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Continuation of the film Once and For All about two yakuza brothers Joji and Goro.
Once and For All Pt.2
End of the Taisho period. In the city of Kiryu, where the wind is constantly blowing, the heads of the yakuza families of Kanhasshu (eight Kanto...
Chivalrous Man: Junkyard of Life
Set in the late thirteenth century, this film depicts the defense of southern Japan led by the Kono clan against the Mongol invasion in 1281.
Thus the Divine Wind Blows
Beginning of the Showa era, Takasaki City in Joshu (Gunma Province). Gambler Inufushi Yoichi continues to lose at Takamasa's gambling house. The...
Vermillion Sword: Scabbard Code Sword Amidst the Swirling Cherry Blossoms
With a price on his head, Ichi seeks tranquillity in a favorite village. Since his last visit, it has fallen prey to Boss Masagoro, the son of a...
Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo
An ambitious Kansai yakuza don moves in on Tokyo using financial and political tactics, sparking conflict with a local criminal association.
Japanese Godfather: Ambition
Jidai-geki about the life of Yasubei Nakayama, a famous ronin who did participate in the revenge against Lord Kira Yoshinaka as detailed in Japan's...
Yasubei Nakayama
Period film about the legendary detective Umon
Casebooks of Detective Umon: The Incident of the Fawn-Pattern Cloth
Jidai-geki starring Kanjuro Arashi
Sunset Over Mount Fuji
Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki
Tenpo Suikoden - Otone's Night Fog
Jidai-geki by Nobuo Nakagawa. Most likely a star vehicle for Kanjuro Arashi
Conduct Report on Matashiro: The Devil Princess and Winter Rain
A gang lord hires Kamimura, a hit man, to take out a rival boss who's gotten greedy.
A Colt Is My Passport
Meiji no kyōdai
A sadistic Daimyo (feudal lord) rapes a woman and murders both her and her husband, but even when one of his own vassals commits suicide to bring...
13 Assassins
Kurama Tengu is a 1928 black and white Japanese silent film with benshi accompaniment directed by Teppei Yamaguchi. It is a film which is a part of...
Kurama Tengu
Oryu searches for blind child she left behind and get involved in a Yakuza turf war that takes place in the Tokyo Theater.
Red Peony Gambler: Oryu's Return
The industrual revolution comes to Japan with the introduction of the railroad system. This led to clashes between boatmen, who livihoods are...
Red Peony Gambler: Second Generation Ceremony
The third chapter of the ‘Red Peony Gambler’ saga depicts the happiness and sadness of Red Peony Oryu’s life as she seals her...
Red Peony Gambler: Flower Cards Game
Kigeki Gyanburu Hisshôhô
Modern Sorority
Kokubu Masaru (Bunta Sugawara) is a hard-headed, hot-tempered member of a street vendor clan run by an elderly boss (Kanjuro Arashi). They come into...
Kanto Street Peddlers
When a priceless jewel owned by rich heiress Sabine is stolen, along with her daughter, Professional thief and hired killer Ryuichi Koga and his gang...
The Executioner II: Karate Inferno
The seventh chapter of the stunning Hibotan Bakuto series. Many years have passed since Oryu the Red Peony began her soul-searching journey after her...
Red Peony Gambler: Here to Kill You
A man dies in an automobile accident and returns as a white-haired demon and seeks revenge on his wife and her lover
White-haired Demon
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
This is Kanjûrô Arashi's first film with Nikkatsu after his independent production company went bankrupt (many of these independent...
Taikoki is a legendary biography of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who rose to the office of taikō. And the story of this film is about the rise to power...
Taiko's Rising in the World
This time around, Sashichi is investigating a case of serial murders believed to be perpetrated by a giant bear.
Casebooks of Dandy Sashichi: Naked Princess and Mysterious Bear Man
Masked avenger Kurama Tengu and his young sidekick try to stop a mysterious adversary from assassinating a group of young warriors who want to bring...
Kurama Tengu: Anonymous letter to Tengu
Set in Kyushu during the early Showa period, the son of a boss who is killed after a greedy boss takes over his territory, takes over and takes...
100 Gamblers
Directed by Daisuke Itô.
Tora-san befriends the descendant of a feudal lord. The man asks Tora to locate his deceased son's wife who resides somewhere in Tokyo.
Tora-san Meets His Lordship
Lord Asano Takumi-no-Kami Naganori was charged with receiving a group of envoys from the Imperial Court in Kyoto. He was young and slightly...
