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Warlord Oda Nobunaga seeks to unite a fractured Japan. A young man trained in the arts of ninjitsu is manipulated by a ninja master into attempting...
Ninja, A Band of Assassins
In Edo Japan, a kabuki actor seeks revenge against the three men who drove his parents to their deaths years ago.
An Actor's Revenge
Ichi travels to the village of Itakura to pay his respects at the grave of Kichizo, a man he killed two years ago. When some tax money is stolen...
Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold
A middle-aged husband of a younger woman finds her youth intimidating to the point that he cannot become aroused. His solution involves the...
Odd Obsession
Eiko seeks out Miyoharu, a geisha, and asks to be her apprentice. When she is ready to receive clients, both women want the right to refuse certain...
A Geisha
Yukiko's fiance learns her mother runs a geisha house and ends their engagement. She despises what her mother does until one of her clients shows...
The Woman in the Rumor
Returning to the village where a year before he had killed Hirate, a much-admired opponent, Zatoichi encounters another swordsman and former rival in...
The Tale of Zatoichi Continues
[Period covered: 1582-1594]. As the film opens, the warlod Nobunaga Oda rides to Iga Ayanokuni shrine. He is asked if he thinks he has destroyed all...
Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance
Zatoichi's trek through 88 temples to atone for his violent past is interrupted as he stumbles into a village terrorized by a violent yakuza boss.
Zatoichi's Pilgrimage
A former soldier, reduced to working at a restaurant post-war, becomes a contract killer for the yakuza gangs he's in contact with.
A Certain Killer
Nemuri Kyoshiro, a youthful and cynical ronin with unparalleled skill, is approached by both sides in a game of corruption, ambition, and double...
Sleepy Eyes of Death 1: The Chinese Jade
A decapitation at the hands of the shogun's monstrous misbegotten son kicks off the action and draws nomadic Nemuri Kyoshiro (Raizô Ichikawa)...
Sleepy Eyes of Death 3: Full Circle Killing
Hanpei is a gentle young samurai that loves flowers. One day, he witnesses an old man's quick draw of the sword. He is so impressed that he becomes...
Sword Devil
Learning of his family's collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the Golden Pavilion, must endure acute psychological...
Conflagration
As winds of change sweep Japan, an honest man joins the Shinsengumi out of admiration for its leader, and because he wants to live and die as a...
Shinsengumi Chronicles
Offering a caustic immersion into the lives of disaffected junior high students on the cusp of adulthood, the film takes place over the five-day...
Typhoon Club
Two amiable samurai wind up on opposite sides of the vendetta between Lord Asano's retainers and the family of Lord Kira that led to the famous...
Samurai Vendetta
Karate master and anti-drug vigilante Chiba returns to his home in Japan, where he holds a press conference announcing his intention to wipe out the...
The Bodyguard
One murky night, Soetsu, a blind acupuncturist and money lender, calls on Shinzaemon Fukami, a Hatamoto samurai, to collect some money. But Fukami is...
Masseur’s Curse
[Period covered: 1614-1615] 4th film in the shinobi no mono series Tokugawa Ieyasu is now the ruler of all Japan. But one last loose thread must be...
Shinobi no Mono 4: Siege
Akira Inugami is the only survivor of a clan of ancient werewolves who relies on his supernatural powers to solve mysterious crimes. After a series...
Wolf Guy
Oh Wonderful Utamaro!
A hulking man from the country pursues his beloved to the underworld of Tokyo nightclubs, where he finds work as a sideshow wrestler and becomes...
Luminous Woman
A giant stone statue comes to life to protect the residents of a small town against the depradations of an evil warlord.
Daimajin
In medieval Japan, a woman and his children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was exiled years before.
Sansho the Bailiff
When the wife of a 17th century Kyoto scroll-maker is falsely accused of having an affair with his best employee, the pair flee the city and find...
The Crucified Lovers
Bakyo is a talented but unsuccessful rakugo artist. The very successful Rokyu wants to take Bakyo under his wings, but Bakyo refuses, claiming that...
Song of the Devil
Japan, 1159. Moritō, a brave samurai, performs a heroic act by rescuing the lovely Kesa during a violent uprising. Moritō falls in love...
Gate of Hell
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
Jewel thieves become interested in an invisibility formula invented by Professor Nakazato and want to use his invention to acquire a diamond necklace...
The Invisible Man Appears
Based on a novel by Tsutomu Mizukami, this haunting melodrama focuses on a young bamboo worker who takes his father's prostitute as his wife.
