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Zatoichi comes upon a dying man who asks him to give a bag of money to "Taichi". Zatoichi has no idea who this is but when he comes upon a small town...
Zatoichi's Vengeance
In post-war Japan, it is difficult for private business to stay afloat. The small atelier has a debt of several million yen. To get a loan, his...
A Lonely Gamble
Mysterious Scar Beauty
The Beauty of the Black Narcissus
An early ninkyo film from before the genre had truly established its form. Koji Tsuruta plays an honourable outlaw who saves an older man from an...
Two Lives, Two Yakuza
Demonic Beauty
1962 Japanese movie
I am the Judge
Original work: The second installment of Edogawa Rampage's Inference Masterpiece series, which began airing on Asahi TV in the second half of the...
The Beauty in the Bathroom
Hôseki no bijo: Edogawa Ranpo Hakuhatsuki yori
His bloodline damned by a witch, Waldemar Daninsky heads to Japan to seek a cure for his werewolf curse.
The Beast and the Magic Sword
The adventures of a blind, gambling masseur and master swordsman. Zatoichi targets a yakuza-controlled village, because war with a neighbouring...
The Tale of Zatoichi
In the 1970s, the Japanese youth emancipation also found its way into the yakuza (crime) societies. A Girl Boss may have a choice between bikes, and...
Girl Boss Blues: Queen Bee's Counterattack
[Period covered: 1582-1594]. As the film opens, the warlod Nobunaga Oda rides to Iga Ayanokuni shrine. He is asked if he thinks he has destroyed all...
Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance
Shortly after the Meiji Restoration, young people devoted to the teachings of Saigo Takamori trained day and night at Seiyun Juku in Kagoshima,...
The tragedy of a young warrior
A group of sinners involved in interconnected tales of murder, revenge, deceit and adultery all meet at the Gates of Hell.
Jigoku
1930. In splendid snowy settings, the trials and pain of a woman married to a man who maintains a relationship with their servant.
Shroud of Snow
Udaka is a new, post-war city where corruption has already taken hold. A persistent district attorney wants to arrest and convict Katsumata, a...
Rusty Knife
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
This horror tale relates the consequences of a Japanese legend which tells of a man who has to betray his wife in order to achieve power.
The Ghost of Yotsuya
A struggling single mother catches the eye of a rising executive and gains power and wealth as his mistress. But beware, power is fleeting.
Empress
An action-comedy about three men who try to bilk money out of gambling dens.
Easy Money
As winds of change sweep Japan, an honest man joins the Shinsengumi out of admiration for its leader, and because he wants to live and die as a...
Shinsengumi Chronicles
君は海を見たか
禁断の実の美女
Though he has come from a rough background on the streets, Muraki quickly rises through the ranks by means of his well-honed blackmailing instincts....
Blackmail Is My Life
Karasudo, who charges 16 mon for his fortune-telling skill, asks for nothing when it comes to swordplay. His merciless blade is stained with the...
The Edo Fortune-Teller
Samon Kamiyama, a skilled yoriki under Toyama Saemon-no-jō Kagemoto is feared and known to the villains as “Samon from the Hell.”...
Samon’s Hell Revenge: Unauthorised Jutte Records
Samon, who had left his position as a police constable, embarks on a journey. During his travel, he is attacked by a group of masked bandits and...
Samon’s Hell Revenge: Unauthorised Jutte Records 4
Samon Kamiyama, a yoriki of the Minami-machi magistrate infiltrates the Denzū-machi prison disguised as Mushuku Sahēji. Samon is mistaken...
Samon’s Hell Revenge: Unauthorised Jutte Records 2 - The Assassination of the Shogun
After three consecutive days of heavy rain, the water level at Sumida River rises and the newly built Eitai Bridge collapses just two years after its...
Samon’s Hell Revenge: Unauthorised Jutte Records 3
Nemuri Kyoshiro discovers a conspiracy centering around a band of disgruntled samurai wanting to avenge the death of their sensei, a political...
Sleepy Eyes of Death 8: Sword of Villainy
During the reign of Shogun Iemitsu, a great martial arts tournament was held to determine whether or not Iemitsu was to remain in power or cede it to...
Kanei Command Performance
江戸川乱歩の黄金仮面II/桜の国の美女
A big American boss landed in Japan in search of funding sources. A lone wolf trying to stop it ends up fighting against his big brother's...
Ankoku gai jingi
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
Kizaki, an upstart at a trading company has one more assignment for the day before meeting his lovely girlfriend, Natsuki for a date. Little does he...