Chushingura: The Truth
“Dokuro sen” (The Skull Coin) is the first film adaptation of the popular novel by Kikuo Sumita. The story evolves around the seven...
The Skull Coin
The movie begins with a mysterious murder and Umon Kondo, a Doshin, so called drag-ass Umon, who dallies away lying sprawled all day long, launches...
Umon's First Exploit
Kusuo Abe stars in this kaidan.
Appeal on the Cross
右門捕物帖 片眼狼
Osaka, 1907: Asajiro lives between a rock and a hard place: he has to keep his business clean and running, tame his late oyabun’s hot-blooded...
Blood of Revenge
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
The 40th and final "Tengu Kurama" feature starring Kanjuro Arashi.
Gale Winds! Tengu Karama
Iso-no-genta's Sword
Ryō Hagiwara movie
Genta Shigure
Ocho is accidentally captured by a drug trafficking cartel who use Chinese women to smuggle drugs into Japan by hiding it in their vaginas. She is...
Female Yakuza Tale
The Frightful Era of Kurama Tengu is a 1928 black and white Japanese silent film with benshi accompaniment directed by Teppei Yamaguchi. It is part...
The Frightful Era of Kurama Tengu
俺は田舎のプレスリー
Two child performers lose their money, but are saved by the masked avenger Kurama Tengu. When the children return the favor in foiling an attempt on...
Kurama Tengu: Acrobat in a lion mask
Follows the struggles of a yakuza wife after his husband gets hurt in a knife fight.
The Elder Sister
1945 Japanese movie
花婿太閤記
Chivalrous Pride
Japanese action film.
Queen Bee and College Boy Ryu
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
In January 1904, the situation between Japan and Russia had grown tense. The Emperor Meiji is deeply concerned, for Russia has started to build an...
Emperor Meiji and General Nogi
最後の攘夷党
The masked avenger Kurama Tengu is linked to a plot to bring down the Tokugawa shogunate, but is it really our hero, or an imposter?
Karuma Tengu: The Fire Festival
First part - Edo at the end of the Edo period, when the wind and clouds were rising rapidly - The people gathered at Kiba late at night are Shinnojo...
Teru hi kumoru hi dainihen Part 01
When the aging leader of the yakuza gang Maeda-gumi decides to retire, many of the gang members have no confidence in the young man he has chosen to...
The Path of the King
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
Japan-Hong Kong co-production.
Secret Agent 101
Harada Kai, the Date clan's Chamberlain attempts to take power from the lord himself.
Traitors of the Blue Castle
After the massacre of Christians at Shimabara, followers of Amakusa Shiro band together in a plot to overthrow the shogunate in order to exact...
Decisive Battle at Kuroda Castle
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
1961 Japanese film about the Shinsengumi.
Fûun Shinsengumi
Japanese film, originally released in two parts.
Kyōen Kobanzame
Japanese comedy film released to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Shintoho's founding.
Holiday in Japan
The last fight put up by remaining forces and a special volunteer nursing corps in 1944-5.
The Pacific War and Himeyuri Corps
Japanese film.
稲妻奉行
1959 Japanese film.
決闘不動坂の大仇討
Japanese comedy film.
Tōkaidō yajikita chin dōchū
修羅八荒 猛襲伏魔殿
1956 Japanese film, originally released in two parts.
勤王? 佐幕? 女人曼陀羅
黄金奉行
Daitengu shutsugen
For the poor, Edo is Hell on Earth, starving under the rule of Tanuma Okitsugi, corrupt councilor to the shogun. But the courageous vagabond called...
The Shadow Avenger
1959 Japanese film, originally released in two parts.
復讐秘文字峠
Japanese film released to commemorate the 7th anniversary of Shintoho's founding.
Kenkyō edo-murasaki
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
Japanese war film.
皇室と戦争とわが民族
Japanese noir.
Rinchi
Yakuza Gang War is at the height in North Kyūshū Area in the summer of 1950, particularly between the Okagen Group and the rising Hashiden...
Dynamite Don-Don
A gripping tale of friendship set against the backdrop of Hokkaido. Shinichi sets out to earn a few honest dollars with which to bail a friend out of...
Prison Walls of Abashiri 4
The second Bounty Hunter film, when master killer Shikoro Ichibei takes up the cause of a group of farmers being driven to despair by the vile Lord...
The Fort of Death
Upon returning to his hometown of Nagasaki, recently released prisoner Tachibana Shinichi must rejoin the Asahi gang family in order to pay back a...