Bamboo Doll of Echizen
[Period covered: 1595-1600] Third film in the famous shinobi no mono series. We last saw ninja Ishikawa Goemon (Raizo Ichikawa), as he was about to...
Shinobi no Mono 3: Resurrection
Two women are ferried to a small prison colony on the remote and barren prison island, where they and their fellow inmates are forced to perform...
Island of Horrors
In this first film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, adapted from the manga by Kazuo Koike, we are told the story of the Lone Wolf and Cub's origin....
Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance
Itinerant masseur and master swordsman, the blind Zatoichi, is near the village of his teacher, Hikonoichi, so he decides to visit. He learns of...
Zatoichi's Revenge
Sixth film in the series. A little boy who just wants to be a carpenter is at the center of a plot that might topple -- or save -- a mighty Clan,...
Sleepy Eyes of Death 6: Sword of Satan
The film portrays a satirical view of today's heartless money-oriented society.
The Funeral Racket
[Period covered: 1616] Kirigakure Saizo (Mist Saizo) returns for the final time as he sets out to assassinate Tokugawa Ieyasu in order to avenge the...
Shinobi no mono 7: Mist Saizo Strikes Back
[Period covered: 1616] On May 8th, 1615 the summer campaign of Osaka has reached the climax. This film takes place immediately following 'Ninja 4:...
Shinobi No Mono 5: Return of Mist Saizo
A self-destructive man becomes a powerful member of the Japanese mafia but quickly loses his self control. Based on the true story of Rikio Ishikawa.
Graveyard of Honor
It is brother against brother in this tale of love and betrayal within the famed Yagyu clan. In one of their earliest films together, superstars...
Hidden Story of the Yagyu Clan
In the mountain regions of Hida, the dreams of a peasant named Kyonosuke, who longed to be a samurai, come true when he becomes one of three doubles,...
The Third Shadow Warrior
The Dai-bosatsu toge trilogy is based on Kaizan Nakazato's unfinished long series of novels (41 books, written from 1913 to 1941). Set in the last...
Satan's Sword
Zatoichi makes friends with a dangerous chess player, while fending off angry yakuza and bloodthirsty relatives out for revenge, and trying to save a...
Zatoichi and the Chess Expert
The son of an executioner and the assassin he loved yet murdered learns of his origins, leaving his foster parents to avenge his mother's death.
Destiny's Son
The further adventures of Takeshi Nanjo, the Young Boss.
Young Boss: Prison Release
Reprising his role from the popular TV series "Koya no Suronin" (The Lowly Ronin), Mifune Toshiro stars in this full-length, stand-alone made for TV...
Lowly Ronin
Can a sinful man change and find peace? It's unlikely in gang-plagued Japan. Jokichi of Mikogami, a drifter (and hired sword), goes straight after...
The Trail of Blood
Ronin samurai Ibuki-san enters a town and sells his skills to the warring families. He falls in love with the beautiful horse stable owner but like...
Bloody Shuriken
In the fourth film of series, Secret Assignment, Raizo again plays the Jiro Shiina. This time he's out to discover who is spying for the British in...
Secret Assignment
A sequel to the popular "The School of Spies", this film continues the adventures of one of the graduates who is assigned to crack a powerful spy...
Assignment Cloud
During the 1200's, legendary Buddhist monk Nichiren returns from his studies to lead Japan out of moral crisis and prepare to fight Mongol invaders...
Nichiren and the Great Mongol Invasion
Well before “Shogun” as warring clans were fighting for power throughout Japan, a Portuguese vessel ran aground off Tanegashima. Lord...
The Saga of Tanegashima
Blind swordsman/masseuse Zatoichi befriends a young woman returning home with her baby. When gangsters mistake her for Zatoichi and kill her,...
Fight, Zatoichi, Fight
The disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with general anaesthetic, and the women in his life who are both so determined...
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
Satoko is a mistress by trade or fate: when her master, the silkscreen artist of the Kohoan Temple in Kyoto, dies, she is given to the temple's...
The Temple of Wild Geese
Japan, 1643, as the Kato clan of Aizu falls from power two brave samurai will settle a dispute in the time-honored tradition of their clan, by...
Scars of Honor
Isazo is a traveling gambler and living legend in the world of yakuza, known for his swordsmanship and bravery, his impeccable manners, and his...
Lone Wolf Isazo
[Period Covered: 1570-1573] Towards the end of the Tenmon Era, Shogun Ashikaga`s powers were weakening by the day and many were there who planned to...
Shinobi no mono 8: The Three Enemies
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 greedy developer, in league with a corrupt Shrine Magistrate, brutally tries to drive people out of a tenement building and destroy the shrine in...
Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters
A fugitive christian "saint" (female, of course!) and a sadistic drug-addled princess both have their eye on Kyoshiro. The fact that a bunch of...
Sleepy Eyes of Death 4: Sword of Seduction
Fifth film in the series. When Kyoshiro, in a moment of weakness, saves the life of a woman being attacked on the road, he quickly finds himself...
Sleepy Eyes of Death 5: Sword of Fire
Early film directed by Kenji Misumi.
Gonpachi
Film directed by Kenji Misumi.
Gambler and the Princess
The Lord Pretends
It is the first Toei yakuza film directed by Akinori Matsuo, who was active in Nikkatsu action movies. It is a local yakuza movie made following...
Gambling Code and Feuds
This is the story of a blind masseur who tricks people, steals, and kills; he is the anti-Zatoichi
The Blind Menace
The Fencing Master tells the story of a man trying to survive as the only world he knows is becoming increasingly irrelevant. Danpei Ichikawa lives...
The Fencing Master
Story about a gambler who gets involved in a struggle between companies.
The Angry Sword
19th century Japan, at the end of the Edo period. A samurai falls in love with a young woman while taking up arms to overthrow the local shogunate.
Maiko and the Assassin
A father decides to put his delinquent daughter into a temple in Kyoto known for its austere novitiate. Initially resistant to all forms of...
The Virgin Witness
The Son of the Black Mass returns in this ninth installment in Daiei's longstanding Nemuri Kyoshiro series. This time Raizo Ichikawa as Nemuri is...
Sleepy Eyes of Death 9: Trail of Traps
The Shinobi-no-Mono series was so successful that Daiei Studios dipped into the well one more time, making the best 60′s B&W ninja movie...
Mission: Iron Castle
Ichikawa Raizo’s last film. He plays a Yakuza enforcer who kills a man on his boss's orders. He’s then sent to a provincial town to lie...
Sworn Brothers
Fascinated with women from an early age, Yonosuke had his first sexual encounter at the age of seven. From that day on, he recklessly and forwardly...
A Lustful Man
The titular "tarantula" is a murderous woman who, along with the brother who is in love with her, kill without warrant because they are wealthy &...
Sleepy Eyes of Death 11: In the Spider's Lair
A Japanese drama featuring the one-eyed, one-armed swordsman
Sazen Tange: The Monkey Pot
After being cruelly set up and deceived by Sugimi, a detective in cohorts with the mob with whom she was whole-heartedly in love, Matsushima’s...
Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion
A musical about the escapades of some tanuki passing themselves off as humans in human society.
Vagabonds from Badgerville
Sentaro is been severely beaten for his defiance of the government and the high taxes during a time of famine. He is befriended by Kada Gentaro, a...
Blood End
As a child, Okin the one-armed one-eyed swordswoman was disfigured by Lord Daizen-dayu, who was after her family's most treasured possession, the...
Lefty Fencer
After a yakuza boss is assassinated by a rival, his naval officer son returns home to take over the gang.
Young Boss
When a local gambling house kidnaps some peasants because they failed to pay their debts, a rival gambling house pays their debts and sets them free.
Zatoichi the Outlaw
Inspector General Kanjuro Sano conspires with the future shogun twin brother. They replace Ieyoshi Tokugawa with his twin, but it becomes a problem...
Sleepy Eyes of Death 13: The Full Moon Swordsman
Ishimatsu of Mori, from his early days leading up to his joining with Shimizu Jirocho, Boss of the Tokaido where he made his mark in history through...
Ishimatsu - The One-Eyed Swordsman
Raizô Ichikawa reprises his role as the restaurant-cook-turned-contract-killer in this sequel to Kazuo Mori's stylish 1967 thriller A Certain...
A Killer's Key
Getting an opportunity to meet with another half-Caucasian swordsman, Kyoshiro finds himself involved in a series of dangerous encounters.
Sleepy Eyes Of Death 14: Fylfot Swordplay
Monjiro, reunited with his long lost sister, is pursued by a yakuza gang because he killed their boss. He also meets a fellow gambler who idolizes...
Kogarashi Monjiro 2: Secret of Monjiro's Birth
A naively honorable samurai comes to the bitter realization that his devotion to moral samurai principles makes him an oddity among his peers, and a...
The Betrayal
In 1905, Japan was seriously threatened in the Russo-Japanese War. Japan determined a decisive attack on Russia to end the war. A reconnaissance...
Advance Patrol
The story of Sasaki Kojiro, a young swordsman, and his quest to train under master Seigen and develop his own style.
