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TULIP (The Undercover Line of International Police) is a New York-based international police force in direct opposition to the criminal organization...
Spycatcher J3: SOS Close Shave
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
It's a rare occasion when a noted filmmaker like Yamauchi Tetsuya gets to re-visit a previous film, and in this re-make of NINJA GARI, he not only...
Ninja Hunt
A war widow determined to clear the name of her disgraced husband, who was court-martialed for desertion and executed. Official records have been...
Under the Flag of the Rising Sun
In a village subsisting on its herring fishery, a one-eyed criminal named Jakoman terrorizes the inhabitants. One of them, the son of the head of one...
Jakoman and Tetsu
After the events of the previous film, the 17 years-old Sukeban Deka III, Yui Kazama, works for the Juvenile Security Bureau along with her older...
Sukeban Deka the Movie 2: Counter-Attack of the Kazama Sisters
Like Fire is My Life
旗本退屈男 謎の幽霊船
A series of grisly murders with strange claw marks lead Mito Komon into discovering a deadly plan that involves a strange gorilla creature.
Travels of Lord Mito Pt.7
Assassin Nanjo goes on a solitary mission to take revenge on the man who trapped him into a complicated drug deal.
An Outlaw
A 1970 juvenile delinquent drama.
A Young Man's Stronghold
After a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he recounts his gruesome family history which saw generations of his ancestors suffer and...
Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
Hell's Companion
Orders from Hell
A tale of three Yakuza gamblers who traveled Japan during the samurai era living by their wits and sword skills. Told in 3 separate vignettes, each...
Three Yakuza
A gang plans to steal twenty billion yen by safecracking tactics; however, they discover that one of the gang members is an infiltrating cop.
Gang and G-Men Part 2
Sagano no yado
1962 Japanese movie
Zankokuna tsuki
In the middle of the Edo period, when the finances of the shogunate were in a desperate situation, the shogunate sent its shadow spies to each clan,...
Shadow Hunters
The first film with Tetsuro Tamba as a detective. An exciting drama about the pursuit of a criminal, which takes place in Yokohama. Tamba...
Detective
This film tells about the murder of Lieutenant Colonel Aikawa, the head of the Bureau of Military Affairs, about the beginning of the incident 2.26...
Homicide
Second part of an epic drama of war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Godai family from 1935 through Japan's invasion of...
Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow
Final part of epic drama about war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Godai family through the Sino-Japanese War through...
Men and War III: The Final Chapter
9th film in the series about Lord Mito
Travels of Lord Mito Pt.9
After the war, many filmmakers were expelled from the Japanese film industry due to the Toho Dispute and the Red Purge. Amid such circumstances,...
Sat-chan Tadashi-chan: Sengo minshu-teki dokuritsu pro funtō-ki
Kyojin-gun monogatari: Susume eikô e
Drama about the lives of seasonal migrant workers in Kashima
Kashima-nada no onna
Curry Rice
Uragirimono wa jigoku daze
Follows the struggles of a yakuza wife after his husband gets hurt in a knife fight.
The Elder Sister
1963 Toei war / action film.
Element of Surprise
The daughter of the silk goods wholesaler, Sohbei Yamashiro, Oiku, was found murdered in the storehouse by her fiancé, Bunjiro. Upon receiving...
若さま侍捕物帖魔の死美人屋敷
Chiezo's two-guns-at-all-costs film, directed by Ozawa Shigehiro (Kengo Tengu Matsuri) from a screenplay by Matsuura Kenro (The Dice Magistrate)....
Amazon mushuku seiki no dai maō
One after another, expedition teams were being attacked in the Himalayas. With the unprecedented boom in snow men, the public began to make a fuss...
Himalayan Wanderer
Ishihama is planning a casino robbery with his wife and mother-in-law. They meet a man named Tsuneda who is planning the same robbery and agree to...
All Rascals
Oshima, a rich girl married Shinzo, and her cousin girl Sawa has been jealous of Oshima deeply. Sawa cursed Oshima so Shinzo could not hold her and...
The Possessed
Japanese horror movie from 1955.
Mito Komon Travelogue: The Hunchback Man of the Ghost Castle
The story of Japan’s greatest warrior, Miyamoto Musashi, after his historic duel with Sasaki Kojiro on Ganryu Island.
Swordsman of the Two Sword Style
Vice Admiral Takajiro Ohnishi could see that Japan's defeat in WWII was inevitable. He came to realize that the only way to force a negotiated...
Father of the Kamikaze
A touching story depicting the harsh lives of farmers in Kasumigaura. An attempt to start a fishery business to revive an ailing farming community...
Rice
The Harbor Lights
Sabu and his pals hold a pauper's funeral for Sabu's mother. His brother Jiro arrives home, fresh out of jail, and Sabu pointedly states that Jiro is...
Wolves, Pigs & Men
A hunchbacked caretaker presides over a forlorn mansion inhabited by the ghosts of his previous masters. An unbelieving trio (a doctor, his assistant...
House of Terrors
A gang of bank robbers plan a big robbery, but they all plot to betray each other after the heist for different reasons.
Flower, Storm and Gangster
A boss of underworld helps the police crush an evil gang.
Rascals! Go to Hell
The love between young college students Toki and the handsome Takaga is tested when Takaya's parents, who despise Toki's family's geisha house...
Romance Freestyle
Just when you think Kyoshiro's life can't get any stranger, someone starts running around raping and murdering, and leaving notes proudly proclaiming...