Revenge of the Pearl Queen
江戸川乱歩「緑衣の鬼」より 白い人魚の美女
Gem Beauty
大時計の美女 江戸川乱歩の「幽霊塔」
天使と悪魔の美女 江戸川乱歩の「白昼夢」
White skinned beauty
Beauty at the Bottom of the Lake
The Beauty of Black Pearl
The Beauty of the Makeup Stage
Beauty in the Flame
The Beauty of Heaven and Hell
Nagasaki at the end of the Edo period had the taste of a criminal paradise, where, despite the exotic, dangerous work was always in demand. Here,...
Assassins for sale
Edogawa Ranpo Series Fascinated Beauty
駿河遊侠傳 賭場荒し
The third movie following the exploits of bounty hunter Shikoro Ichibei. The theft of almost a half ton of gold from the shogunate's official mine...
Eight Men to Kill
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
First movie of the Inu series directed by Tokuzō Tanaka
Homeless Dog
Quick Drawer Dog (早射ち犬 Hayauchi inu) is a 1967 film directed by Tetsutarō Murano. It is the eighth film in the Inu...
Quick-Draw Dog
Zoku teppō inu (続鉄砲犬) is a 1966 film directed by Mitsuo Murayama. It is the sixth film in the Inu series.
Return of Gun Dog
Tamio takes Itsuko to an art gallery and the two find one painting is a nude portrait of Itsuko's mother, who disappeared twenty years ago when she...
The Lady Vampire
1957 crime film
Cordon at Dawn
Kogoro approaches the true face of a bloody clown who attacks beautiful women one after another!
Edogawa Ranpo's Beauty Series: Beautiful Woman with White Breasts Edogawa Ranpo's "Hell's Clown"
Nikkatsu drama film
Black Curtain
Counterattack of a Queen Bee
Legendary swordplay filmmaker Hideo Gosha's Sword of the Beast chronicles the flight of the low-level swordsman Gennosuke, who kills one of his...
Sword of the Beast
In this fifth episode of the "Wataridori" series, Taki Shinji (Kobayashi Akira) drifts north to Hokkaido, where he helps protect an Ainu village from...
The Rambler Rides Again
Earlier version or Prequel to Queen Bee and the School for Dragons.
Queen Bee
Fairy Beauty
江戸川乱歩「悪魔の紋章」より 死刑台の美女
First film in Teruo Ishii's Line series.
Secret White Line Zone
Desiring another officer’s new wife, a military police lieutenant fabricates evidence of treason that consigns the innocent man to torture and...
Ghost in the Regiment
The year is 1937, and it has been six months since the Sendai Infantry left for Manchuria. The rotted corpse of a young woman is found at the bottom...
The Military Policeman and the Dismembered Beauty
Part of the Queen Bee series.
Queen Bee's Anger
Crime film distributed by Taiho.
Kuro to aka no hanabira
Two young crooks who scam betters in the race track are employed by a yakuza gang called the Shigemori Syndicate to steal a shipment of handguns from...
Fire Line
Japanese action film.
Queen Bee and College Boy Ryu
Elite college graduates commit perfect financial crimes though loopholes in the law during the 1950s.
Dead Angle
剣聖 暁の三十六番斬り
Meiji Tenno portrays the buildup to the Russo-Japan War. In addition to showing the political events that led to war, it also shows the era from the...
Emperor Meiji and the Great Russo-Japanese War
A story of young students trained to become Kamikaze pilots in World War II.
Classmates
The murder of the chief official of Kobe city's Customs triggers an investigation of a prostitution ring called the 'Yellow Line' that sells Japanese...
Yellow Line
A samurai rescues a mischievous tanuki from hunters and sets it free. When the samurai's wastrel son hatches a plot to kill his father for his...
Ghost Stories of Wanderer at Honjo
Suspense film based on the "Carbine Gang Incident" that happened in June 1954 in Japan.
kyôfu no kâbin jû
On September 1, 1923, an unprecedented earthquake hit the Kanto region. The streets are filled with victims, and rumors are circulating around. The...
Beyond the Hills
During the naval battle of Midway in WWII, the battleship Mutsu was in its home port in Japan. The ship's officers and crew were frustrated at not...
Enigmatic Explosion of the Battleship Mutsu
Japanese comedy film released to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Shintoho's founding.
Holiday in Japan
Japanese comedy film.
弥次喜多珍道中 中仙道の巻
Japanese crime film.
Mukeisatsu
トップ屋を殺せ
A bunch of young, angry and penniless misfits are full of great vitality. They aren’t quite up to joining the yakuza and execute a variety of...
Yakuza Hooligans
Sutâ dokusatsu jiken
Japanese mystery film marking Yuka Mizuhara's film debut.
南郷次郎探偵帳 影なき殺人者
Japanese war film.
Quiet Dawn in the Front
Japanese film.
稲妻奉行
1959 Shintoho adaptation of Kyoka Izumi's novel "A Woman's Pedigree".
Elegy of a Geisha
Japanese mystery film.
Nude Actress Murder Case: Five Criminals
5 criminals organize a jailbreak in search of a cache of stolen diamonds.
The Horizon Glitters
黄金奉行
皇室と戦争とわが民族
In 1941, overpopulated Japan faces an economic boycott and its armed forces push further to the south. And despite negotiations between Japan and the...
The Pacific War and the International Military Tribunal
Set in a tavern, director Tomu Uchida depicts the joys and sorrows of the people who gather there in an experimental style, weaving in a variety of...
Twilight Saloon
Freelance reporter “Scoop” Machida is hot on the trail of a prostitution ring called the Black Line, when he is framed for the murder of...
Black Line
Japanese drama film.
Poison Fang Oran
Japanese horror movie from 1984.
Midnight Demon
Japanese spy film.
Onna kanchō akatsuki no chōsen
A spectacular comedy with a star-studded cast that depicts unusual trials and unexpected verdicts regarding the five deadly sins: the crime of...
Nonki saiban
President of the territorial yakuza organization is being manipulated by a crooked leader in the military and some capitalists Ishikiri. The plan is...
A Scarred Life 2: Blood Will Tell
Horror film about a killer dwarf.
Mysterious Pygmy
Women of Whirlpool Island
The Gambler's Law
33-year-old poor writer Ogata was able to endure his miserable life cheerfully thanks to Yoshie, a 19-year-old innocent young wife. After graduating...
Mole Alley
Fujiko wanders aimlessly through the country, seeking vengence on the man she onced loved, who betrayed her, and destroying her family and her life....
Modern Lady Gambler
A series of murders has been committed by someone with a new model gun, a Mord-Gessel X 38. Indeed, Daisuke himself is almost killed while...
The Silent Gun
Okada, who had escaped death in the duel, suffered the greatest humiliation in the presence of his beloved Fumiko, and disappeared. Mitani and Fumiko...
The Faceless Man
During the Showa era, a young yakuza survives war and injury and rises to become a clan boss with the help and respect of his sworn brothers.
The Story of a Man Among Men
Part two.
Showdown of Men 2
Mondonosuke, a young sword student, has a bad dream about his sensei being killed in a duel.Consequently, he quickly returns to his sensei's dojo in...
The Third Contest
Teruo Ishii portrays the bitter conflict over the right to develop land in a gripping and humorous way. Nakagami, the head of the Kanto Joseikai, is...
The Boss
Rika, a manageress of a night club is about to be arrested on suspicion of smuggling. However, she escapes through the assistance rendered her by...
Queen of the China Sea
Third film in the "Inu" series.
The Dedicated Gunman
Fifth film in the "Inu" series.
Trigger Happy Romeo
Depicts the bloody siege of the fortress of Port Arthur, one of the most strongly fortified positions in the world, during the Russo-Japanese War of...
Port Arthur
A 1956 alien invasion tokusatsu film directed by Shinichi Sekizawa, the screenwriter noted for his immense contributions to Toho's Godzilla series by...
Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers
Emperor & Empress Meiji and the Sino-Japanese War
A master swordsman is ordered to go undercover on a mission to find and destroy a cannon factory being used by two samurai clans that try to usurp...
Samurai Secret Agent
Shinjiro is a rambler, a single sword carrying lone wolf with only his fighting skills to protect him. He doesn’t know where his road leads,...
The Lightning Sword
Part one.
Showdown of Men
Long Swords of the Loyal Forty-Seven
Ken ni kakeru
Yôki na tono-sama
Part 3 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, amoral, but not evil chinpira (Bunta Sugawara and...
The Viper Brothers: Prison Gang 13
花眞珠
The Prosecutor and His Sister
A omnibus movie consisting of the three parts: "Kechinbo", "Yowak" and "Kôshoku".
Ren'ai Zubari Kôza
At the end of the Greater East Asia War, young Amada Koichi and his father were wrongfully accused as spy suspects and his father died in prison...
怒号する巨弾
Scammer Horikawa Shinbei hopes to make a quick buck using Namie, a stripper under his control.
Morishige no demakase shinshi
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto leads the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy to defeat the American Fleet.
Admiral Yamamoto and the Allied Fleets
15th in the 17 film Daiei "Woman Gambler" series
The Woman Gambler's Trump Card
Famed detective Dandy Sashichi tries to solve who's behind the serial murders of six beautiful women under the aegis of local showman Ibaragiya. The...
Casebooks of Dandy Sashichi: 6 Famous Beauties
Part 3 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series
The Pretty Jade
Tokyo Gambler
Headless Island