Kojiro's Turning Swallow Cut
When a rebellious roughneck enlists in the Navy and goes on a rampage against his superiors, he is sent to the Yokosuka Naval Prison.
Yokosuka Navy Prison
Zatoichi is forced to kill a young man who owes a debt to a yakuza boss. Moments later, his sister Osode arrives with the money she earned...
Samaritan Zatoichi
A poor peasant, after years of scraping, becomes a rich and powerful Osaka merchant. Mizoguchi Kenji's final project; he died before completing it...
An Osaka Story
In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearby village, in defiance of a local...
Ugetsu
It’s cross and double-cross in these further adventures of Ryuzen, the wayward priest played by Katsu Shintaro as he tries to help a woman who...
Hoodlum Priest And The Gold Mint
Bad Reputation: The Notorious Harbor
Bad Reputation: The Notorious Men and Their Specialty
Zatoichi comes upon a dying man who asks him to give a bag of money to "Taichi". Zatoichi has no idea who this is but when he comes upon a small town...
Zatoichi's Vengeance
A young girl gets adopted by a family that holds her like a slave and is later freed by a young man working for the family's company. 10 years later,...
Lost Chapter of Snow: Passion
The Great White Tiger Platoon was part of the Aizu clan's last ditch efforts to stop the advance of Imperial troops after the fall of the Tokugawa...
The Great White Tiger Platoon
Wicked woman Ogin is a concubine of a powerful feudal lord Tayu. At first Ogin gains power by poisoning lawful wife of Tayu. To gain more power Ogin...
Naked Ambition
A story of childhood life during wartime Japan. Takeshi, the intelligent son of a fisherman, is the schoolyard bully. When his cousin comes to stay...
Takeshi: Childhood Days
Special Forces commander Captain Tadamori returns to Kyoto after successfully defeating the uprising of pirates in the western sea of Japan. But...
Taira Clan Saga
The shogun's vassal Harima Aoyama and a chamber maid are in love with each other, but they cannot be together due to a difference of their status....
A Samurai Never Tells a Lie
The Magistrate
The Dancer and Two Warriors
The Young Lord
Fighting Fire Fighter
Flowery Hood 2
Fighting Letter for 29 People
Princess Tsuki
Hanatarō Jumon
The 7th Secret Agent to Edo
Peony on the Skin
Yûrei koban
The Actress and the Three Rascals
The Gambling Samurai
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
The woman gambler Ginko risks her life for her brother-in-law.
The Woman Gambler's Iron Rule
From the pen of Yoshikawa Eiji comes this exciting story. The Naruto Strait separates Tokushima from the islands of Awaji and Honshu. On Tokushima...
Secret of Naruto
An abandoned temple in the mountains outside of the old capital city of Kyoto is the scene of a fated meeting between a traveling priest, two women,...
Devil's Temple
On the night of the summer Obon festival, Hagiwara Shinzaburo meets a beautiful courtesan named Otsuyu. Not knowing she's a ghost, he becomes...
The Bride from Hades
In the book of the world's greatest rogues, the number one man can only be one person.
The Thieves' Who's Who
Story of a Beloved Wife is an autobiographical work based on Shindo's first marriage. Jūkichi Uno stars as a struggling screenwriter, and Nobuko...
Story of a Beloved Wife
Nezumi Kozō is the nickname of Nakamura Jirokichi, a Japanese thief and folk hero who lived in Edo during the Edo period. His exploits have been...
Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi
Dianas of the Campus
A Japanese bullet train is threatened with a bomb that will explode automatically if the train slows below 80 km/h, unless a ransom is paid. Police...
The Bullet Train
In the third film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto volunteers to be tortured by Yakuza to save a prostitute and is hired by their leader...
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades
The East Asian Acrobatic circus enjoys popularity after welcoming the Asuka brothers, two prestigious trapeze acrobats. One day, one of the brothers...
The Man Who Laughs Last
The Motherland Far Far Away
Jida-geki by Santaro Marune.
Goblin Courier
A traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival.
Night Butterflies
Megitsune Buro
In Kyoto a young kimono maker with traditional ideas gets involved with a married professor.
Night River
The second film in the "Suruga yukyoden" series, in which Shintaro Katsu plays Jirocho Shimizu. The film features Omasa, Komasa, Ocho, who will...
The Life of a Chivalrous Man in Suruga: Broken Swords
Sixteen people are to stay at a desolate country station. Since a train accident during the war, a ghost train has been coming there at midnight. And...
