Ryūtarō Tatsumi

Minamoto no Yoshitsune

The chronicles of the life of Minamoto no Yoshitsune (1159 - May 17th, 1189). He was a late Heian and early Kam...

The Ballad of Narayama

In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mo...

Story of Yakuza in Naniwa

A dramatization of Ryotaro Shiba's novel of the same title about the life of Kobayashi Sahē, a chivalrous man w...

Tenchu!

A ronin desperately seeks a way out of financial straits; he allies with the Tosa clan under the ruthless leade...

Admiral Yamamoto

As Japan joins in a political pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is appointed s...

Battle of the Japan Sea

Japan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the Japanese fleet an...

The Sands of Kurobe

Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transport...

Lullaby to Kill

Kôsuke Kindaichi, a somewhat peculiar private detective, visits a remote town. He meets a police detective and...

Shadow Hunters

Set during the declining years of the Tokugawa shogunate, Shadow Hunters details the questionably noble exploit...

The Last Samurai

The film follows the story of Sugi Toranosuke, a ronin, who returns to his home town of Edo many years after hi...

Hatsu sugata ushimatsu gōshi

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

Vanished Enlisted Man

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

Tora-san's Forbidden Love

Tora-san spends several days at the home of a hard-working salaryman ("salaried worker"), who abruptly disappea...

Nerves for Victory

A young yakuza who respects obligation and humanity must face cruel and heartless turf wars leading to a fight...

Yakuza of the Present

In the roaring 1970s, a man who has left the world of the yakuza to become the owner of a sushi restaurant deci...

Hanran

The Samurai of Edo

This historical film depicts the life of a man who was at the mercy of the waves during transition from the end...

Wild Spirit

It has been 5 years since Eijiro Kikukawa of the Asakusa Kaminarimon family killed the head of the Suzaki famil...

Fill the Cup with Blood

Second delivery in the "Yakuza Hijoshi" series. The protagonist, played by Ando Noboru, is torn between the org...

Our Town

In 1906, after finishing a tough migrant job in the Philippines, Takichi has returned to Japan. He starts to wo...

The Sunset is Calling Me

Contrast between two outlooks on life: one of a poor factory worker and the other the heir to millions.

Arashi Tatsunari

Can a woman love two men at the same time? Set against the backdrop of Kyoto's rich history, this story depicts...

Six Assassins

Bad Reputation: Showdown of the Best

The Forest of the Little Bear

Hunting master Ginzo kills a man-eating bear. When he finds out the bear had a cub, Ginzo decides to raise the...

Henchmen

The three henchmen join forces to challenge the brutal gang that is trying to control the city of Izu in Shizuo...

Dagger

The Girl I Abandoned

Tsutomu Yoshioka, a Tokyo office worker, is engaged to Mariko, the niece of his company's president. But Yoshio...

The Pledge

When Omuro Yahachi of the Omuro family is selected as Mutsumikai Soke's successor, the conflict between the Kit...

Man of a Stormy Era

The early years of the Showa period were turbulent times for Japan. The country suffered financial crisis and f...

The Code of Man

Tetsuya Watari, a modern youth idol, co-stars with Tetsuro Tamba for the first time, and a young man who surviv...

Kingdom of Samurai

Hirate Miki the Swordman

The man is chased by losing the beauty and preciousness of love and the foundation of life without overcoming t...

Kurama tengu: Aomen yasha

At the end of the Edo period - On his way back after being invited by the three Mikados of Higashi Shirakawa, K...

Hishakaku and Kiratsune: A Tale of Two Yakuza

With his penultimate film, Uchida revisited one of his popular prewar titles, 1936’s Theatre of Life, an adapta...

武蔵と小次郎

As the reputation of Sasaki Kojiro, who traveled through various provinces with his long sword seeking duels, b...