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.
Shinji and Masaru spend most of their school days harassing fellow classmates and playing pranks. Th...
The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. The husband ...
Kamagasaki is an "invisible" slum of Osaka that attracts day laborers and prostitutes since WW2. Whe...
Former yakuza underling Kazuma Kiryū has recently been released from prison after a lengthy incarcer...
Elite college graduates commit perfect financial crimes though loopholes in the law during the 1950s...
American private eye Harry Kilmer returns to Japan to rescue a friend's kidnapped daughter from the ...
Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided ...
When the Shogunates greatest secret is stolen, the fate of the nation hangs in the balance. The Shog...
A group of ruthless gangsters, an unknown woman and an escaped convict have met, in The Forest of Re...
Detective Nishi is relieved from a stakeout to visit his sick wife in hospital. He is informed that ...
Before Tokugawa Yoshimune, known as the "Ravage Shogun", was the lord of the Kishu domain, before he...
Bright samurai movie innovatively adapted from a classic story. A traveling masterless samurai is as...
Light-hearted samurai comedy. The second son of a feudal lord runs away from an arranged marriage. H...
Hikaru Genji, the haunted romantic hero of Lady Murasaki Shikibu’s “Genji Monogatari” (Tale of Genji...
Mikami, an ex-yakuza of middle age with most of his life in prison, gets released after serving 13 y...
Tanaka is a yakuza who collects 'protection money' from establishments. He has just been released fr...
On the day his mother dies, young gambler Jirocho swears in front of her grave that he'll never gamb...
In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a ...
A young lord solves the mystery of multiple murders involving a young couple and a woman.
Seijiro and Shizue meet in Niigata and fall in love. Seijiro has to go back to Tokyo soon after, and...