Ghost Train
Ken ni kakeru
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 - The Chivalrous
Ojo-kichiza
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
Song of Love
Judge of the Ashuras
Tai Kato’s early 20th century set yakuza epic about an ordinary merchant girl (Hiroko Maki) who crosses paths with an assassin (Tetsuya...
The Blossom and the Sword
The film is set in Kyoto at the end of the Tokugawa period, when there is a fierce clash between the supporters of the Emperor, who are fighting for...
New Tengu from Mount Kurama
Nagasaki at the end of the Edo period had the taste of a criminal paradise, where, despite the exotic, dangerous work was always in demand. Here,...
Assassins for sale
Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overbearing mother and grandmother to give...
Bonchi
駿河遊侠傳 賭場荒し
Abare inu is a 1965 action-comedy film directed by Kazuo Mori. It is the fourth film in the series.
Rampaging Dog
Quick Drawer Dog (早射ち犬 Hayauchi inu) is a 1967 film directed by Tetsutarō Murano. It is the eighth film in the Inu...
Quick-Draw Dog
風来物語 あばれ飛車
Fourth film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka
Thirty-three footprints
This film stars Tanaka Kinuyo as the mother of the heir to the Hosho name, a famous lineage of Noh actors. The heir, Hosho Yagoro, is played by...
An Heir's Place
An intellectual couple in a staid and tedious marriage are surprised when the wife’s niece, who has run away from home, turns up unexpectedly...
This Way, That Way
Saotome Mondonosuke is Hatamoto (a high-class warrior who is allowed to see the Shogun in person) who has a crescent-moon-shaped scar on his forehead...
The Bored Samurai
Yataro’s Travel Hat
The film won 1959 Blue Ribbon Awards for best actor Raizo Ichikawa and for best cinematography Kazuo Miyagawa. The film also won 1959 Kinema Junpo...
The Gay Masquerade
Wishing to find peace, Zatoichi travels to his old village but only finds trouble when he ends up in a love triangle and finds old scores have...
New Tale of Zatoichi
The swordsman again crosses paths with the murderous Devil Mask Gang -- who as the name suggests, all wear hideous devil masks.
Akado Suzunosuke vs. the Devil in Crescent Moon Tower
A small-town boy with a learning disability attempts to fit in with his classmates.
Children Hand in Hand
When a nobleman finds a woman to be an obstacle to his growing political influence, he kills her and her cat and has their bodies immured in a wall....
The Ghost-Cat Cursed Wall
Asataro the Crow
1962 Japanese movie
鉄砲安の生涯
新 鞍馬天狗 五條坂の決闘
The Notorious Man's Return
In feudal Japan, gangsters chase a young girl who might testify against their boss. When the gangsters murder the girl's grandfather on sacred...
Yokai Monsters: Along with Ghosts
Shortly after the Meiji Restoration, young people devoted to the teachings of Saigo Takamori trained day and night at Seiyun Juku in Kagoshima,...
The tragedy of a young warrior
Otemoyan
A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed wherever she goes, even as the modern world imposes change around her.
Ballad of Orin
Adaptation of a famous Kyouka Izumi novel. Set in the early 1900's, it tells the story of the impossible love between a young scholar a beautiful...
Her Hidden Past
Hoodlum Soldier on the Attack
Hoodlum Soldier's Flight to Freedom
Hoodlum Soldier: Looting and Pillaging
Kumo no Yuna
Sōran wataridori
Nokosa reta ko tonoko shita haha to
The hairpin murdered a young girl. Detective Zenigata Heiji begin to investigate. Suddenly a murder case turns into a case of smuggling.
The Casebooks of Zenigata Heiji: The Beautiful Shark
A Bullet Hole Underground
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
Erotic drama
The Woman
A group of one-hit wonder scam artists led by the troubled "Kanpai," dealing with impotence, embark on a lively and poignant societal comedy. They...
Gokudô Petenshi
Daiei Film Company's three biggest stars shine in this exciting story about Vice-Shogun Mito Komon's journey to the land of the Ainu. As the shogun's...
Mito Komon’s Journey to Ezo
1958 Japanese movie
Shogun's Holiday
Yasuda plays Omon, a woman using bamboo leaves as darts/blades to disable and kill her enemies.
Girl with Bamboo Leaves
Hell's Assassin
A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly.
Life of Matsu the Untamed
Retired police inspector Kurusu is vacationing at a seaside hotel when one night he hears a child's screaming...but there are no children staying in...
The Devil's toast
A samurai is struggling to make ends meet at the end of the Edo period. He has students and, among other things, teaches them about the evils of the...
Daikichi Konomura
Sudden Attack of the Christian Lord