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.
Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice gam...
Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided ...
Adventures of famous yakuza boss Jirocho and his disciples who settle in Kofu.
Based on the exploits of real-life historical character Magistrate Toyama no Kinsan, this exciting t...
Turbulent life of Kiwa, the successor of the most prominent yakuza in Osaka, the Domoto Clan.
Nakadai Tatsuya, Japan’s greatest living actor, gives the performance of a lifetime as Shoji Sanosuk...
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....
“Gunro no keifu” is known as “Tale of a Scarface.” It follows the life of Kumoro, a yakuza member, w...
A trio of teenage tarts try to earn money through shoplifting and prostitution scams and get into de...
A film starring Teruhiko Saigo and Hideki Takahashi about two men who join the fight against a gang ...
During the Sengoku period, an army relentlessly lays siege to a castle, but they will need the head ...
A young leader of the Yamazaki family of Nagasaki, Takida (Ken Takakura) is an A-bomb survivor. He f...
Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifull...
A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival ...
Two penniless orphans, Black and White, struggle to survive on the mean streets of Treasure Town. Wh...
A jidaigeki film on Banzuiin Chōbei produced in 1940 and directed by Yasuki Chiba.
Oda Nobunaga (1534–1582) was a major daimyo during the Warring State period of Japanese history. He ...
Former hitman Ginya Yabuki (Riki Takeuchi) left the mafia and split somewhat contentiously with his ...
Ten years after his greatest triumph, Yabuki has lost the Mafia that was once his to rule. But when ...