Yoshirō Aoki

Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Michiyo Aratama

A real all-star cast turns out for this modern yakuza yarn.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

The story of three brothers who, after loosing their parents in the Great Kanto Earthquake, continued their respective yakuza family business and the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

The chimpira 'Katsuichi' got his hands on the only daughter of the largest daughter in the Kanto region.

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Cast: Show Aikawa

A man falls in love with a man with his spiritual past.

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Cast: Riki Takeuchi

Former policeman Matsushita Hiroshi is a professional marksman shootist. When his keen eye catches his target in the dry urban darkness, the hard,...

Genre: Action

Cast: Toru Nakamura

In 1943 Japan is facing defeat. This makes Shinkichi, a straight, selfless student-patriot, ever more restless. He can no longer stand his soft...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryotaro Sugi

Genre: Action

Cast: Tetsuya Watari

This is the story of a vagrant samurai – the solitary, savage and scrupulous Kiba – who arrives at a village to defend a beautiful, blind...

Genre: Action

Cast: Isao Natsuyagi

Kiba Okaminosuke finds himself entangled with a group of prisoners being transported to their executions, one of whom oddly looks exactly like his...

Genre: Action

Cast: Isao Natsuyagi

The fifth installment of the Gokudo Action Series, which depicts the process of the yakuza organization walking on the path to national domination,...

Genre: Action

Cast: Show Aikawa

The great Daimyo enlists the aid of the three Shadow Hunters in ensuring the delivery of an illegal cannon in this sequel to Toshio Masuda's bloody...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

Post World War II, Minoru lives by selling supplies that had been stolen from the U.S. military. One day, he is arrested due to the plotting of...

Genre: Action

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

After a woman is framed for the murder of her fisherman husband, she seeks out a bloody revenge on the corrupt businessmen responsible.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Mari Shirato

The Taisho era was a time of turbulence in Japan. From new marks of modernity to full-blown riots, a sense of revolution filled the air. The Dam Dam...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yoko Takahashi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yūzō Kayama

In a small town on the Kasumigaura coast in the early Showa period, the Masukawa clan from Tokyo is trying to take away the interests of the local...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Chieko Matsubara

Four years ago, Teppei Hondo killed two people from the Shinwa group for the murder of his brother. After serving a 3-year prison sentence, he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tetsuya Watari

A 1967 crime film

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tetsuro Tamba

The third movie in Tōru Murakawa's Game trilogy about a hitman. Narumi is set up by a mysterious woman. Abducted and tortured, Narumi is forced to...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Yūsaku Matsuda

Second movie in the Sakura Code series.

Genre: Action

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

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Cast: Riki Takeuchi

A parable about the inefficiency and anachronism of the Japanese educational system, which places an unusually large amount of importance on cramming...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Shigeru Yamamoto

In a match where professional baseball referee Yuzo Tagami was observing a young referee, Hara, a player who got angry at the indecisive judge,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

In 1943, critical developments in the Pacific War have placed Japan at a disadvantage, although the fiery breaths of war hadn't yet reached Okinawa...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

A young man returns home from the bar only to find a woman who was about to kill herself. Taking her home and protecting her, he learns that...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yuki Kazamatsuri

Rumors are circulating that the shogunate is losing control of some feudal domains. Lord Yagyu Munefuyu is assigned to deal with the problem and the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yoshirō Aoki

After a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he recounts his gruesome family history which saw generations of his ancestors suffer and...

Genre: History

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

A street war breaks loose between two rival gangs in the Kansai region of Japan. Goro is in the middle of action. Through a knife fight against Sueo,...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tetsuya Watari

Okawa Hashizo is 'Red Peony' Hanji who is thrown into a prison cell where he gets involved in a plot to steal government gold from the Shogun's...

Genre: Action

Cast: Hashizo Okawa

When Keiji Takama returns to Nagasaki, he finds many changes. The rights of the entertainment field that had been held by his family have been taken...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tetsuya Watari

Shiba, a wandering ronin, encounters a band of peasants who have kidnapped the daughter of their dictatorial magistrate, in hopes of coercing from...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tetsuro Tamba

Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, Kaji witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts...

Genre: War

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

Masuda Toshio film starring Watari Tetsuya and Mori Masayuki, about a lone-wolf type (Watari) seeking love and defending the honor of an elderly...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tetsuya Watari

The story of five easygoing Yakuza who come together to save the live of a young innocent girl, Oichi, from an evil vassal.

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Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

A young outlaw can’t escape his rebellious past despite connections to a well to do family.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshio Harada

The disbandment of the Tanno clan left gang member Tetsu to stray from the crime family's fold. He roamed the streets as a one man band, wearing a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yoshio Harada

Hanamura, widely known in gangland a professional trouble shooter has the sign of the Jack tattooed on his chest. His follower is his sworn partner...

Genre: Action

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

A policeman is murdered and his gun, stolen, used to commit the next crime. Detective Kashiwagi, who is leading the investigation, learns that the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yūsaku Matsuda

The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. The husband and his samurai father must decide whether to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

After saving a young Lord from an assassination attempt the Lowly Ronin finds that he is now a wanted man! Accused of being a thief by those that...

Genre: Action

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Accused of being a spy for a rival clan by Nanbu Clan samurai who then attack him, the 'Lowly Ronin' barely escapes with his life after being shot. ...

Genre: Action

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Rivalry between two young gangster groups who seek to extend their influence.

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Cast: Tetsuya Watari

Misawa Ihei (Nagato) is traveling with his wife Tae (Iwashita Shima) who abhors the practice of sword fighting for prize money. Tae is the daughter...

Genre: Action

Cast: Isamu Nagato

Young Lord Takenaka stands to succeed his father until a series of violent actions lead his retainers to think that he has gone mad with blood-lust. ...

Genre: Action

Cast: Isamu Nagato

The lord of the Oshi fief is killed by his trespassing neighbour, the cruel and despotic Nariatsu, son of the former Shogun. After an investigation,...

Genre: Action

Cast: Isao Natsuyagi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshiyuki Nagashima

Young man returns from prison and sets out to destroy the gang that killed his friends and boss of his former gang.

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Cast: Tetsuya Watari

Depicts the bloody siege of the fortress of Port Arthur, one of the most strongly fortified positions in the world, during the Russo-Japanese War of...

Genre: War

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tetsuya Watari

Story of three people, a barber, a Christian and a graduate of the Tokyo Military Academy during the 2nd World War.

Genre: War

Cast: Tetsuro Tamba

After serving 10 years in prison for murdering a rival boss, Tetsu is appalled to see his yakuza family overgrown and dysfunctional upon his release.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

Dramatic story of one man trying to make a difference.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tetsuro Tamba

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemployed, and with no family, he hopes to find a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

Asakura was told he could leave the gang if he killed Takahata, but he failed and was sentenced to two years. When he was released, the Oyane group...

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Cast: Tetsuya Watari

Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But Shinji has a rival for Hatsue's affections, Yasuo....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Momoe Yamaguchi

Remake of Kurosawa's films Sanshiro Sugata and Sanshiro Sugata part 2. A young man, Sanshiro Sugata, troubled by personal problems, takes up judo....

Genre: Action

Cast: Yūzō Kayama

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Cast: Shōhei Hino

Kazama and three others defeated Yoshie Sangyo, but the Nishio group was disbanded due to public pressure, and the territory belonged to the Hirata...

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Cast: Tetsuya Watari

Detective Nishina Sosuke, the director of the Metropolitan Police Department's Investigation Division 1, is suddenly attacked by a trio of men at his...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tsunehiko Watase

1972 Japanese movie

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Cast: Pete Mac, Jr.