Kenzō Tanaka

Harakiri

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

Kwaidan

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

Assassination

In 1863, when American warships approach Japan, an enigmatic ronin becomes an important figure in a complex gam...

Three Outlaw Samurai

Shiba, a wandering ronin, encounters a band of peasants who have kidnapped the daughter of their dictatorial ma...

The Sun's Burial

In Osaka's slum, capricious folks without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and t...

The Love of the Actress Sumako

Stage director Shimamura, who is bringing western theatre to Japan, falls in love with outspoken actress Sumako...

Women of the Night

In early post-war Osaka, three women—war widow Fusako, her Korean expat sister Natsuko, and Kumiko, Fusako's si...

Samurai from Nowhere

Misawa Ihei (Nagato) is traveling with his wife Tae (Iwashita Shima) who abhors the practice of sword fighting...

Love Under the Crucifix

A tea master and his daughter Ogin are both Christians in feudal Japan. Ogin falls in love with a married feuda...

Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2

Part 2 starts where the first film ended, with Iemon disposing of the bodies of his wife and Kohei, marrying up...

Kagebōshi

On the night the shogunate's treasury was breached, the guard Utsugi had already been taken down. His colleague...

大当り男一代

Shinzō, the heir of the prominent Edo lumber dealer Yamashiroya, left home when his stubborn father, Chōzaemon,...

Honno-Ji in Flames

The plot is based on the novel "Akechi Samanosuke no Koi," the final work in a trilogy by Hiroshi Kato about th...

The Battle of Kawanakajima

This epic depicts the battle between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. The focus of the story is the struggle...

荒木又右衛門

Watanabe Kazuma and Kawai Matagorō from the Bizen Okayama Ikeda clan were close friends, but they inevitably be...

The Adventures of Chuji

Chuji Kunisada runs into strange adventures which tests his skill as a samurai as he untangles intrigue and mur...

Denshichi Torimonocho: Tattoo Woman Trouble

During the era of Tokugawa Ieyasu, one night a carver named Fujijiro was murdered. Immediately launching an inv...

The Image of Mother

A resolute young man searching for his mother, whom he was separated from as a child, defies a family who mistr...

Pfc. Story - Behind the Enemy Lines

First "Pfc. Story" sequel and eighth overall sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".

Tsukigata Hanpeita

During the ultra-violent era of the downfall of the Tokugawa Shogunate one man rose above the rest with his ide...

Passion Fire

The time was the first year of Keio (1865). Upon hearing the news that the Imperial Army was approaching Hida T...

快盗三人吉三

On March 11 in the seventh year of Tenpo (1836), a monk named Bennō, who fell in love with a geisha named Oshim...

Denshichi Torimonocho: Silver Snake Spell

The eleventh episode of the Denshichi Torimonocho series. Around the time of Shogun Ienari, a murderer known as...

振袖釼法

In Marugame Domain of Shikoku, a low-ranking foot soldier named Tagami Genbachi was envied for marrying Tsuji,...

Sakon Detective Story: Handprint in Fresh Blood

Surprising 53 Stations of the Tokaido

Kintaro goes on a journey to his hometown to meet his mother and sister. His love for singing leads him to a pe...

Navy

Japanese war film.

Zoku kagebōshi ryūkoaiutsutsu

A continuation of the prior film (影法師).

As the Clouds Scatter

A provincial bus driver plans to marry his conductress, but one night he glimpses the woman he once loved, whic...

Somersault on the Way

A young boy named Chomatsu (Misora Hibari) lives with an old man Denbei near the grounds of Asakusa temple as b...

Denshichi Torimonocho: Female Fox Palanquin

One night in Edo, a mysterious woman in a palanquin appeared at the moneylender Yamashiroya, revealing herself...

Adventures of Princess Anmitsu

Gan-chan no keisatsu nikki

元祿美少年記

On February 4th of the 16th year of the Genroku era, Yatō Uemon no Shichi reminisces while waiting his turn for...

Story of Second Class Private, Sequel

First sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".

The Tragedy of Bushido

A 16-year-old youth is ordered to commit ritual suicide to follow his deceased lord into death and preserve the...