Shigeo Kobayashi

The Flowers of War

A Westerner finds refuge with a group of women in a church during Japan's rape of Nanking in 1937. Posing as a...

Flower & Snake

The wealthy president of a company has built up an unpayable debt to a local crime lord, and to escape punishme...

Izo

Izo is an assassin in the service of a Tosa lord and Imperial supporter. After killing dozens of the Shogun's m...

Railroad Man

A railway stationmaster at a dying end-of-the-line village in Hokkaido is haunted by memories of his dead wife...

Where the Wind Blows

The decades spanning story of two very different policemen who rise to power in Hong Kong during British rule,...

Deadly Outlaw: Rekka

After Kunisada's Yakuza leader and father figure is brutally murdered, he and his best friend go on a two-man m...

Black Angel

Tokyo is a dark technopolis, a city of faceless chrome and cold marble. It is ruled by Nogi, a yakuza boss spec...

Graveyard of Honor

A barkeeper saves a Yakuza boss' life and thus makes his way up in the organization. However, his fear of nothi...

True Record of an Ando Gang Side-Story: Starving Wolf's Rules

Former yakuza gang boss Noboru Ando reminisces about old partner in crime Kei Hanagata.

Agitator

When a young Yakuza torments the customers in a rival crime family's nightclub, it is not long before his dead...

On Wings of Eagles

Eric Liddell - China's first gold medalist and one of Scotland's greatest athletes - returns to war-torn China.

The Life and Love of Kenji Miyazawa

A biographical drama depicting the life full of love and suffering of the writer and poet Kenji Miyazawa, who c...

The Firefly

Shūji Yamaoka was a suicide pilot during the war who somehow survived Japan's surrender. After decades of worki...

Yakuza Jihad

The first in the "Gokudo Seisen" series, a hard-line action OV that presents the original draft of Shigenori Ta...

Black Angel 2

Mayo, the Black Angel, is ordered to assassinate a powerful syndicate leader. The hit goes awry, however, as th...

Yakuza Jihad 2

The second installment of the "Gokudo Seisen" series, a hard-line action OV that presents the original draft of...

Yakuza Jihad 3

The third installment of the hard-line action OV "Gokudo Seisen" series, which presents the original draft of S...

Defenders

Kuomintang Commander Yao Ziqing is ordered to protect Baoshan County from the Japanese army, which launches a r...

Ballet in the Flames of War

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Otokotachi no uta

Collection of short films: Spaghetti Napolitan (Atsushi Kaneshige) 3:15 PM (Hiroyuki Nakano) Iron (Hiroyuki Nak...

Stray Dog

The first period drama from the prolific J- video studio GP Museum, with a luxurious cast.