Kunisada Chuji is a common folk hero who looks out for poor people in the country who are at the mercy of corrupt officials. Intent on fulfilling a dying wish from one of his henchmen, Asataro, to find a decent home for his young nephew, Chuji descends from his hide-out in the mountain, and heads to the city in spite of numerous dangers that await him there.

When the boss of the Nakano Family decides to retire and makes a loyal follower the new boss instead...

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...

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

The Color Print of Edo is a 1939 black and white Japanese silent film with benshi accompaniment dire...

In the turbulent last days of the Edo period, Kawai Tsugunosuke, a Japanese samurai serving the Maki...

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

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

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

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...

A unique action drama in which a ruthless yakuza encounters a woman and realizes his true love as th...

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

In this film, Hibari plays a dual role as brother and sister. The story involves a journey to Hanaga...

Drama set in the historical Warring States Era of Japan. Tokaido name Imagawa Yoshimoto personally l...

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

Japan, 1785. Jūzaburō, a famous thief who refuses to kill innocent people, is betrayed, ambushed, an...

Akemi ( Mizuna Rei ), the only daughter of the Kozakura family in the Kanto region, hates yakuza and...

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