Sleepy Eyes of Death 12: Castle Menagerie
Koharu, a young geisha, is in love with Kenichi, an apprentice carpenter to her father Masagoro. Their love life comes to a sudden halt after an...
The Prickly Mouthed Geisha
Sayuri, a young woman born to a simple life on a farm, moves to Tokyo to pursue a life long dream of becoming a singer. Through dance, music, and...
With Songs in My Heart
A young woman tries to keep her family together after her father disowns her sister.
The Tokyo Dame
A man challenges a territorial fight between gangs.
The Sentencer
In the fourth installment, Musashi's potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of the story at the oddest and most coincidental moments....
Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijo Temple
Set during the declining years of the Tokugawa shogunate, Shadow Hunters details the questionably noble exploits of three ronin who act as "Shadow...
After World War II, their town was a pile of rubble. Gennosuke, the second generation boss of the Kamizu Group was upholding yakuza chivalry by...
Brutal Tales of Chivalry
G-men challenge a jewelry smuggling ring. The chase starts in Kyushu and continues to Kobe to Yokohama.
G-Men in the Pacific
Tsunokichi and Ken face off against a rival yakuza in Kyushu.
The Second Bullet is Marked
Detective Tarao investigates the deaths of police officers who were involved in solving a kidnapping case.
The Man of Seven Faces
The remake of Yoshikawa's novel continues with the second installment in which Takezo, soon to be Miyamoto Musashi, emerges from the Himeji Castle...
Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights
A story about a spear master’s spiritual and martial discipline.
Showdown at Lightning Pass
In the third installment of Yoshikawa's novel Musashi, things continue from the 2nd film at the end of battle, where Miyamoto continues on a mission...
Miyamoto Musashi: Birth of Two Sword Style
Natsuko, a Tokyo bar proprietress, and Yuki, a Kyoto Ryokan owner, vie for the affections of an advertising professional.
Thirst for Love
A university student travels to a popular resort in the mountains for a summer job as a waiter and becomes romantically involved with an older woman...
Lady Karuizawa
A story of Minako who struggles finding love and peace in life. When Minako’s hope for ultimate happiness, marriage to her beloved...
Lakeside Figure
Gisuke Hayashida is an illegal dentist during the day and a burglar by night. One night during a burglary he witnesses a train derailment. Some...
Tale of Japanese Burglars
Based on the novel of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.
The Thinking Leaf
Film about the 2-26 Incident.
The Escape
The upstart Godai family conglomerate plans to strengthen ties with the hardliners in the Kwantung Army as they plan military expansion into...
Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny
Eleven Gangsters
A young, struggling couple are making every sacrifice so they will one day in the not-too-distant-future, have enough money to get married. As they...
The Naked Sun
Japanese family drama.
The Happy Family
A shooting incident occurs at the Asahina family gambling hall in Tokyo's Joto district. It is the work of Gaijin boss Brown and his henchman...
The Big Boss
Director Jun'ya Satô's debut film focuses on the inhuman training of recruits, the brutal drill system that reigned in the Japanese army during...
Tale of Army Brutality
Adaptation of novel.
Zoku ôsho
Atsumi Kiyoshi, famous for his role in Torasan, stars as Aoki Goichi, a veteran train conductor who dedicates himself in providing quality service to...
Express Train
An action-packed, dramatic gangster film.
Men in a Rough Town
A modern gang version of Chushingura, chronicling almost scene for scene the Brave 47 Ronin story, transposed from the Genroku Period to the Showa...
Gang Loyalty and Vengeance
A death occurs during a mountain-climbing expedition.
Confessions of a Wife
Junai Monogatari AKA Story of Pure Love is about two poor youths, Mitsuko and Kando, rebelling against society in various ways, who are desperately...
The Story of Pure Love
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
Adaptation of the novel by Kan Shimozawa.
Virtue in Spades
Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama...
The Eleventh Hour
Soccer movie.
Waga seishun no eleven
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
A story of the skilled brain surgeon, Todo, whose talent and ambition are put to test through a series of high risk surgical procedures.
Surgical Designs in Flames
Clumsy invaders from Neptune are thwarted by hero Space Chief and a nondescript group of microshort-wearing Japanese kids.
Invasion of the Neptune Men
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
Goro has always been a lone wolf. When he arrives at an industrial city in Keihin, there is certain restlessness in the air. The Iriezaki family and...
Outlaw: Kill!
A man who survived the war carries the will of his comrades in arms, walking across the country visiting the bereaved families.
My Voiceless Friends
Set at the end of the feudal period. A woman spends most of her early life in prison, incarcerated by political opponents of her father. When she is...
A Woman Called En
Okawa Hashizo as 'Young Lord', the unlikely sleuth sets out to untangle the riddle of what went on at the Inner Palace, where a young woman who had...
Case of a Young Lord 3
Tomu Uchida's Gyakushu Gokumon Toride is a masterpiece which treats class struggle in the end of Samurai era(it's a fiction). The story is based on...
Rebellion from Below
The Happy Wanderer
Hell's Juggler
A suspense work based on the "Miyagi Incident," an attempted coup d'etat led by some officers working for the Ministry of the Defense and the General...
Mid-August Commotion
Secret
City
Territory of the Night
A tale of two best friends in the WWII era Japan. Takao is a young man enthusiastic about joining the navy to fight for his country. He convinces his...
The Navy