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A lowly drunken samurai finds an abandoned baby in the woods and takes it home. A gift from a fox. But there's something special about the boy.
A Baby Given by a Fox
The Phantom Samurai
Lord Mito Mitsukuni, the vice-shogun of the whole country, left the family estate and went on a trip to various provinces with his students...
Travels of Lord Mito
The exciting story of Jirocho and his yakuza gang that controlled the area of the Tokaido during the latter days of the samurai era. Awesome...
Jirocho Fuji 2: The Chivalrous
A Man from Akagi
Meiji no kyōdai
Trouble Over Swords and Women: A Woman's Mind
film directed by Tai Katô
Trouble Over Swords and Women: Sword Light and Shooting Star
Otemoyan
Japan, 1860. The men of the Mito clan, victims of the Ansei purge, anxiously prowl around the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle with the intention of...
Samurai Assassin
The film takes place at the junction of the two eras of Meiji and Taisho. Sakata Sankichi, an uneducated zori sandal maker, becomes a professional...
The King
Adaptation of the novel by Osaragi Jirō.
Mito Kômon: Rai Kunitsugu no maki
Film about Ghost-Cat.
Monsters Catcher Oedo Seven Changes
In 1842, in the Umemoku Mansion within Hikone Castle, Naosuke Ii, despite the tumultuous times, was engrossed in the world of tea ceremony. His...
Hana no shôgai
Chikuzen, a ronin named Yoh Daisuke, after pacifying some ruffians at the theater of Onna-Kata Ogino Sawanojiki, formed a bond with the theater's...
慶安水滸傳
In the town of Izu known for its hot springs, Den Shichi from Kuromon Town sets off for a healing trip with his companion, a bamboo craftsman with a...
Denshichi Torimonocho: Vampire Spider
In Marugame Domain of Shikoku, a low-ranking foot soldier named Tagami Genbachi was envied for marrying Tsuji, the most beautiful woman in the...
振袖釼法
Watanabe Kazuma and Kawai Matagorō from the Bizen Okayama Ikeda clan were close friends, but they inevitably became enemies after Matagorō...
荒木又右衛門
In the early Edo period, among the pirate ships that roamed the seas near Ryukyu and Korea, there was a ship called the Sueyoshi, led by a man known...
女と海賊
Fifth film in the 'Travels of Lord Mito' franchise.
Travels of Lord Mito Pt.5
The sequel to Daibosatsu tôge (1960) and the second of the trilogy follows the adventures of Ryunosuke Tsukue after he is blinded.
Satan's Sword: The Dragon God
Izayoi kaidō
Isshin Tasuke, a friend of Ōkubo Hikozōemon, the esteemed public arbitrator of the realm, saved the maid Onatsu from punishment after she...
大江戸出世双六
One night in Edo, a mysterious woman in a palanquin appeared at the moneylender Yamashiroya, revealing herself to a beautiful woman. She told the...
Denshichi Torimonocho: Female Fox Palanquin
In the eleventh year of the Tempō era, the Kawarazaki-za theater in Edo buzzed with excitement for a new production of "Kanjinchō" by...
流轉
風来物語 あばれ飛車
Directed by Daisuke Ito.
Kokusai Mitsuyudan
疾風愛憎峠
Shogi, a Japanese form of chess, is a game that requires skill and determination. When poor sandal-maker Sakata decides to pursue his dream of...
The Grand Master
Tange Sazen - Dai-ippen
1962 Japanese movie
Hell's Assassin
Long Swords of the Loyal Forty-Seven
Suronin Chuya
Adaptation of the novel by Osaragi Jirō. Again scripted by the legendary Yamanaka Sadao
Mito Komon - The Secret Letter
A story about Ômura Masujirô
Masujiro Omura
Mission Accomplished
1945 Japanese movie
東海水滸伝
Film directed by Tadashi Ashihara
Akagi no komori-uta
A quintessential example of the period "ghost cat" (bakeneko or kaibyo) movie, this was one of at least six such titles released by the studio Shinko...
The Ghost Cat and the Mysterious Shamisen
1947 Japanese movie
壮士劇場
Japanese film.
Jūrokumon karasudō: Sennin higan
A village struggles to survive when the nearby lake becomes barren of fish.
I Saw a Phantom Fish
Suzunosuke faces perhaps his wildest foes. This evil gang is lead by a one-eyed birdman and other demonic creatures.
Akado Suzunosuke vs. the Birdman with 3 Eyes
A lost film that tells a story of Jirokichi, a notorious thief
Jirokichi the Rat-Kid: Edo Reel Part 2
Jirokichi the Rat is a notorious thief. While on the run from the law, he discovers an unexpectedly honourable side of himself, and maybe some form...
Jirokichi the Rat-Kid: Edo Reel
A lost film telling a story of Jirokichi the Rat, a notorious thief
Jirokichi the Rat-Kid: The Journey
Utaji heard that her ex-lover Seijirou would get married to Ochiyo a daughter of Ise-ya. She murdered Ochiyo and took over the Ise-ya's shop with...
Obsessive Snake
The Lord Pretends
A Thousand Flying Cranes
This is the story of a blind masseur who tricks people, steals, and kills; he is the anti-Zatoichi
The Blind Menace
An Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six years in search of spiritual enlightenment. Siddartha...
Buddha
The second film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass.
Merciless Blade Part 2
Drama about a famous one-eyed, one-armed samurai swordsman of the middle of the Tokugawa period by the name of Tange Sazen. By chance, Tange gets an...
Tange Sazen
An early fantasy film starring Tomisaburô Wakayama.
Gyakushû Orochimaru
One of Japan's most popular stories is the tale of Kutsukake Tokijiro, a traveling gambler who finds that he must take care of the wife and child of...
The Gambler's Code
Based on Soseki Natsume’s 1908 novel of the same title, Poppy is an ornately complicated story of desire and ambition. Fujio is beautiful,...
Poppy
A Japanese silent film
Ōoka Cases Devil's Image - Part One
First part of the famous Dai-bosatsu toge trilogy, based on Kaizan Nakazato’s unfinished long series of novels (41 books, written from 1913 to...
Souls in the Moonlight
When a corrupt magistrate rapes Oshima, Masa (Raizō Ichikawa) avenges her by killing the officer, becoming thereby a fugitive, haunted and...
Seven Miles to Nakayama
A traveling gambler becomes duty-bound to the wife and child of the yakuza he had slain and desires to leave the criminal life for good. However,...
Kutsukake Tokijiro
Kayama Ichinoshin (Raizo Ichikawa) has been traveling for ten years in search of revenge for his father. One day, Ichinoshin reunites with his...
Flowers of Chivalry
Sentaro (Raizo Ichikawa) from Ipponmatsu sets out to commit evil and gain dignity, but his good-natured nature does not allow him to do anything bad....
Song of Sado
A 1946 Japanese film directed by Keigo Kimura.
Taki no shiraito
Migratory Birds of the Flowers
Koina no Ginpei
Directed by Daisuke Itō.
Chūshingura - Ninjō-hen; Fukushū-hen
Silent Japanese film.
Shinpan Ôoka seidan; Daisanpen: Kaikatsuhen
The head of Oshu, Harumichi Honma, was ordered by the boat bugyo (Commissioner of the board) Tajima Kuze to extract five gold coins to the Shogun...
Den nana torimono jō bijo koumori