Thieves broke into Yamashiroya, a drug wholesaler, and stole 780 ryo. In the storehouse, there was a sticker with a picture of an umbrella, the signature of Yahei Kasayama, a great thief who once ransacked the entire Kanto region. Heizo Hasegawa (Kichiemon Nakamura), the director of the reform of the thieves, learns that the theft was the work of Yahei's son Yataro (Somegoro Ichikawa [now Koshiro Matsumoto]) and his gang, thanks to the help of a spy named Isaji (Koichi Miura). He learns that Yataro is in the process of marrying Oito (Tomoka Kurokawa), the daughter of Shigezo of Narumi, a great thief from Owari. Heizo learns the true identity of the thread and the evil plans of the second generation Narumi Shigezo (Fuse Hiroshi), and he meets Nagashima no Kugoro (Matsudaira Ken), a former thief who is trying to arrange a marriage deal to return the favor to the previous generation Kasayama and the previous generation Narumi. ) while hiding his identity...

"Tsubaki Sanjuro" is a remake of Sanjuro (1962) by Akira Kurosawa. Sanjuro returns with sharper, fas...

The third part of the series of films based on the Japanese epic novel Nanso Satomi Hakkenden by Kyo...

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

During the reign of the eighth shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate, the Yunagaya Domain in the Tohoku r...

Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors ar...

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

In a poor district of Edo lives a young samurai named Soza. He has been sent by his clan to avenge t...

A look at the relationship between a young blind samurai and his wife, who will make a sacrifice in ...

In the Edo period, a nameless ronin accepts an assignment to go to a mountain pass and wait. Near th...

Ogami Itto battles a group of female ninja in the employ of the Yagyu clan and must eliminate a trai...

Ichi is a blind entertainer that travels the countryside with her traditional Japanese guitar and wa...

Ryunosuke, a gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate rule, ha...

Against the backdrop of the Edo treasury devaluing currency and driving many into poverty, Hanzo Ita...

Hanzo extracts a confession from a ghost using his assaulting methods, foils thieves, connects with ...

Kotani Zenzaemon, a ronin who has a side job making brushes in a tenement house in the back alley, i...

The adventures of a blind, gambling masseur and master swordsman. Zatoichi targets a yakuza-controll...

Kohei Akiyama, a popular master swordsman, and his son Daijiro live in the town of Edo in good faith...

Kohei Akiyama, a popular master swordsman, and his son Daijiro live in the town of Edo in good faith...

The ever versatile Kazuki Kitamura stars as masterless samurai Kyutaro Madarame, a feared swordsman ...

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