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.

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...

When Boss Juzo's Shinmachi Yakuza family struck fear into the hearts of his adversaries, Boss Shohei...

Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan w...

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

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

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

Two rogue vagrants make their living as "manure men", turning the waste from the tenement toilets in...

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...

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

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

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

A village samurai with money, power and great masculinity goes to the flourishing city of Edo to hav...

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

As Part I opens, Jubei (Denjiro Okochi), the best of sea skippers, is unable to overcome the stormy ...

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

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

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

The 21-year-old feudal on Sendai, Tsunamune Date, was prohibited to go out in the daytime for his mi...