Hiroshi Kato

Chuji and his family become the primary target of gangs in Nikko headed by Hasshu marshal Nakayama and boss Sukegoro Iioka. Chuji is then aided by...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

The sole survivor of a shipwreck pursues the whereabouts of his friends’ missing family members in Edo.

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Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Rampant ronin Matashiro Sasai, finds himself embroiled in serious unrest after he rescues a geisha who is being kidnapped by a group of ronin.

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Cast: Kōkichi Takada

Ronin Sasaki Kojiro pursues his ultimate goal of becoming a master swordsman. Along the way he encounters another great swordsman, Miyamoto Musashi.

Genre: History

Cast: Chiyonosuke Azuma

The action of this historical drama takes place against the background of poverty and hunger in the city of Edo and depicts young people rebelling...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masahiko Tsugawa

This most celebrated all-star movie version of the popular series features Tsukigata Ryunosuke as Mito Komon, the sage who wanders the countryside...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryūnosuke Tsukigata

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Cast: Koinosuke Onoe

Yagyu Jubei must protect the Yagyu scroll that holds the secret of the infamous assassination plotted by the Tokugawa government 30 years ago.

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Cast: Jūshirō Konoe

A dashing edition with fights , love, and laughter, in which the sorrows and joys of the guiltless world are colored by the guiltless travel crow,...

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Cast: Ryūji Shinagawa

Minoru delivered newspapers to earn money for high school, but when his mother came down with illness he decided to use this money for her doctor's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroshi Kato

Megastar Kataoka Chiezo is Vice-commander Hijikata Toshizo of the Shinsengumi in this realistic tale of Japan’s inner battles that led to the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Kinya Kitaoji

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Cast: Ryutaro Otomo

Based on the exploits of real-life historical character Magistrate Toyama no Kinsan, this exciting tale brings the “Demon Magistrate” as...

Genre: Action

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

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Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Kunisada Chuji is a common folk hero who looks out for poor people in the country who are at the mercy of corrupt officials. Intent on fulfilling a...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

The tale of real-life Yakuza boss Shimizu Jirocho is told from his earliest beginnings as a gambler on the road as he forms his gang and sets out on...

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Cast: Koji Tsuruta

The continuing adventures of the Jirocho gang.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

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Cast: Chiyonosuke Azuma

The second film about the adventures of Chosichiro Matsudaira. This time he fights against conspirators whose goal is to replace the 4th Shogun...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chiyonosuke Azuma

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

One of the most popular history-based characters is back when Magistrate Saemonojo Toyama no Kinsan investigates the tragic shipwreck of the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

This time, sword-saint Yagyu Jubei battles the evil corruption in Akizuki Village, with the help of his friend, a samurai named Matashichiro. This...

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Cast: Jūshirō Konoe

After an American Navy base is annihilated by a secret weapon, Agent OSS 117 is sent to Japan to investigate the organization that's claiming...

Genre: Action

Cast: Frederick Stafford

In the fifth installment, Yagyu Jubei must prove the innocence of his family who is suspected of conspiring to take Shogun's life.

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Cast: Jūshirō Konoe

Third part of Nihon Kyokakuden series is set in Kanto in 1924. Ken Takakura playing a ship's mate befriending fish shop owners harassed by yakuza.

Genre: Action

Cast: Ken Takakura

Sixth film in the "Kyodai Jingi" series. Three gangsters challenge an underworld group in northern Japan.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Saburo Kitajima

A young, feisty woman named Osome searches for her true love in the midst of a family crisis.

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Cast: Hibari Misora

The remake of Yoshikawa's novel continues with the second installment in which Takezo, soon to be Miyamoto Musashi, emerges from the Himeji Castle...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

The third chapter of the ‘Red Peony Gambler’ saga depicts the happiness and sadness of Red Peony Oryu’s life as she seals her...

Genre: Action

Cast: Sumiko Fuji

A cynical samurai is left as the sole survivor to fulfill a plot to assassinate the puppet of a villain intent on usurping the shogunate in the 17th...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tōru Abe

This is the second installment of the trilogy based on Japan’s greatest novel “The Great Bodhisattva Pass”, following the life and...

Genre: Action

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

The feud between two rival delivery companies, Kibamasa and Okiyama, heats up as the head of Kibamasa falls ill.

