Kenjirō Ishiyama

Kogarashi Monjiro

Monjiro was born into a poor farm family in Mikazuki Village, Nitta County, Ueshu, and abandoned his hometown w...

High and Low

A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but dem...

Kwaidan

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

Love and Crime

A series of short stories about bizarre crimes committed by females in the Meiji, Taisho, and Showa Eras. Disco...

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...

Japan's Longest Day

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

Miyamoto Musashi

In Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving nothing becaus...

Nunnery Confidential

Erotic Pinku film showcasing he life of Buddhist nuns during the Edo Period.

Wicked Priest

During the Taisho Period (early 1920's) a monastery of warrior monks was split apart between two factions. One...

The Sound of Waves

On a small island, inhabited by only fourteen hundred people, a young fisherman's son, Shinji falls in love wit...

Industrial Spy

Kogure, an industrial spy, is tasked by Sawada, head of the research department of the Nisshin Corporation, to...

The Chivalrous Life

Ryoma is a former military man who gets to know the leader of a yakuza group and begins to work with them, help...

The Great White Tower

The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa Univ...

The Militarists

Sworn Brothers

Ichikawa Raizo’s last film. He plays a Yakuza enforcer who kills a man on his boss's orders. He’s then sent to...

Hatsu sugata ushimatsu gōshi

Fukagawa's chef Ushimatsu of the restaurant Kawatake fell in love with a maid named Omame and changed dramatica...

Zatoichi the Outlaw

When a local gambling house kidnaps some peasants because they failed to pay their debts, a rival gambling hous...

Vanished Enlisted Man

In June 1941, Captain Kagawa (Ryutaro Tatsumi), who had just graduated from the military academy, was assigned...

The Kanto Scarlet Cherry Gang

The Ni Family is the most well know and respected group of firefighters in the Kanto region. When their leader...

The White Rose of Hong Kong

Narcotics officer Matsumoto’s investigation into a drug smuggling ring leads him from Tokyo to Hong Kong, where...

Red Peony Gambler: Here to Kill You

The seventh chapter of the stunning Hibotan Bakuto series. Many years have passed since Oryu the Red Peony bega...

Classmates

A story of young students trained to become Kamikaze pilots in World War II.

Blackmail Is My Life

Though he has come from a rough background on the streets, Muraki quickly rises through the ranks by means of h...

Brave Red Flower of the North

An exciting tale of action on the distant northern island of Hokkaido around the beginning of the 20th Century...

The Symbol of a Man

A Japanese intelligence officer faces personal crises in the years preceding the Manchurian conflict.

Hoodlum Priest And The Gold Mint

It’s cross and double-cross in these further adventures of Ryuzen, the wayward priest played by Katsu Shintaro...

Las Vegas Free-For-All

The Crazy Cats, a Japanese musical-comedy group, were showcased a series of comic adventures throughout the 196...

The Domain: Where The Blade Enters

The Domain: Where The Blade Enters

Kojiro

Sasaki Kojiro tells the story of the genius who staked his love, glory, and life on a duel with the supreme mas...

The Falcon Fighters

In the prewar days leading up to the Second Sino-Japanese War of 1937, head flight instructor Lt. Katō Tateo of...

Prince of Wolves

As the post-war turmoil continued, Take, the boss of the waifs, stole the money of US soldiers and lived with f...

Hanran

Price of Life

Comedy of a phony doctor.

You and I

Rogue

Coal miner Isamu Oba is forced to quit his village and leave his mother and siblings behind. Mining buddy Ichir...