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.

President of the territorial yakuza organization is being manipulated by a crooked leader in the mil...

A jidaigeki film on Banzuiin Chōbei produced in 1940 and directed by Yasuki Chiba.

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

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...

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

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

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...

Two contract killers cross paths in the middle of the same job and realize they are childhood friend...

Unlike traditional gangster movies, it is a gangster swashbuckler that mixes romance and humanity wi...

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

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

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

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

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

A good-natured, but a useless man who loves horse racing and spends all of his family's precious mon...

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

In the middle of the era, Taisho, a big boss in Asakusa Iizuka, was severely questioned by the polic...

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