Teruko Omi

The heroic warrior uses his magical powers and great sword skills to battle a criminal gang who all wear devil outfits.

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Shoji Umewaka

In Kyoto a young kimono maker with traditional ideas gets involved with a married professor.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fujiko Yamamoto

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Fujiko Yamamoto

Kazuo Miyagawa’s prizewinning black-and-white cinematography draws out the moral shadings of Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata’s 1952...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiyo Kogure

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Film by director Kenji Misumi

Genre: Action

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Third film of the yoidore hakase series

Genre: Action

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

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Cast: Kazuko Miyagawa

Blind swordsman/masseuse Zatoichi befriends a young woman looking for her father, a village leader who has disappeared. As he helps her investigate...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

A racist sergeant stationed in post-war Japan finds himself softening towards the children and falling for a local woman.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Aldo Ray

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mari Atsumi

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Cast: Naohisa Takada

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Cast: Ryô Iwashita

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Cast: Eiko Yanami

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akane Kawasaki

Sequel to "Saiyuki" (1952)

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Kōtarō Bandō

One day, a funeral was held at one of the tenements in Asakusa. It was the only son of a wealthy merchant named Matasaburo, who had run away from...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Ganjirō Nakamura II

Tsunamune Date, the young lord of Sendai Domain, was ordered by the shogunate to stand down after being spotted in a brothel. Shortly after, four...

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Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

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Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

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Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiko Ono

Young lawyer Jiro receives a late night phone call from a distraught woman sending him on a journey to uncover corruption and exploitation stemming...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jirō Tamiya

Fourth film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka

Genre: Crime

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

When a theater producer Kurato is murdered in the audience on opening night, Inspector Kawano investigates the prop pistols used on stage, but all...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Jun Usami

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...

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Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Okoyo, the mistress of Lord Arima, fears that she is being replaced by a younger woman named Otaki. In a fit of jealousy, she kills the younger girl....

Genre: Horror

Cast: Takako Irie

In medieval Japan, a woman and her children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was exiled years before.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

Jewel thieves become interested in an invisibility formula invented by Professor Nakazato and want to use his invention to acquire a diamond necklace...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Ryūnosuke Tsukigata

A unique story of a life of romance, divided into three episodes about the profound secrets of the path deeply rooted in the essence of human nature,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ganjirō Nakamura II

The story of Kanesuke and Entaro who are master elephant trainers in charge of two elephants, Taro and Hanako at the Metropolitan Zoo.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kingorō Yanagiya

Story of a Beloved Wife is an autobiographical work based on Shindo's first marriage. Jūkichi Uno stars as a struggling screenwriter, and Nobuko...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

In one of Japan's most frequently-told ghost stories, a murdered wife returns in an act of vengeance.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

A kabuki actress is murdered. Her pet cat laps its mistress's blood and becomes a demon possessed by the vengeful murder victim.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Takako Irie

During the war a man is bitten by a creature which looks like a cross between a bear and an ape in the jungle. Later he starts to transform to a...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Joji Oka

After arriving in the town of Shimonita, Ichi finds that a price has been put on his head by a local yakuza boss. He's drawn into a trap, but after...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

One of Kinugasa's last films--based on the story by Tanizaki Jun'ichirō.

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Cast: Fujiko Yamamoto

The tragic, yet exciting story of the friendship between Nakayama Yasubei, a member of the 47 Ronin, and Tange Tenzen, a relative by marriage of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

Zatoichi is sworn to protect the life of a young girl and without any real allies finds himself in the middle of a bloody turf war.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

A model gets involved with some gangsters trying to pull a big deal.

Genre: Action

Cast: Mari Atsumi

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...

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Blind masseur Zatoichi is nursed back to health by a young woman after he is shot by a gang member. Zatoichi, who had come to the village to repay a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

The blind masseuse is targeted by the leader of a powerful yakuza group while also fending off a jealous husband bent on revenge. Zatoichi tours...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

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

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...

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Film directed by Kenji Misumi.

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Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

An Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six years in search of spiritual enlightenment. Siddartha...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

A tanuki-themed musical.

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Cast: Yataro Kurokawa

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mari Atsumi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiko Takahashi

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...

Genre: Action

Cast: Michiyo Yasuda

When a corrupt magistrate rapes Oshima, Masa (Raizō Ichikawa) avenges her by killing the officer, becoming thereby a fugitive, haunted and...

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

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...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

A woman loses her son through an evil conspiracy and commits suicide. Shortly afterwards a ghost cat begins haunting the conspirators. This is...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Kōtarō Bandō

A remake of Kaidan Saga yashiki (1953).

Genre: Horror

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Based on the comic by Machiko Hasegawa

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Cast: Achako Hanabishi

A story about a wealthy family and the greed and selfishness of three daughters and relatives, after the passing of their old father

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiyo Kogure

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...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Machiko Kyō

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

Shinjiro is a rambler, a single sword carrying lone wolf with only his fighting skills to protect him. He doesn’t know where his road leads,...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

The story follows Oshino, a geisha who is trying to start a new life with a lover who is a painter. However, her past filled with debts and pimps...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fujiko Yamamoto

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Blind masseur and master swordsman Zatoichi finds a robbed and fatally wounded pregnant woman, whose baby he delivers before she dies. He takes the...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Blind swordsman/masseuse Zatoichi befriends a young woman returning home with her baby. When gangsters mistake her for Zatoichi and kill her,...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Zatoichi runs afoul of some evil fugitives, working for a corrupt law official.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

An omnibus comedy in which an unique lawyer teaches about laws regarding sex crimes.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kikko Matsuoka

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Genre: Crime

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Genre: Action

Cast: Jirō Tamiya

A 1961 film directed by Yoshiyuki Kuroda.

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

About 1786 the doings of a demented lord results in many masterless samurai, including Iyemon (Kei Sato) who is used to luxury and cannot adjust to...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Kazuko Inano

1959 Japanese movie

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Cast: Fujiko Yamamoto

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Cast: Hiroshi Inuzuka

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Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa