Mitsuo Nagata

Professional Killers

A shikakenin was an under-the-cover trade that undertook killing in Edo. Hanemon of Otowa, an agency that intro...

Three Outlaw Samurai

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

Japan's Don

A yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo with the domest...

Samurai from Somewhere

Young Lord Takenaka stands to succeed his father until a series of violent actions lead his retainers to think...

The Love of the Actress Sumako

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

Scoundrel

Shimamura is a violent street thug who joins the yakuza & is merciless & unscrupulous on his rise, lacking any...

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...

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,...

慶安水滸傳

Chikuzen, a ronin named Yoh Daisuke, after pacifying some ruffians at the theater of Onna-Kata Ogino Sawanojiki...

A Country Boss

A country boss gives up his way of life because of his daughter's marriage.

The Inner Palace Conspiracy

A period mystery in which an unconventional priest exposes the truth behind the bizarre death of a maid in the...

Hana no shôgai

In 1842, in the Umemoku Mansion within Hikone Castle, Naosuke Ii, despite the tumultuous times, was engrossed i...

A Good Man, A Good Day

The university professor Ozeki Hitoshi (Ryu Chishu) is regarded as an eccentric by people in his surroundings....

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...

Kanto Street Peddlers: Violent Fire Festival

The fourth film in the Kanto Street Peddlers series. The protagonist, played by Bunta Sugawara sides with femal...

荒木又右衛門

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

Onatsu Detective Case: Mad Slasher

Japanese crime film

Utau yajikita kogane dōchū

1957 Japanese movie

Beautiful Gonpati

A foot soldier from Tottori domain named Shirai Gonpachi showcased exceptional swordsmanship that even surpasse...

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...

Bored Hatamoto: The Imposter

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

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...

Broken Drum

When the future of his construction company falls into danger, a controlling father pushes his children into un...

愛情の旋風

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...

Seizoroi momoiro goten

1957 Japanese movie

The Bored Samurai

Saotome Mondonosuke is Hatamoto (a high-class warrior who is allowed to see the Shogun in person) who has a cre...

振袖釼法

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

お役者変化

During the Genroku era, Azusa Gennosuke, renowned in Nara as a top swordsman and a scholar, crossed swords with...

Sakon Detective Story: Handprint in Fresh Blood

Zoku kagebōshi ryūkoaiutsutsu

A continuation of the prior film (影法師).