Big Shots Die at Dawn

Grown up son arrives home to learn his father, the newly elected mayor, has been assassinated. So he journeys d...

New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1

Bunta Sugawara is Miyoshi, a low-level assassin of the Yamamori gang who is sent to jail after a bungled hit. W...

A Killer's Key

A lone wolf assassin, masquerading as a traditional dance instructor named Nitta, is called in to avert a poten...

Desperado Outpost

When Sergeant Okubo's brother is murdered at a Japanese outpost in Northern China during the Second World War,...

Willful Murder

The president of the Japanese National Railways is found dead during a period in which train service is plagued...

Rebels on the High Sea

A film by Hiroshi Inagaki.

Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny

The upstart Godai family conglomerate plans to strengthen ties with the hardliners in the Kwantung Army as they...

The Blue Beast

The ruthless and ambitious Yasuhiko uses his charm to manipulate and exploit those around him to climb the corp...

Blood End

Sentaro is been severely beaten for his defiance of the government and the high taxes during a time of famine....

Outlaw: Black Dagger

A street war breaks loose between two rival gangs in the Kansai region of Japan. Goro is in the middle of actio...

The Last Game

After the war-time government orders the disbanding of the Big-Six baseball league, the teams of Waseda and Kei...