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In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a defeated army, stumble upon a mysterious man who...
The Hidden Fortress
A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun, Japan's most powerful clan leader....
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
1961 Japanese movie
腕まくり七色娘
Early film directed by Kenji Misumi.
Asataro the Crow
1962 Japanese movie
I am the Judge
新遊侠伝 遊侠往来
Early film by Eiichi Kudô.
Bloody Account of Jirocho: Duel at Akiba
Hashizo Okawa in the form of a courageous firefighter who confronts unscrupulous traders who make a profit even at the cost of human lives. A fireman...
Glorious Standard Bearer
It's fighting fires and swordsmen with a touch of music in this free-for-all of action and excitement combining the talents of Japan's most popular...
Cantankerous Edo
前科・仮釈放
旗本退屈男 謎の幽霊船
Tai Kato’s early 20th century set yakuza epic about an ordinary merchant girl (Hiroko Maki) who crosses paths with an assassin (Tetsuya...
The Blossom and the Sword
An all-star cast highlights this Jidai-Geki classic. Set in the samurai era, this is the tale of period Yakuza. One of the real classics in this...
A Chivalrous Spirit
Hell's Companion
When Tornado Joe is wrongly accused of distributing counterfeit banknotes, he gets on a mission to clear his name and challenge the mastermind behind...
Notorious Bastard
Rebel Against Glory
This suspense drama set in the mid 1700's depicts the plan of the Tokugawa rulers to send a number of homeless men to a remote island Sado to perform...
Escape from Hell
喜劇 男の顔は人生よ
School teachers responsible for the lives of their students work to evacuate Allied bombings near the end of WWII.
All My Children
Kojiki taishō
A brave warrior fights to restore peace to a town riddled by crime, one sword at a time, in this historical action saga.
The Rule for a Vagabond
Two rival gangs of gangsters clash for dominance of a neighborhood.
Gang vs. G-Men
During the Age Of Wars (Sengoku Era), Tokugawa Ieyasu and Toyotomi Hideyoshi are vying for power and each uses their secret weapons in order to try...
Torawakamaru, the Koga Ninja
Every year, at the festival, familiar merchants such as Toraemon, a magic trick, Tokubei, a blowgun, Kaji, acrobatics, and Unsaibo, a ritual, gather...
Omatsuri hanjiro
Rokurō starts a part-time job on a fishing boat, but the ship has an engine failure in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
East China Sea
If You're Man Enough
Kansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea. He enters the service of Takeda, the lord of Kai domain. He...
Samurai Banners
Hana to ryu: Toshio Masuda directed movie
Hana to ryu
In a military family, an illegitimate son is brutalized by his brothers. A patriarchal, feudalistic household where dissent is forbidden is used to...
Stepbrothers
High School Geisha
Hoshi no hitomi o motsu otoko
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war...
The Eagle of the Pacific
Bloody Account of Jirocho: Raid on the Road
風来物語 あばれ飛車
River Washes Away the Moon
直八子供旅
A woman abandoned by the man she loved all her life becomes a ghost and takes revenge for her offense!
Ghost Story: One Eyed Jizo
A 1967 crime film
The Return of the Filthy Seven
Japan, February 1868. As the Tokugawa shogunate declines and the power of Emperor Meiji grows, Gonzo, a soldier of the Restoration Army, returns to...
Red Lion
Pirates
In the 9th year of the Tempo era, after a long sea voyage, Moritaya Seizo returned to Hirado, who earned huge amounts of gold by piracy. Along the...
Hirado Pirates
The second film about the adventures of Chosichiro Matsudaira. This time he fights against conspirators whose goal is to replace the 4th Shogun...
The Travel notes of Choshichiro - Peregrine Goblin
Shinsuke Inaba, a thief who snuck into the Kishu family residence in Edo. He was almost discovered by a patrol, but he is helped by Kajio, a woman...
Wild Palanquin
Gekkyū dorobō
G-men of Japan fifth installment. A young detective, questioning a double suicide involving his police officer friend and a Turkish girl, travels...
G-men of Japan 5: Skyscraper Wolves
Uragirimono wa jigoku daze
In the middle of the era, Taisho, a big boss in Asakusa Iizuka, was severely questioned by the police about the source of funds for the Daido...
Chivalrous Life
Unlike traditional gangster movies, it is a gangster swashbuckler that mixes romance and humanity with a yakuza lover as the main character. A young...
Ruthless Gambler
Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the...
Throne of Blood
The 40th and final "Tengu Kurama" feature starring Kanjuro Arashi.
Gale Winds! Tengu Karama
Tenth film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.
Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 10 - The Woman Who Nails Ghost Stories
Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemployed, and with no family, he hopes to find...
Harakiri
The Dancer and Two Warriors
1959 Japanese film.
決闘不動坂の大仇討
On a passenger ship to Japan, the journalist Kawase encounters a man who claims to be a Filipino, but Kawase believes he is a murder suspect who fled...
A World For Two
Japanese film.
黄金奉行
1954 Japanese film starring professional wrestler Rikidozan.
Rikidozan no tetsuwan kyojin
Shimizu Port of Chivalry
This time, sword-saint Yagyu Jubei battles the evil corruption in Akizuki Village, with the help of his friend, a samurai named Matashichiro. This...
Yagyu Chronicles 3: The Valley of Outlaws
A young girl works as a geisha to earn money for travel.
Three Little Geisha
旗本退屈男 謎の紅蓮塔
A university student moves into an apartment building and becomes involved with a waitress. The landlord then attempts to evict the tenants and sell...
Black River
Shiba, a wandering ronin, encounters a band of peasants who have kidnapped the daughter of their dictatorial magistrate, in hopes of coercing from...
