Etsushi Takahashi

A pair of down-on-their-luck swordsmen arrive in a dusty, windblown town, where they become involved in a local clan dispute. One, previously a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

Hanzo extracts a confession from a ghost using his assaulting methods, foils thieves, connects with Heisuke Takei a friend from his youth, offers...

Genre: Action

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Seiji Miyaguchi

Blind masseur and master swordsman Zatoichi finds a robbed and fatally wounded pregnant woman, whose baby he delivers before she dies. He takes the...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Two interwoven stories. The first is a biography of anarchist Sakae Osugi which follows his relationship with three women in the 1920s. The second...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariko Okada

Japan, February 1868. As the Tokugawa shogunate declines and the power of Emperor Meiji grows, Gonzo, a soldier of the Restoration Army, returns to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

A disgraced warrior planning the murder of a Japanese diplomat, and a ninja in the employ of a navy official are about to land in San Francisco when...

Genre: Western

Cast: Hiroyuki Sanada

During the military phase of the Meiji Restoration of 1868, Sentaro joins a local militia loyal to the Tokugawa Shogunate in order to fight Imperial...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tsutomu Hiura

The daughter of a Prime Minister turns down the proposal of a young teacher when she falls for the wrong man. Despite the continual degradation by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Miyuki Kuwano

Bored with her school life, a 16-year-old student leaves home to take a trip along the Pacific Ocean. After meeting with a theatre group she falls...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoko Takahashi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Tanaka

As a young woman, Oriko condemned her widowed mother for openly pursuing relationships with younger men. After her mother passes away, she finds...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariko Okada

UFOs appear on Earth, and people who actually see them suddenly find that their blood has turned blue. Soon panic and hysteria result in the new...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Hiroshi Katsuno

A widow and her two sons, Seitaro and Koji, live in the small town of Komori, where Buraku people are forced to reside. The two boys are...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Naoko Ohtani

Taking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese government on V-J Day. They aim to abolish the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tsunehiko Watase

A bad cop is engaged in a violent chase to catch a yakuza boss. In his absence his wife runs away with another man, who turns out to be the very same...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yoshio Harada

A criminal syndicate wants detective Onihei dead, but the resolute hero proves to be hard to kill.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kichiemon Nakamura II

1980 Japanese film distributed by Shochiku.

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Cast: Teruhiko Aoi

An entire Japanese international grade school—and all within—are mysteriously transported to a foreboding desert wasteland. As the story...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Yasufumi Hayashi

Keiko Inagawa (Asami Kobayashi) pays a visit to neurologist Aizawa about her fiancé Tatsuo Tamura (Kaoru Kobayashi). A mysterious case...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Asami Kobayashi

Final part of epic drama about war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Godai family through the Sino-Japanese War through...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Osamu Takizawa

Second part of an epic drama of war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Godai family from 1935 through Japan's invasion of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Osamu Takizawa

Following the death of the second Tokugawa shogun, it is revealed that he was poisoned by retainers of his son Iemitsu in hopes of gaining him the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

Political fixer Homei Yamaoka's misdeeds come to light, throwing Japanese politics into deadly confusion. But he's not going down without a fight.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Shin Saburi

The upstart Godai family conglomerate plans to strengthen ties with the hardliners in the Kwantung Army as they plan military expansion into...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Osamu Takizawa

When bribe money from a rigged election funnels into a dam construction project, collusion, lust, greed and even murder are on the ballot.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

The three-film saga comes to a conclusion as three leaders of the underworld battle it out to determine who will become Don of Japan.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Saburi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiko Kawai

A Yasuzō Masumura film about a love affair starring Ayako Wakao. The literal title is The Two Who Got Wet.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

A run-in with the police once again puts three former reformatory inmates on the wrong side of the law. Their situation becomes increasingly...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshizumi Ishihara

An ambitious Kansai yakuza don moves in on Tokyo using financial and political tactics, sparking conflict with a local criminal association.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Shin Saburi

Chief Detective KIMURA Denbei, fondly referred to as Smoky Denbei, is a legendary figure at the Metropolitan Police Department. Transferred to...

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Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

Following the lives of three college rugby players drafted to serve in the military during WWII. Though they believe their service will help to...

Genre: War

Cast: Yuji Oda

The Americans are swiftly closing on Okinawa, an island just south of the Japanese mainland. The Imperial command sends top generals and several army...

Genre: War

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

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

Genre: Crime

Cast: Shin Saburi

After Tokyo police officer Yokoda is killed in the line of duty, his chief decides give Yokoda's body to Dr. Tani for use in a secret scientific...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kai Shishido

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

A great famine struck all of Japan: the so-called Great Tenpō famine. It was a time when there were frequent uprisings in rural areas due to farmers...

Genre: History

Cast: Mikijiro Hira

The secret map of the treasure of Kenzan was stolen out of the house of a former soldier in Awa. A fight over the treasure that the map shows happens...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masakazu Tamura

A big battle between world class phantom thieves unfolds over the worlds largest diamond!

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Cast: Bunta Sugawara

A high school girl becomes convinced that her mother, who was said to have died fourteen years ago, is alive and residing in Hokkaido.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Momoko Kikuchi

Yasuo Furuhata directs this romantic yakuza flick based on a book by popular romance novelist Tomiko Miyao. Set in 1932, the film centers on Peony...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yoko Minamino

Coinciding with the LDP presidential election of the entire national public, a masterpiece depicting the reverse side of Showa political history...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hisaya Morishige