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.

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

A young executive has a really bad night after an encounter with a crazed bisexual wannabe yakuza an...

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

Takahashi Hideki stars as Muyonosuke, the one-eyed ronin who makes his living as a bounty hunter who...

Kosuke Suzuki was presumed dead after boss Toseikai Setouchi lynched him and threw him into the sea ...

In 1908, Director/Producer Shozo Makino (father of Japanese cinema) directed and produced the first...

The Tendokai is attacked by the Daitoa-dan. Believing there's a traitor within the organization, Wa...

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

Two rogue vagrants make their living as "manure men", turning the waste from the tenement toilets in...

When Boss Juzo's Shinmachi Yakuza family struck fear into the hearts of his adversaries, Boss Shohei...

Wandering swordsman Kanbei, parading through town with a sign that reads "Seeking fights, selling my...

Shinsuke Inaba, a thief who snuck into the Kishu family residence in Edo. He was almost discovered b...

The film adaptation of the novel "Three Little Rats" by Tatsuro Jinde. In this fascinating story, th...

The second film about the adventures of Chosichiro Matsudaira. This time he fights against conspirat...

Marc Schrader, a rookie cop caught red-handed with drugs in a police raid of an illegal rave, joins ...

In the late 1890s, coal is a precious new natural resource. During an era of rapid economic growth, ...

In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a ...

Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersona...

Makoto is doing his best to raise his 7-year-old son Kazuki. Despite his best intentions, the violen...

Bungo, fulfilling his duty as a yakuza, kills a man from a rival gang. Since then, he has escaped th...