Hidejirō is sent to prison after killing the boss of a rival family. After being released, he discovers that his family has scattered and he is taken in by a company of quarry workers, whose boss has a strict code of non-violence. When the rival family tries to take over the company and kills their boss, Hidejirō must choose between his promise of non-violence and his yakuza code of revenge...

Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie s...

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

Late in the 1500s, an aging tea master teaches the way of tea to a headstrong Shogun. Through force ...

In this drama at the end of World War II, the inhabitants of a small Japanese fishing village must c...

This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every y...

A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu is on the run from the police.

With a price on his head, Ichi seeks tranquillity in a favorite village. Since his last visit, it ha...

Would-be writer Ryunosuke Chagawa is still living across the street from Norifumi Suzuki and his aut...

Part 2 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, ...

A male corpse is discovered with a smashed face and burned hands. Strangely, the cause of death is d...

Official Shogunate executioner Ogami Itto has been framed for disloyalty to the Shogunate by the Yag...

The wealthy president of a company has built up an unpayable debt to a local crime lord, and to esca...

Ogami Itto volunteers to be tortured by Yakuza in order to save a prostitute and is hired by their l...

With most of his family already dead at Ogami Itto's hands, Retsudo launches one final plot to destr...

In central Tokyo, a young man, Sosuke, aspires to be a manga artist. His current work is about a bat...

A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repe...

Ooshima Shino is a 1st-grade high school student. She has difficulties pronouncing words that start ...

Japan, 1946, just after the end of World War II. As the US occupation army patrols the dilapidated s...

Amelia and Wes have had a falling out in Japan, a foreign land neither of them are accustomed to. Wh...