A samurai is struggling to make ends meet at the end of the Edo period. He has students and, among other things, teaches them about the evils of the government. A member of the yakuza thugs has fallen in love with the samurai's daughter and conspires to report the father to the authorities in order to snatch the girl. The samurai's daughter has a boyfriend who hides the father and daughter from the thug.

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice gam...

The first in what would become Toei's most successful, longest-running bosozoku film series. It last...

A yakuza boss hires Goemon Ishikawa, a modern day samurai, to protect him aboard his cruise ship cas...

The Color Print of Edo is a 1939 black and white Japanese silent film with benshi accompaniment dire...

This is the sixth film in the Brutal Tales of Chivalry series

The ninth and final film in the Contemporary Tales of Chivalry series.

Amagi Goe, based on Seicho Matsumoto's novel, has created numerous stars through its visualizations....

The government in Edo era is suffering from a financial crisis. It hires "Kage" to provoke the colla...

Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided ...

A Japanese Yakuza gangster's deadly existence in his homeland gets him exiled to Los Angeles, where ...

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...

Having put down his sword and given up the will to fight, the masterless samurai Iemon lives in soli...

It is a historical drama that follows Katsu Kaishu's efforts to surrender Edo Castle bloodlessly in ...

Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who pred...

Elite college graduates commit perfect financial crimes though loopholes in the law during the 1950s...

In this film, Hibari plays a dual role as brother and sister. The story involves a journey to Hanaga...

Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan w...

Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifull...

Since the enactment of the Anti-Boryokudan Act and Yakuza exclusion ordinances, the number of Yakuza...