Takashi Kanda

Professional Killers

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

Taikouki

Based on the life of Hideyoshi Toyotomi (February 2, 1537 – September 18, 1598) a Sengoku period daimyo who uni...

Scandal

A celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn over a painter and a f...

August Without Emperor

Taking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese government on V...

Mermaid Legend

A married couple of abalone divers must confront ruthless investors taking over their coastline.

Japan's Don

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

Case of the Disjointed Murder

In the summer of 1947, various men and women gather at a mansion in the countryside at the invitation of Kazuma...

The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes

Solar Eclipse

When bribe money from a rigged election funnels into a dam construction project, collusion, lust, greed and eve...

Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters

A greedy developer, in league with a corrupt Shrine Magistrate, brutally tries to drive people out of a tenemen...

The Yoshida School

Coinciding with the LDP presidential election of the entire national public, a masterpiece depicting the revers...

Points and Lines

Based on Matsumoto Seicho's classic mystery novel of the same name, the story centers around a group of detecti...

Prince of Space

Attracted by the report of the development of a new type of rocket fuel, the vicious dictator of Krangkor, the...

Town of Violence

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

If Indeed One Loves

The film consists of three short stories. Tomiko, the heroine of the first story, "The Flower Girl" (dir. Kozab...

Memoir of Japanese Assassinations

This anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when assassins changed...

The Escape

Film about the 2-26 Incident.

Miyamoto Musashi III: Birth of Two Sword Style

In the third installment of Yoshikawa's novel Musashi, things continue from the 2nd film at the end of battle,...

Hiroshima

Historical fiction about the aftermath of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan, on 6 August 1945, and its eff...

Return of Giant Majin

The tyrannical Lord Danjo Mikoshiba covets the rich, fertile lands surrounding Lake Yakumo. During a memorial c...

Shadow of Deception

It was five years ago when Minako spent a night with Sozo, younger brother of her ex-husband. She now lives in...

The Ball at the Anjo House

After Japan's defeat in the war, the Anjo family lose their peerage and wealth. Since their mansion is due to p...

Yokai Monsters: Spook Warfare

When a Babylonian vampire comes to old Japan, an army of Japanese demons and ghosts gather and battle him.

Invasion of the Neptune Men

Astronomer Shinichi Tachibana has a secret identity as the superhero "Iron Sharp" and is well beloved by childr...

The Eleventh Hour

Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A so...

Tower of Lilies

A group of Okinawan high school girls are drafted as nurses during the American invasion of the island. As the...

Asakusa no kyōkaku

Sonny Chiba is a young gambler on the run. He pretends to be an innocent student, and is taken in by an honorab...

Outlaw Cop

A bad cop is engaged in a violent chase to catch a yakuza boss. In his absence his wife runs away with another...

The King

The film takes place at the junction of the two eras of Meiji and Taisho. Sakata Sankichi, an uneducated zori s...

The Challenge

Journalist Kuroki is investigating clandestine arms sales to Southeast Asia. He discovers that the point man in...

The Great Road

The story of a certain engineer from his youth until he retired from the Japanese National Railways after the w...

Mid-August Commotion

A suspense work based on the "Miyagi Incident," an attempted coup d'etat led by some officers working for the M...

Police Precinct: Nothing Left at the Scene

A man who uses marriage as bait goes from woman to woman, and then a horrific murder is committed for money. Se...

The Wolves

A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japa...

The Story of Pure Love

Junai Monogatari AKA Story of Pure Love is about two poor youths, Mitsuko and Kando, rebelling against society...

The Lord Takes a Bride

Young Lord Gentaro (Otomo Ryutaro) takes a journey to Edo in search of his future wife. Easier said than done,...