Jushiro Kobayashi

The first half of the movie depicts a man's jealousy of his best friend and the woman he love. The second part depicts a hero who is ready to put the...

Genre: History

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

It is a historical drama that follows Katsu Kaishu's efforts to surrender Edo Castle bloodlessly in the first year of the Meiji period.

Genre: History

Cast: Tsumasaburō Bandō

The second film in the "Suruga yukyoden" series, in which Shintaro Katsu plays Jirocho Shimizu. The film features Omasa, Komasa, Ocho, who will...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

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Cast: Hibari Misora

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Cast: Ken Takakura

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Cast: Joji Takagi

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Cast: Kanjūrō Arashi

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Cast: Bandō Jusaburō III

1956 Japanese film, originally released in two parts.

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Cast: Hiroshi Nawa

Two rival gangs of gangsters clash for dominance of a neighborhood.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

A disgraced yakuza member, framed for the murder of his boss, emerges from prison eight years later with revenge on his mind.

Genre: Action

Cast: Tsunehiko Watase

A mournful masterpiece by Kinugasa Teinosuke

Genre: History

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

"Tomorrow is Another Day" tells the story of three brothers who struggle to shake free of the father's ties to the yakuza underworld. A star vehicle...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

A hard-working section chief, fast approaching retirement and beset by stress from all directions, joins a jazz band and reignites his youthful...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Hajime Hana

Aboard a ship connecting Kyoto and Osaka, Osan was pickpocketed by a sham blind biwa player. A man who looked like a merchant retrieved the wallet...

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Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Around the Genroku era, there was a man named Saotome Shusui-no-Suke, nephew to the senior councilor Matsudaira Sakon Shogen. He was commonly known...

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Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

During the end of the shogunate, there was a group of black-clothed masked samurai known as the "Crow Squad" who resisted the shogunate's oppression,...

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Cast: Kōkichi Takada

Hatamoto Akabane Tanaka once ruined his life with alcohol in his youth, leaving behind his wife and son, Hanji, to embark on a journey. He killed a...

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Cast: Kōkichi Takada

Writer Jippensha Ikku hears Tsutaya Juzaburo, a wholesaler of picture books, mutter on his deathbed, "Where has Sharaku gone?" He begins to figure...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kei Satō

A young doctor discovers that the city hall of records has a record of his death. He and some friends try to seek out the person who reported it, and...

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Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

The masked avenger Kurama Tengu is linked to a plot to bring down the Tokugawa shogunate, but is it really our hero, or an imposter?

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kanjūrō Arashi

Police detective Heiji is assigned to catch the masked Maboroshi gang of robbers who have terrorized all of Edo leaving few clues as to who their...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Masked avenger Kurama Tengu and his young sidekick try to stop a mysterious adversary from assassinating a group of young warriors who want to bring...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kanjūrō Arashi

Japanese war film.

Genre: War

Cast: Shigeru Amachi

This is the second film in the popular black and white series about the master swordsman, Yagyu Jubei. When the Yagyu clan falls victim to rival...

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Cast: Jūshirō Konoe

Japanese comedy film.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tōru Yuri

Japanese drama film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

Japanese film.

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Cast: Michitarō Mizushima

Japanese film.

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Cast: Yataro Kurokawa

Japanese film.

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Cast: Kanjūrō Arashi

In 1941, overpopulated Japan faces an economic boycott and its armed forces push further to the south. And despite negotiations between Japan and the...

Genre: War

Cast: Kanjūrō Arashi

Made after Takechi had won an obscenity trial over Black Snow (1965), the film has been called "Takechi's personal message to Eirin."

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tamawa Karina

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Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

A poignant entertainment epic about a righteous mountain man, a young company director with new ideals, and a beautiful woman with wild charm, whose...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Michitarō Mizushima

The sequel to the 1935 film Great Bodhisattva Pass

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Cast: Fujiko Fukamizu

In a warehouse area at night, a drunk chief engineer is stabbed to death by someone who whistles. After the break of dawn, two seamen join the crew...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

For the poor, Edo is Hell on Earth, starving under the rule of Tanuma Okitsugi, corrupt councilor to the shogun. But the courageous vagabond called...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kanjūrō Arashi

Ise, a successful entrepreneur, accidentally murders his lunatic wife after he is spotted having an affair with his secretary, Harumi. In his attempt...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

A romantic adventure tale about a young guy working on a whale-hunting vessel and his love for a childhood sweetheart.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Hachiro Kasuga

An early fantasy film starring Tomisaburô Wakayama.

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Tomiemon Otomo

Japanese drama film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Junko Fuji returns as Oryu the Red Peony, a wandering female yakuza on a soul-searching journey after the death of her father. After collecting her...

Genre: Action

Cast: Sumiko Fuji

Jeom-yong Kim (Pyeong Wang) is a train conductor who wants to drive a military train. Won-jin (Eun-gi Dog) is his best friend and both live together....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mun Ye-bong

This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jusaburo Bando

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Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Period film from 1934.

Genre: History

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

A Tokugawa Daimyo rebels against an his lord after the battle of Sekigahara. Samurai Matabei, a famous spear fighter and warrior, is a vassal of lord...

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Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

A good young man accidentally joins a group of leg breakers

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroyuki Nagato

After Ryusaku Nishikawa and his girlfriend Katsuko are attacked by a gang, he trains in karate to seek revenge. Years later, Ryusaku is a skilled...

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Cast: Akihiko Hirata

After Ryusaku Nishikawa and his girlfriend Katsuko are attacked by a gang, he trains in karate to seek revenge. Years later, Ryusaku is a skilled...

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Cast: Akihiko Hirata

A group of pirates led by the evil Gondaiyu and his wizard, Genkuro, capture the Golden Peacock Castle and massacre the peaceful clan that lives...

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Cast: Sawamura Sōjūrō IX

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Cast: Hideo Murata

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Cast: Tetsuro Tamba