Kenjirō Ishiyama

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

Genre: Action

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

In the midst of an attempt to take over his company, a powerhouse executive is hit with a huge ransom demand when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Coal miner Isamu Oba is forced to quit his village and leave his mother and siblings behind. Mining buddy Ichiro accompanies him to Tokyo, and the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ken Takakura

The film depicts the fate of a young yakuza boss and his father, who confront each other, not knowing that they are relatives, and become victims of...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

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.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Blind swordsman Zatoichi, jailed briefly, is implored by another prisoner to aid him in proving his innocence of a crime for which he is sentenced to...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

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: Miki Odagiri

In June 1941, Captain Kagawa (Ryutaro Tatsumi), who had just graduated from the military academy, was assigned as the captain of a sentry patrol in...

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Cast: Ryūtarō Tatsumi

Dr. Mikami is an elderly somewhat clumsy, very popular therapist, his patients turn to him with all possible and impossible questions. Because Dr....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenjirō Ishiyama

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yūzō Kayama

As the reputation of Sasaki Kojiro, who traveled through various provinces with his long sword seeking duels, began to spread, he was summoned by...

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Cast: Ryūtarō Tatsumi

Young widow Ine is suffering under the harsh treatment of her mother in law. As a former Geisha, Ine had struggled to be accepted into the...

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Cast: Hideko Takamine

At the end of the Edo period - On his way back after being invited by the three Mikados of Higashi Shirakawa, Kurama Tengu was attacked by the...

Genre: History

Cast: Shōgo Shimada

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshio Hosokawa

During the Taisho Period (early 1920's) a monastery of warrior monks was split apart between two factions. One of these factions was led by the Chief...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

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Cast: Eiji Funakoshi

As the post-war turmoil continued, Take, the boss of the waifs, stole the money of US soldiers and lived with friends. They were like children of...

Genre: Action

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

In the town of Yumoto, Asakichi, a left-arm-less gambler who had been winning at the gambling hall, was attracted by the sound of a faintly heard...

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Cast: Shōgo Shimada

The third part of the story about feudal boss Jirocho and his underlings.

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Cast: Koji Tsuruta

The continuing adventures of the Jirocho gang.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shōgo Shimada

Kunisada Tadaharu, a peasant of Kunisada Village in Joshu Sai County, could not stand the bad government and poor harvest of Takebe Genhan, the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryūtarō Tatsumi

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Cast: Hajime Hana

A story of young students trained to become Kamikaze pilots in World War II.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jirō Tamiya

In the prewar days leading up to the Second Sino-Japanese War of 1937, head flight instructor Lt. Katō Tateo of the Imperial Japanese Army-Air Corps...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Makoto Satō

Kogure, an industrial spy, is tasked by Sawada, head of the research department of the Nisshin Corporation, to learn the secrets of the design of a...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

Sasaki Kojiro tells the story of the genius who staked his love, glory, and life on a duel with the supreme master of the sword, Miyamoto Musashi...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yōko Tsukasa

Genre: Crime

Cast: Noboru Andō

Erotic Pinku film showcasing he life of Buddhist nuns during the Edo Period.

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Cast: Sumiko Fuji

Set in Osaka, during the devastated time of post-war Japan, this is a tale of the yakuza who set about rebuilding after the death of their Oyabun...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

The Ni Family is the most well know and respected group of firefighters in the Kanto region. When their leader dies and the successor disappears,...

Genre: Action

Cast: Sumiko Fuji

The seventh chapter of the stunning Hibotan Bakuto series. Many years have passed since Oryu the Red Peony began her soul-searching journey after her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sumiko Fuji

It is 1922 and Fumiko is a high school student. Her family is poor but she loves to study literature. Her father, a peddler, does not return home and...

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Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

One murky night, Soetsu, a blind acupuncturist and money lender, calls on Shinzaemon Fukami, a Hatamoto samurai, to collect some money. But Fukami is...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Teruo Ishiyama

A wandering gambler strolls into a village searching for his father's killer, unaware that the village is run by criminals who sell the poorest...

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Ryoma is a former military man who gets to know the leader of a yakuza group and begins to work with them, helping them defend themselves against...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ken Takakura

The first in what would become Toei's most successful, longest-running bosozoku film series. It lasted from 1968 till 1972 through sixteen films.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

[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...

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

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...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

As Japan joins in a political pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is appointed supreme commander of the Japanese...

Genre: War

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

In Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving nothing because fighting on the losing side, & then...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

Though he has come from a rough background on the streets, Muraki quickly rises through the ranks by means of his well-honed blackmailing instincts....

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

A series of short stories about bizarre crimes committed by females in the Meiji, Taisho, and Showa Eras. Discover 4 famous Japanese murderers:...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Teruo Yoshida

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Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

A beautiful hostess of a small restaurant moonlights as a well-trained assassin tasked with taking the life of a wealthy businessman...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kyōko Enami

Story about a gambler who gets involved in a struggle between companies.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

The Silk Hat Boss becomes involved in a car imports business during his trip to Atami.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

On a small island, inhabited by only fourteen hundred people, a young fisherman's son, Shinji falls in love with Hatsue, the daughter of the richest...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

A young boss proves his right to rule his gang.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

In 1936, under the war clouds over the Manchurian border, 60-year-old Shozaburo Oshima is concerned about the future of his only son, Ryuji, who has...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

Ninth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.

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Cast: Kyōko Enami

Bungo, fulfilling his duty as a yakuza, kills a man from a rival gang. Since then, he has escaped the clan's vengeance by staying on the road with...

Genre: Action

Cast: Sonny Chiba

Tsunetaro Asakura AKA "Dynamite Tsune" is a talented gambler, but not infallable. After losing his Boss's money in a dice game he repays his debt by...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

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...

Genre: Action

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Ninkyo with Kôji Tsuruta. An elderly yakuza brother tries to clear an underling’s name.

Genre: Action

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

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

5th entry in the Bakuchi-uchi series.

Genre: Action

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

An exciting tale of action on the distant northern island of Hokkaido around the beginning of the 20th Century starring two of the biggest names in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sumiko Fuji

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

Comedy of a phony doctor.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frankie Sakai

The Domain: Where The Blade Enters

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Cast: Ken Takakura

Genre: Action

Cast: Jirō Tamiya

Fukagawa's chef Ushimatsu of the restaurant Kawatake fell in love with a maid named Omame and changed dramatically. He stopped gambling and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shōgo Shimada

1965 youth / yakuza film

Genre: Crime

Cast: Muga Takewaki

1964 Japanese movie

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Cast: Matsumoto Hakuō II