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Yamaotoko no Uta
When a nobleman finds a woman to be an obstacle to his growing political influence, he kills her and her cat and has their bodies immured in a wall....
The Ghost-Cat Cursed Wall
Early film directed by Kenji Misumi.
Asataro the Crow
1962 Japanese movie
Teppo Yasu no Shogai
Hebihime sama
Lord Mito Mitsukuni, the vice-shogun of the whole country, left the family estate and went on a trip to various provinces with his students...
Travels of Lord Mito
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
Film adaption by Kenji Misumi
The Fiery Magistrate
Adaptation of a famous Kyouka Izumi novel. Set in the early 1900's, it tells the story of the impossible love between a young scholar a beautiful...
Her Hidden Past
Learning of his family's collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the Golden Pavilion, must endure acute psychological...
Conflagration
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
In the early Edo period, among the pirate ships that roamed the seas near Ryukyu and Korea, there was a ship called the Sueyoshi, led by a man known...
女と海賊
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
Period drama based on the novel by Saisei Murō.
Jigoku bana
Early film by Kenji Misumi.
Flowery Brothers
The film won 1959 Blue Ribbon Awards for best actor Raizo Ichikawa and for best cinematography Kazuo Miyagawa. The film also won 1959 Kinema Junpo...
The Gay Masquerade
Lord Nobunaga's Early Days
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
In Kyoto a young kimono maker with traditional ideas gets involved with a married professor.
Night River
The mysterious Koga Ninja crushes the villains who are trying to take over the inheritance of the Omi castle owner using various means! A sword and...
Koga's Messenger
Zatoichi's trek through 88 temples to atone for his violent past is interrupted as he stumbles into a village terrorized by a violent yakuza boss.
Zatoichi's Pilgrimage
Legendary yakuza Shimizu Jirocho and his 28 henchmen travel the unruly path from a 'Fire Festival' in Akiba to a decisive battle by the Fujigawa.
Jirocho Fuji
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
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
[Period covered: 1595-1600] Third film in the famous shinobi no mono series. We last saw ninja Ishikawa Goemon (Raizo Ichikawa), as he was about to...
Shinobi no Mono 3: Resurrection
Kokubu, captain of his university's kendo team, is a mystery to those who know him: An ascetic dedicated to a point of obsession with the simplicity...
Ken
[Period Covered: 1570-1573] Towards the end of the Tenmon Era, Shogun Ashikaga`s powers were weakening by the day and many were there who planned to...
Shinobi no mono 8: The Three Enemies
Fifth film in the series. When Kyoshiro, in a moment of weakness, saves the life of a woman being attacked on the road, he quickly finds himself...
Sleepy Eyes of Death 5: Sword of Fire
Film directed by Kenji Misumi.
Gambler and the Princess
Sixth film in the series. A little boy who just wants to be a carpenter is at the center of a plot that might topple -- or save -- a mighty Clan,...
Sleepy Eyes of Death 6: Sword of Satan
The Lord Pretends
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
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
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
Mangorō Tengu
Kayama Ichinoshin (Raizo Ichikawa) has been traveling for ten years in search of revenge for his father. One day, Ichinoshin reunites with his...
Flowers of Chivalry
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
Inazuma Kaidō
Dianas of the Campus
Inochi wo Kakeru Otoko
Sudden Attack of the Christian Lord
The Informer
A 1961 film directed by Yoshiyuki Kuroda.
Oniisan to oneesan
A film about young wandering Yakuza. Yukio Hashi's first film role.
Straw hat of Itako