Yoshito Yamaji

The Tale of Zatoichi

The adventures of a blind, gambling masseur and master swordsman. Zatoichi targets a yakuza-controlled village,...

The 47 Ronin

In the early 18th-century, Lord Takumi-no-kami Asano, feuding with Lord Kira, tries to kill his opponent in the...

The Tale of Zatoichi Continues

Returning to the village where a year before he had killed Hirate, a much-admired opponent, Zatoichi encounters...

Satan's Sword

The Dai-bosatsu toge trilogy is based on Kaizan Nakazato's unfinished long series of novels (41 books, written...

Assassination

In 1863, when American warships approach Japan, an enigmatic ronin becomes an important figure in a complex gam...

The Sun's Burial

In Osaka's slum, capricious folks without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and t...

Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2

Part 2 starts where the first film ended, with Iemon disposing of the bodies of his wife and Kohei, marrying up...

The Third Will

A story about a wealthy family and the greed and selfishness of three daughters and relatives, after the passin...

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,...

Carmen Comes Home

A rural village elder plans an event on the return of a farmer's daughter from the city, unaware that she has b...

Yokai Monsters: Along with Ghosts

In feudal Japan, gangsters chase a young girl who might testify against their boss. When the gangsters murder t...

荒木又右衛門

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

Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1

Iemon Tamiya is an impoverished masterless samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot have because of hi...

Cut the Shadow

The womanizing master of a run-down dojo hires an unemployed samurai to make himself look good instead of learn...

Hana no shôgai

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

The Shop Curtain

The lives of a family of kelp (kombu) merchants in Osaka across three generations, spanning from the Meiji era...

Nitōhei monogatari: Shindara kami-sama no maki

Fourth sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".

A Country Boss

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

流轉

In the eleventh year of the Tenpō era, the Kawarazaki-za theater in Edo buzzed with excitement for a new produc...

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...

大江戸出世双六

Isshin Tasuke, a friend of Ōkubo Hikozōemon, the esteemed public arbitrator of the realm, saved the maid Onatsu...

治郎吉格子

Aboard a ship connecting Kyoto and Osaka, Osan was pickpocketed by a sham blind biwa player. A man who looked l...

Rabble Tactics

The warlords overrun the country while the farmers are starving, and forced to become soldiers to keep the wolf...

With Wife, Children, and Friends

Japanese life during the past thirty-five turbulent years is depicted in this film through the eyes of two poli...

Rira no hana wasureji

In the 30th year, Nirasaki Den'emon established the Nirasaki Hokkaido Development Company with investment from...

Tsukigata Hanpeita

During the ultra-violent era of the downfall of the Tokugawa Shogunate one man rose above the rest with his ide...

The Inner Palace Conspiracy

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

The Big Ambition

Christ in Bronze

Christian converts face persecution in the feudal society of 17th century Japan.

The Loyal 47 Ronin

This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the...

Otome no iru kichi

Japanese war movie.

Namida no hanamichi

Nakamura Yukinojō, Edo's most popular actor, discovered that his parent's enemy, Ohara Genba, had changed his n...

Utau yajikita kogane dōchū

1957 Japanese movie

Seizoroi momoiro goten

1957 Japanese movie

Fighting Letter for 29 People