Jushiro Kobayashi

Queen of the Treasure Island

At a tavern in Shimoda, Ronin Tadakazu Yamakawa saved a samurai girl named Mino from the clutches of the Benten...

Memoir of Japanese Assassinations

This anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when assassins changed...

Red Peony Gambler: Biographies of a Gambling Room

Oryu the Red Peony, a wandering female yakuza on a soul-searching journey after the death of her father. After...

The Loyal 47 Ronin

This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the...

The Eagle and the Hawk

In a warehouse area at night, a drunk chief engineer is stabbed to death by someone who whistles. After the bre...

Troops of Darkness

A disgraced yakuza member, framed for the murder of his boss, emerges from prison eight years later with reveng...

The Life of a Chivalrous Man in Suruga: Broken Swords

The second film in the "Suruga yukyoden" series, in which Shintaro Katsu plays Jirocho Shimizu. The film featur...

Where did Sharaku go?

Writer Jippensha Ikku hears Tsutaya Juzaburo, a wholesaler of picture books, mutter on his deathbed, "Where has...

Yagyu Chronicles 2: The Secret Sword

This is the second film in the popular black and white series about the master swordsman, Yagyu Jubei. When the...

Last Days of Edo

It is a historical drama that follows Katsu Kaishu's efforts to surrender Edo Castle bloodlessly in the first y...

The Pacific War and the International Military Tribunal

In 1941, overpopulated Japan faces an economic boycott and its armed forces push further to the south. And desp...

Kaisha monogatari: Memories of You

A hard-working section chief, fast approaching retirement and beset by stress from all directions, joins a jazz...

Ashita wa Ashita no Kaze ga Fuku

"Tomorrow is Another Day" tells the story of three brothers who struggle to shake free of the father's ties to...

The Pacific War and Himeyuri Corps

The last fight put up by remaining forces and a special volunteer nursing corps in 1944-5.

Bored Hatamoto: The Imposter

Around the Genroku era, there was a man named Saotome Shusui-no-Suke, nephew to the senior councilor Matsudaira...

Tōkaidō yajikita chin dōchū

Japanese comedy film.

Fangs of Night

A young doctor discovers that the city hall of records has a record of his death. He and some friends try to se...

Kagebôshi: The Shadow Avenger

For the poor, Edo is Hell on Earth, starving under the rule of Tanuma Okitsugi, corrupt councilor to the shogun...

Nikoyon monogatari

Japanese drama film.

The juvenile

A good young man accidentally joins a group of leg breakers

Crossroad

Ise, a successful entrepreneur, accidentally murders his lunatic wife after he is spotted having an affair with...

江戸いろは祭

Hatamoto Akabane Tanaka once ruined his life with alcohol in his youth, leaving behind his wife and son, Hanji,...

治郎吉格子

Aboard a ship connecting Kyoto and Osaka, Osan was pickpocketed by a sham blind biwa player. A man who looked l...

Bored Hatamoto: The Demon of Chinatown

Bored Hatamoto movie #12

Keshin

1962 Japanese movie

Satsuma-bikyaku

Okita Soji: Swordsman of Fire

Kurama Tengu: Anonymous letter to Tengu

Masked avenger Kurama Tengu and his young sidekick try to stop a mysterious adversary from assassinating a grou...

Picture Book of Sarutobi Sasuke

Japanese film.

Jūrokumon karasudō: Sennin higan

Japanese film.

The Actress and the Three Rascals

やくざ番外地　抹殺

Chûshingura - Zempen: Akahokyô no maki

Such is Life

Japanese drama film.

Gang vs. G-Men

Two rival gangs of gangsters clash for dominance of a neighborhood.

Mehyō to Narazu Mono

A poignant entertainment epic about a righteous mountain man, a young company director with new ideals, and a b...