Kyōko Kusajima

The Life of Oharu

During the Edo Period, a noblewoman's banishment for her love affair with a lowly page signals the beginning of...

Utau yajikita kogane dōchū

1957 Japanese movie

Youth in Fury

A reckless student contemplates terrorism in a prescient film that confirmed Shinoda as a fearless member of Sh...

The Bridal Night Again

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...

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...

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...

One Step to Happiness

ある落日

Beautiful Tengu

During the tumultuous end of the Tokugawa shogunate, the Tengu Party rose in rebellion in Mito. Friends from th...

The Brothers who Protect the Mountain

In the mountainous region of Koshu, Taikahara, there was an intense power struggle between the prominent famili...

To Sleep So as to Dream

An aging silent film actress hires a private eye and his wacky but helpful assistant to track down her missing...

風雲金毘羅山

The Brick Factory Girl

This film focuses on Koreans living in Japan. The filmmaker’s humanism comes across in the portrayal of a girl...

お役者小僧

The phantom thief, known as the "Actor Kid", who was creating a stir in the Daimyo's mansion, especially in the...

Ejima and Ikushima

This period film is inspired by one of the most notorious scandals to have taken place in Edo-period Japan. The...

Resurrection

Five Men of Edo

During the 17th Century roving bands of hatamoto were causing trouble in the new capital city of Edo and consta...

Utamaro and His Five Women

Utamaro, a great artist, lives to create portraits of beautiful women, and the Tokyo brothels provide his model...

Travels of Lord Mito Pt.3

Third film in the 'Travels of Lord Mito' franchise.

Enoken ohako rakuda no Ma-san

1950 Japanese movie

Edo no yubae

In the fourth year of Keio (1868), defeated retainers sought to restore the Tokugawa shogunate with the help of...

Otome no shinsatsu-shitsu

1953 Japanese movie

命との対決

若き日の千葉周作

Chiba Sōsaku, whose childhood name was Otome, was raised by his father Yukiuemon, the successor of the Hokushin...