Tōru Abe

Professional Killers

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

Shōgun

An English navigator becomes both a player and pawn in complex political games in feudal Japan.

Special Crime Investigation Front

Tokyo Story

The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their...

Tora! Tora! Tora!

In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed...

Female Yakuza Tale

Ocho is accidentally captured by a drug trafficking cartel who use Chinese women to smuggle drugs into Japan by...

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labour chief...

Nemuri Kyoshiro

Starting out in Edo, as Kyoshiro travels west toward Kyoto, he encounters some of the most dangerous obstacles...

Lovers Lost

A poignant love story between a 29-year-old woman, who has once been a prostitute but is now the mistress of a...

The Imperial Navy

A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the battleship...

Admiral Yamamoto

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

Lustful Shogun and His 21 Mistresses

The Tokugawa new Shogun is not interested in women. A nobleman with the help of a lady thief replaces the Shogu...

Ballad of Orin

A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed wherever she goes, even as the modern world imposes change a...

The Inheritance

A dying businessman intends to will ¥200 million to his three illegitimate children, but his associates scheme...

Take Aim at the Police Van

A sniper kills two prisoners in a police van, and the driver sets out to find the killer.

The Resurrection of the Golden Wolf

A seemingly run-of-the-mill corporate salaryman leads a double life as a vicious criminal by night. In a delici...

The Great Killing

A cynical samurai is left as the sole survivor to fulfill a plot to assassinate the puppet of a villain intent...

Cops vs. Thugs

When a lucrative waterfront development becomes available, the Kawade gang quickly use their political connecti...

Demon Pond

When a lone traveler stumbles upon a remote, drought-stricken village, he finds himself engulfed in a whirlpool...

Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance

Lady Snowblood is caught by the police and sentenced to death for her crimes. As she is sent to the gallows she...

Tarao Bannai

Legendary detective returns.

The Militarists

Zatoichi the Fugitive

After arriving in the town of Shimonita, Ichi finds that a price has been put on his head by a local yakuza bos...

Town of Violence

An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the l...

The Blazing Valiant

Jo has just come back to Japan for the funeral of his parents, who were killed in tribal warfare in Africa wher...

Blind Woman's Curse

Akemi is a dragon tattooed leader of the Tachibana Yakuza clan. In a duel with a rival gang Akemi slashes the e...

The River Fuefuki

In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant f...

Zatoichi Meets the One-Armed Swordsman

Zatoichi is a blind massage therapist and swordsman who finds out that something troubling is taking place on t...

Wrath of Daimajin

In a mountainous region of Japan, Lord Arakawa kidnaps the men of nearby villages to use as slave labor, produc...

Game of Chance

Bungo becomes a single parent when his wife leaves him because of his drinking and gambling. Deciding to quit h...

The Blind Menace

This is the story of a blind masseur who tricks people, steals, and kills; he is the anti-Zatoichi.

Girl Boss Guerilla

Sachiko is the leader of a girl gang from Shinjuku who wind up in Kyoto and make a bid to take over the local g...

Brand of Evil

A Jonan Station detective, Kikuchi, is framed for smuggling drugs and sent to prison. When he is paroled, he jo...

Lord Mito

One of Japan’s most popular historical characters, former Vice-Shogun Tokugawa Mitsukuni, whose travels around...

A Lively Geisha

Young geisha Koshizu's wish of reuniting with the man, Yukichi, who helped her ten years ago comes true. When s...

Run Truck Rascal, Run!

Momojiro and Jonathan go to Kochi on a ferry. On the ferry a singer called Yuka dropped her sheet music into th...