Three Outlaw Samurai
A young son of a master of the Kuwana clan gets disowned for his rebellious behavior. After he goes from the mountains to the ocean defeating the...
Fine Man
One of Japan’s most popular folklore characters, Tange Sazen, the one-eyed and one-armed swordsman, must rescue the Yagyu clan from the...
Secret of The Golden Spell
An adventurous and daring sailor sets sail to the castle of an ailing king to stop an evil premier, hungry for power and wealth, from succeeding the...
Samurai Pirate
Ichikawa Raizo’s last film. He plays a Yakuza enforcer who kills a man on his boss's orders. He’s then sent to a provincial town to lie...
Sworn Brothers
Fearless girl firefighter Oharu and skilled firefighter Shintaro battle against their evil rivals who threaten to take over Oharu’s...
Girl with the Fire Banner
Tokyo hoodlums travel to Osaka and enter into rivalry with the local gangsters.
Wolves of the City, Operation "Rat"
Japanese comedy film.
浮かれ狐千本櫻
After their father quarrels with local military men, Anju and Zushio are forced to flee, but they are captured and sold into slavery. When their...
The Orphan Brother
The eighth film in the "master detective with seven faces" series. Bannachi patrols the town in his taxi when he sees a man heading into Shiodome...
Seven Masks of Revenge
Somewhat unique as it appears to be one of the very rare appearances of master thespian Itô in a yakuza role.
Greatest Boss of the Showa Era
The hoodlum group tries to help a little printing factory against gangsters.
Wolves of the City, Money Hunters
Detective Tarao investigates the deaths of police officers who were involved in solving a kidnapping case.
The Man of Seven Faces
An investigation into a drug smuggler who is assassinated in front of an insurance building sets two detectives, Sumikawa and Akine, into a sprawling...
Tokyo Bay
An undercover cop befriends a yakuza underling who through his contacts helps him infiltrate two rival Yakuza gangs. He pits the two rival gangs...
A Kamikaze Cop
An adventure of a feisty girl Oyuki and Santa, a homeless child she saves.
A Young Rabble 2
Wada Kōji is a chivalrous young man who leads a group of youths that take on a yakuza boss.
Living by Karate
Farmer Abare Goemon is confronted by brigand-like samurai. He raises an army of farmers to fight them and does so brilliantly. When Lord Asakura sees...
Rise Against the Sword
Misawa Ihei (Nagato) is traveling with his wife Tae (Iwashita Shima) who abhors the practice of sword fighting for prize money. Tae is the daughter...
Samurai from Nowhere
A young girl moves to Tokyo and endures the rivalries between other high school girls of varying cultural and economic backgrounds.
Young Tree
This film focuses on Okatsu; the adopted daughter of a master swordsman. She is a master with a sword herself and her talents far overshadow that of...
Quick-draw Okatsu
In 1936 under the war clouds over the Manchurian border, 60-year-old Oshima Shozaburo is concerned about the future of his only son, Ryuji, who has...
The Symbol of a Man
G-men challenge a jewelry smuggling ring. The chase starts in Kyushu and continues to Kobe to Yokohama.
G-Men in the Pacific
Jirocho's Home-Coming
Jirocho the gambler hits the road.
Jirocho Begins His Roving Life
A retired racing champion, now a driving instructor, gets involved with the speed tribes after impulsively taking to the streets to relive his former...
Hairpin Circus
When a corrupt magistrate rapes Oshima, Masa (Raizō Ichikawa) avenges her by killing the officer, becoming thereby a fugitive, haunted and...
Seven Miles to Nakayama
The background is Yuraku-cho in Tokyo and the film shows how desperately the women, who had led sheltered lives before the war, struggled to keep...
Gate of Flesh
Film from 1967.
Burning Nature
When the plague threatens a small town in Manchuria, a young doctor finds himself struggling to save the lives of his townspeople.
The Sand City in Manchuria
Seeking revenge against the guard who tormented him, a young man returns to the island where he was imprisoned in reform school. But his plans for...
Captive's Island
Goro Fujikawa (Tetsuya Watari) was indebted to Mitsugimoto. Sawada, a low rank yakuza with a gambling problem owed Mitsugimoto three million yen....
Outlaw: Heartless
Also known as "History of a Man’s Face" and "By a Man's Face Shall You Know Him" . Immigrant gangs terrorize a Japanese town with their...
By a Man's Face Shall You Know Him
Two guardians of the Nijo Castle, Shioya and Kamazawa, discover a map leading to a secret passage to Edo Castle. Instead of reporting their find to...
Fireball Magistrate
Dramatic story of one man trying to make a difference.
Human Revolution II
A murdered pawnbroker found clutching a blood-soaked wedding gown, the kidnapped daughter of a Shogun vassal, mysterious robberies, brutal killings,...
Case of a Young Lord 4: Bridal Robe in Blood
The Princess Says No
Police Precinct
A skilled assassin's services are called upon to put an end to the ugly turf battle between two yakuza families, Mitsuwa and Aikawa. Forced by the...
Vanquished Foes
A samurai thief fights a gang of ghostly thieves using scorpions for treasure in the unexplored Shinano region, which is guarded by a descendant of...
Golden Valley
A narcotics investigator for the harbor police, Eiichi Tsuda, is driven by thoughts of vengeance for the overdose death of his brother and the...
The Black Fury
Zenigata Heiji: Ghost Lord
Oshidori kenkagasa
Tossing his hat in the air to pick a direction, Yataro the wanderer sets out on a journey of adventure, not knowing what tomorrow may bring. The son...
Yakuza of Ina
Fighting Birds
The Gambling Samurai
Japanese crime film
Rising Dragon: Soft Skin Gambler
Jidaigeki film from 1960
The Swordsman In The Golden Valley
Windy Street
1964 Japanese movie
Garakuta