Prison Walls of Abashiri 3
Abashiri Prison is located in the coldest place in Japan. Two men, handcuffed together have escaped from the prison, one a yakuza, the other a petty...
Abashiri Prison
The Ni Family is the most well know and respected group of firefighters in the Kanto region. When their leader dies and the successor disappears,...
The Kanto Scarlet Cherry Gang
When Keiji Takama returns to Nagasaki, he finds many changes. The rights of the entertainment field that had been held by his family have been taken...
Showdown at Nagasaki
After the war, Kijima (Bunta Sugawara) returns to Tokyo where he meets Ôba (Noboru Andô), an Ex-Kamikaze pilot, and the two ruffians...
The Private Police
Two convicts just released from prison find a green bauble filled with diamonds — and try to prove they didn't steal it.
Prison Walls of Abashiri, Part 2
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
An important silent film survives, Kumahiko Nishina's Umon torimonocho rokuban tegara jinenji kidan (The Samurai Detective, aka The Detective Records...
Detective Umon's Diary, Story No. 6
A travelling group of young people running a pirate radio station from a small truck encounter an eccentric elderly couple who are on the run from...
Orange Road Express
A group of sinners involved in interconnected tales of murder, revenge, deceit and adultery all meet at the Gates of Hell.
Jigoku
A high-ranking yakuza rises to national notoriety.
Evil Boss vs. Henchmen
The plot is based on the novel "Akechi Samanosuke no Koi," the final work in a trilogy by Hiroshi Kato about the forced suicide of Oda Nobunaga at...
Honno-Ji in Flames
In a Toei all-star effort, Matsukata Hiroki, Otomo Ryutaro, and Konoe Jushiro combine to create an exciting black and white sequel to the classic...
Seventeen Ninja 2: The Great Battle
A number of recently released prisoners become involved in a racket with a rancher who is a rival to a neighboring landowner and wants to use the...
The Bullet and the Horse
Film concerning warring yakuza families.
Once and For All
The vassals of the Asano clan, who surrendered the castle & became wanderers, deceive the enemy and the public, wait for an opportunity to avenge...
Chushingura
Zoku seiun yakuza - ikari no otoko
A man from Osaka comes up to Tokyo to fight gangsterism.
The Marked Man
Bungo is released from prison to find his son Kenichi in the care of strangers. Teruko, the woman originally looking after the boy, was forced to...
Game of Chance 2
Inosuke, a former gangster, and his friends struggle to make a living as simple fishermen in this tale of chivalry and friendship among yakuza in the...
North Sea Chivalry
A story of friendship between a lone wolf judo expert and a youth.
Judo vs. Karate
First ninkyo yakuza picture at Toei directed by Teruo Ishii
Legends of Honor
Prison Tales
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
A boy born in a poor village in Tokushima spends his days idly until a chance meeting sets him on the road to becoming boss of Japan's largest gang.
Japan's Top Gangster
Based on Ito Hajime's original story, this is the seventh installment in the "Bangaichi" series, adapted jointly by Kamba Fumio and Matsuda Hiroo,...
Abashiri Prison: Duel in the Snow Country
This is the sixth film in the "Abashiri Series," based on an original idea by Hajime Ito, and written and directed by Teruo Ishii of "Operation Big...
Abashiri Prison: Duel in the South
Abashiri Prison: Duel in Hokkaido
Ogasawara Ikinokami
Sayoko is desperate to bear a child of her own, but her live-in boyfriend Shinsaku strenuously objects to the idea. One day, someone leaves behind a...
Heaven Sent
Emperor & Empress Meiji and the Sino-Japanese War
Ninkyo with Kôji Tsuruta. An elderly yakuza brother tries to clear an underling’s name.
Tears of Banishment
Abashiri Prison: Challenge to the Evil
Satsuma-bikyaku
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
Revenge of Jorurizaka 1: Attack at Onibushi Pass
Revenge at Jorurizaka 2: Bloody Battle at Dawn
Yukyo-retsuden
Sea Raiding Unit
Tokyo engineer Kariya arrives on a primitive tropical island, where he interacts with the Futori clan, to drill a well to power a sugar mill.
Profound Desires of the Gods
The ascetic houseboy of a Japanese lawyer bears witness to the secretive sexual relationship between the lawyer's assistant and the maid, the...
Poem
A fairly entertaining yarn told in somewhat broad strokes with Wakayama playing against type as a reformed-gambler-turned- Christian minister. Of...
Gambler's Code - Loyalty Offering