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.

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

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

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

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

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

The news that the fifth Shogun Tsunayoshi was seriously ill caused a fierce struggle for the post of...

Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century....

When an artist dies, the official cause of death is judged to be a stroke, but his daughter suspects...

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

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

After spending eight years in prison for murder, Hiroshi leaves his yakuza family to start a new lif...

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival ...

Takahagi Sutegoro is highly skilled at casing locations for thieves so that he can sell detailed flo...

During the Sengoku period, an army relentlessly lays siege to a castle, but they will need the head ...

A film about two men who join the fight against a gang selling weapons.

In the hyper-masculine criminal underworld, a masochistic high-ranking yakuza and his newly-assigned...

Osamu rescues a girl who was being chased by two punks and is soon mixed up with the Yakuza

A former soldier is caught working the black market and sent to prison while his partner escapes and...

When master swordsman Mikogami Genshiro of the Ono fencing school returns to find that his ailing se...

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