Genre: Action

Cast: Ken Takakura

Early pinku.

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Cast: Shingo Hosotani

First "Maboroshi tantei" film, based on the manga by Jiro Kuwata.

Genre: Action

Cast: Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi

Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He makes the best of his situation by performing...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frankie Sakai

Hanjiro, a one eyed vagrant arrives in Okinoshima to save the town from a violent Yakuza group with the help of six handicapped guys.

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Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Fifteen years after Ishida Mitsunari lost in the battle of Sekigahara, Tokugawa Ieyasu foresees his unavoidable battle with Toyotomi Hideyori and...

Genre: Action

Cast: Hashizo Okawa

The moment he's released from prison, the honorable gangster Miyamoto recovers the stolen diamonds he had stashed before getting pinched. When he...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Michitarō Mizushima

Nobuo is a hot-headed hoodlum fresh out of reform school who struggles to make a clean break with his tearaway past.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sachiko Hidari

A successful textile industrialist from the provinces, who is beloved by his employees for his kindness, cannot find a wife because of a disfiguring...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Upon his arrival to Dragon Island, ronin Yagi Hanzo, is propositioned by various shady individuals representing rival gangs to lend his services to...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Hashizo Okawa

A comedy about a free-spirited man Shosuke, whose life is turned upside down when he is ordered to serve the clan lord.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ryutaro Otomo

After being bailed out of trouble by a member of the Kaijima Clan, Ryuhei dedicates himself to saving the Kajima’s lucrative lumber business.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideo Murata

A story of manly life and the beauty of conjugal love. A story about a man and a woman establishing a family of longshoreman, centering on their love...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

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

Genre: Action

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Ninkyo with Hideki Takahashi.

Genre: Action

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

A kindhearted wandering gambler named Hajiro gets involved in a crisis of a village as he passes through and decides to lend a sword in hopes to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hashizo Okawa

A headstrong young man seeks to join the Shinsengumi, but while his determination impresses his superiors, questions begin to arise as to his true...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hashizo Okawa

Counselor Mito and his companions departed from Mito to see Kikutaro, a young lord of the shogun family, who became the new lord of Shirataka castle...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

A murdered pawnbroker found clutching a blood-soaked wedding gown, the kidnapped daughter of a Shogun vassal, mysterious robberies, brutal killings,...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Hashizo Okawa

One of Japan's most enduring stories is the true-life yakuza boss Jirocho of Shimizu and his gang as they took over the Tokaido Highroad and went on...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hashizo Okawa

The final chapter of the Hibotan Bakuto series. Oryu the Red Peony visits an old dying Boss of an ally family and promised her that she would help...

Genre: Action

Cast: Sumiko Fuji

One of the great stories from Japan’s rich history comes to life in this true tale of the bloody showdown between two rival yakuza gangs in the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

As Japan’s Tokugawa shogunate nears the end of its rule, Edo North Magistrate Toyama no Kinsan is called upon to judge the most difficult case...

Genre: History

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Kinnosuke of Toyama sets out on a private mission to clear his father’s name for a crime he did not commit.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

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Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

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Cast: Makoto Fujita

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Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

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Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

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Cast: Chiyonosuke Azuma

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Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

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Cast: Ryutaro Otomo

When Kanbe Nagakichi has his turf taken over by Ano-Toku, the father-in-law of his sworn brother Kira Nikichi sets in motion one of the most violent...

Genre: Action

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

A sixteen-year-old who had been living on her own since her mother died, frequently gets in trouble with the police. She gets sent to an "institute"...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

The Domain: White Blade

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Cast: Ken Takakura

Umon goes on an investigation to unveil the murderer known as Red Lizard.

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Cast: Ryutaro Otomo

1958 Japanese movie

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Cast: Tomoko Matsushima

1961 Japanese movie

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Cast: Takeshi Sakamoto

In old Japan, the legend of the ninja lives on in Watari, the Ninja Boy, a motion picture like no other. This is the story of a young boy with...

Genre: Music

Cast: Yoshinobu Kaneko

The story opens in October of 1624 when the newly appointed Shogun Iemitsu visits the famed Kan-ei temple. On his way the procession is disrupted...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura