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Wishing to find peace, Zatoichi travels to his old village but only finds trouble when he ends up in a love triangle and finds old scores have...
New Tale of Zatoichi
In the first two films we learn the character's origins, including his childhood and how he learned his fighting skills. Later, he must face his...
Akado Suzunosuke: Monster in the Moonlight
The magical swordsman battles a gang of cutthroats, who are led by a peg-legged villain.
Akado Suzunosuke vs. the One-Legged Devil
Yamaotoko no Uta
In Kyoto a young kimono maker with traditional ideas gets involved with a married professor.
Night River
Saiyûki
1962 Japanese movie
Teppo Yasu no Shogai
新 鞍馬天狗 五條坂の決闘
1962 Japanese movie. Remake of Mori's 1942 original movie
Third Generation's Loyalty Offering
Shinnosuke is introduced to Shizu as a prospective marriage partner, but he falls in love with her widowed sister Oyu. Convention forbids Oyu to...
Miss Oyu
Returning to the village where a year before he had killed Hirate, a much-admired opponent, Zatoichi encounters another swordsman and former rival in...
The Tale of Zatoichi Continues
The exciting story of Jirocho and his yakuza gang that controlled the area of the Tokaido during the latter days of the samurai era. Awesome...
Jirocho Fuji 2: The Chivalrous
Bara daimyo
Sabakareru Echizen no kami
Judge of the Ashuras
Song of Love
Meiji no kyōdai
1958 Japanese movie
Akado Suzunosuke: Dokuro dentaiji
Large star-shaped aliens travel to earth in hopes of warning them about an oncoming catastrophe. To prevent panic about their appearance, one alien...
Warning from Space
Princess Kiyo accidentally injures a local priest, Anchin, while on a hunt. She apologizes, but feels irritated by Anchin’s indifference to her...
The Priest and the Beauty
Japan, 1643, as the Kato clan of Aizu falls from power two brave samurai will settle a dispute in the time-honored tradition of their clan, by...
Scars of Honor
Rikitaro and Osayo are popular entertainers who throw knives. They are sweethearts. At one day They help Ocho, who is a beautiful pickpocket when she...
The Magical Warrior
The hairpin murdered a young girl. Detective Zenigata Heiji begin to investigate. Suddenly a murder case turns into a case of smuggling.
The Casebooks of Zenigata Heiji: The Beautiful Shark
Second sequel to Saiyuki (1952)
Nagurikomi Songokū
A series of ghastly murders are being committed. The one similarity in each of the murders is that a weird buzzing sound is always heard right before...
The Invisible Man vs. The Human Fly
Yaji and Kita: Yasuda's Rescue is a 1927 black and white Japanese silent film directed by Tomiyasu Ikeda.[1] This comedy film showcases the comic...
Yaji and Kita: Yasuda's Rescue
Pu Zhe , the younger brother of the Emperor of Manchukuo, Pu Wen, marries Ryuko the daughter of a long-established aristocratic family - all in the...
The Wandering Princess
The story of two sisters in post-war Japan. One is a geisha and the other works for the tourist board.
Clothes of Deception
Tsunamune Date, the young lord of Sendai Domain, was ordered by the shogunate to stand down after being spotted in a brothel. Shortly after, four...
The Demon of Sendai's Castle
During the reign of Hidetada, the second shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty, the advisor Okubo Hikozaemon (Ganjiro Nakamura) entrusts the young Takechiyo...
Shogun's Holiday
風来物語 あばれ飛車
風来物語任侠篇
Fourth film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka
Thirty-three footprints
Tange Sazen - Dai-ippen
Near the end of the shogunate in Japan, Katsura Shogoro and his fellow samurai from the southwestern domain of Choshu enter the dojo of Saito Yakuro,...
Kenpu Renpeikan
A classic melodramatic love tragedy addressing social inequality in Taishō-era Japan, The nostalgic scenes of 1920s Tokyo provides a valuable...
Tokyo March
Gotō Matabei is the most able and fierce samurai of the Kuroda clan. However, he gradually dislikes the ruthless personality of Kuroda Nagamasa...
Kojiki Taishô
A pre-war sports movie by director Tomu Uchida. This story is set at the Waseda-Keio regatta. This was shot at the banks of the Sumida River, where...
The King of Rowing
An intellectual couple in a staid and tedious marriage are surprised when the wife’s niece, who has run away from home, turns up unexpectedly...
This Way, That Way
A story about Ômura Masujirô
Masujiro Omura
Kokoro no jitsugetsu: Retsujitsu hen - Gekko hen
1945 Japanese movie
Ikeru isu
The eldest daughter of the Takamatsu family, Atsuko, a widow, returns home due to not getting along with her late husband's family. On the other...
Kōfuku no genkai
In medieval Japan, a woman and her children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was exiled years before.
Sansho the Bailiff
A greedy developer, in league with a corrupt Shrine Magistrate, brutally tries to drive people out of a tenement building and destroy the shrine in...
Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters
最後の攘夷党
Retired police inspector Kurusu is vacationing at a seaside hotel when one night he hears a child's screaming...but there are no children staying in...
The Devil's toast
Japan, 1159. Moritō, a brave samurai, performs a heroic act by rescuing the lovely Kesa during a violent uprising. Moritō falls in love...
Gate of Hell
A quintessential example of the period "ghost cat" (bakeneko or kaibyo) movie, this was one of at least six such titles released by the studio Shinko...
The Ghost Cat and the Mysterious Shamisen
1946 Japanese movie
The Okagura Brothers
Jewel thieves become interested in an invisibility formula invented by Professor Nakazato and want to use his invention to acquire a diamond necklace...
The Invisible Man Appears
A middle-aged husband of a younger woman finds her youth intimidating to the point that he cannot become aroused. His solution involves the...
Odd Obsession
Tomotaka Tasaka's earliest surviving surviving film is a powerful adaptation of Hector Malot's "Nobody's Girl".
Town of Love
A unique story of a life of romance, divided into three episodes about the profound secrets of the path deeply rooted in the essence of human nature,...
Iro no Michi Oshiemasu: Yume San'ya
Directed by Tomotaka Tasaka.
Behold This Mother
First of nine films based on the novel. The first live-action adaptation focuses on the origins of how Akadô Suzunosuke learned his skills as a...
Akadô Suzunosuke
The former Japanese Naval Academy was at Etajima, one of the many islands of the beautiful Inland Sea. Among the new cadets were Ishikawa and Murase....
Etajima, the Naval Academy
The tragic, yet exciting story of the friendship between Nakayama Yasubei, a member of the 47 Ronin, and Tange Tenzen, a relative by marriage of the...
Broken Swords
Two sisters, Kyoko and Hisako, run a restaurant in Kyoto. But an incident with the latter's fiancé puts their relationship, and the future of...
The Sisters and I
It is brother against brother in this tale of love and betrayal within the famed Yagyu clan. In one of their earliest films together, superstars...
Hidden Story of the Yagyu Clan
In the mountain regions of Hida, the dreams of a peasant named Kyonosuke, who longed to be a samurai, come true when he becomes one of three doubles,...
The Third Shadow Warrior
Two amiable samurai wind up on opposite sides of the vendetta between Lord Asano's retainers and the family of Lord Kira that led to the famous...
Samurai Vendetta
The Dai-bosatsu toge trilogy is based on Kaizan Nakazato's unfinished long series of novels (41 books, written from 1913 to 1941). Set in the last...
Satan's Sword
In Edo-period Japan, Shingo is born the son of an assassin who was executed for murdering her lord’s concubine. Decades later, his adoptive...
Destiny's Son
While transporting a bride-to-be in a closed carriage (kago) while during a thunderstorm, a group of servants and onlookers suddenly come upon an...
White Snake Woman
During the 1200's, legendary Buddhist monk Nichiren returns from his studies to lead Japan out of moral crisis and prepare to fight Mongol invaders...
Nichiren and the Great Mongol Invasion
Warlord Oda Nobunaga seeks to unite a fractured Japan. A young man trained in the arts of ninjitsu is manipulated by a ninja master into attempting...
Ninja, A Band of Assassins
Satoko is a mistress by trade or fate: when her master, the silkscreen artist of the Kohoan Temple in Kyoto, dies, she is given to the temple's...
The Temple of Wild Geese
Isazo is a traveling gambler and living legend in the world of yakuza, known for his swordsmanship and bravery, his impeccable manners, and his...
Lone Wolf Isazo
Nemuri Kyoshiro, a youthful and cynical ronin with unparalleled skill, is approached by both sides in a game of corruption, ambition, and double...
Sleepy Eyes of Death 1: The Chinese Jade
Early film directed by Kenji Misumi.
Gonpachi
Otsuya, the daughter of a rich merchant, elopes with her lover Shinsuke, an employee of her father's. During their flight, Otsuya's beauty attracts...
Irezumi
The Lord Pretends
An Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six years in search of spiritual enlightenment. Siddartha...
Buddha
A father decides to put his delinquent daughter into a temple in Kyoto known for its austere novitiate. Initially resistant to all forms of...
The Virgin Witness
Yoso is truly a lost classic, set in the Nara Era (710-794), from Kinugasa Teinosuke the same writer/director who gave us the recognized classic Gate...
Bronze Magician
A naively honorable samurai comes to the bitter realization that his devotion to moral samurai principles makes him an oddity among his peers, and a...
The Betrayal
This period thriller concerns a very famous cat known as the "monster cat of Nabeshima". This cat, a symbol of vengeance in human disguise, takes...
Haunted Castle
In 1905, Japan was seriously threatened in the Russo-Japanese War. Japan determined a decisive attack on Russia to end the war. A reconnaissance...
Advance Patrol
A demon-faced monster seeking revenge appears in the forms of a gigantic ox and a huge spider! The young Genji warrior protects the Fujiwara Clan and...
The Demon of Mount Oe
A band of guerrillas fight against occupying British forces in Malaya.
The Tiger of Malaya
A poor peasant, after years of scraping, becomes a rich and powerful Osaka merchant. Mizoguchi Kenji's final project; he died before completing it...
An Osaka Story
In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearby village, in defiance of a local...
Ugetsu
Fearless Edo-period police inspector Hanzo Itami, nicknamed The Razor, has developed his own unique way of extracting information for his inquiries....
Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice
The stage director Shimamura, who is bringing western theatre to Japan, falls in love with the outspoken actress Sumako Matsui, and leaves his family...
The Love of the Actress Sumako
Zatoichi runs afoul of some evil fugitives, working for a corrupt law official.
Zatoichi and the Fugitives
The Great White Tiger Platoon was part of the Aizu clan's last ditch efforts to stop the advance of Imperial troops after the fall of the Tokugawa...
The Great White Tiger Platoon
Special Forces commander Captain Tadamori returns to Kyoto after successfully defeating the uprising of pirates in the western sea of Japan. But...
Taira Clan Saga
Nocturnal Gate
Yôki na tono-sama
The disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with general anaesthetic, and the women in his life who are both so determined...
The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka
Yaji and Kita: The Battle of Toba Fushimi is a 1928 Japanese film directed by Tomiyasu Ikeda.[1] This comedy film showcases the acting talent of...
Yaji and Kita: The Battle of Toba Fushimi
Dedication of the Great Buddha is a 1952 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.
Dedication of the Great Buddha
On the night of the summer Obon festival, Hagiwara Shinzaburo meets a beautiful courtesan named Otsuyu. Not knowing she's a ghost, he becomes...
The Bride from Hades
Resurrection
Demonfire Palanquin
The Young Lord
Zangiku monogatari
The Color Print of Edo is a 1939 black and white Japanese silent film with benshi accompaniment directed by Kazuo Mori. It is a cheerful period...
A Color Print of Edo
A 1946 Japanese film directed by Keigo Kimura.
Taki no shiraito
The Woman Who Opens the Door
Fighting Letter for 29 People
Hatobue wo Fuku Onna
Young Boss: Invitation to Fight
Nuregami botan
A 1961 film directed by Yoshiyuki Kuroda.
Oniisan to oneesan
三万両五十三次