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Jidaigeki film, only a fragment remains of the original film.
Hotta Hayato
Lantern Under a Full Moon
Lesser, but still modestly entertaining sequel. Wakayama is wonderfully bastardly here, but has to do without Chicago bros. Yamashiro & Watanabe and...
Capone's Younger Brother: Heart and Speculation
Princess Finds Her Prince
While on his journey through the countryside of Japan, Shingo encounters many people whose lives have been affected by his actions. Though the many...
20 Duels of Young Shingo - Conclusion
Matsugoro is a poor rickshaw driver whose animated spirit and optimistic demeanor make him a favorite of the town. Matsu helps an injured boy,...
The Life of Matsu the Untamed
A small-town boy with a learning disability attempts to fit in with his classmates.
Children Hand in Hand
The film depicts the scarring of Yosaburo at the hands of yakuza thugs who catch him with mistress of the gang boss. Despite the physical and...
Scarred Yosaburo
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
The purple hood reveals the embezzlement of public money by officials. A remake of Masahiro Makino's 1923 film.
Saheiji’s Casebooks: The Purple Hood
A gripping historical drama that follows the explosive growth of Katsu Kaishu, the hero of the Meiji era, and the interesting human image of his...
Wild Lion
The adventures of Aoi Shingo continue. Shingo is finally given permission to officially meet his father, the Shogun. However, his journey is...
Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 3
When Wabisuke's father-in-law unexpectedly dies, the family goes through a series of random events and occurrences as the funeral unfolds over three...
The Funeral
Directed by Mansaku Itami.
Professional Killer
1962 Japanese movie
八幡鳩九郎
Magistrate Ooka and a samurai fight against evil forces.
Ooka Seidan: Devil Image
お洒落狂女
Hebihime sama
Jidai-geki by Nobuo Nakagawa. Most likely a star vehicle for Kanjuro Arashi
Conduct Report on Matashiro: The Devil Princess and Winter Rain
The Flower That Crossed the Mountain
Firefighter Sanji learns the secret of his birth.
Glorious Firefighter’s Standard
170 Leagues to Edo
1960 version of Lion Festival of Echigo
越後獅子祭
One of Japanese folklore's most popular characters is brought to life on the silver screen in this terrific version of legendary Demon slaying Peach...
Freelance Samurai
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
Saotome, a sword master and guard of the Shogunate, pursues the mystery of a deadly aerial weapon that is responsible for the multiple deaths in town.
The Acrobats of Death
After being expelled from the Chiba Dojo , Hirate Zoshu , along with his acquaintances Tadaki Ganryu and Tamon Jubei, were hired as bodyguards by...
Shunjû ittôryû
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
From the late 1500's through the founding of the Tokugawa Shogunate many battles were fought as the great warlords vied for power over the nation....
Lady Sen and Hideyori
Sabakareru Echizen no kami
Kabe no naka no bijo
Judge of the Ashuras
A Man from Akagi
Song of Love
Meiji no kyōdai
Trouble Over Swords and Women: A Woman's Mind
film directed by Tai Katô
Trouble Over Swords and Women: Sword Light and Shooting Star
After settling the matter of shogunal succession, the retired Old Lord of Mito finds himself in a sea of trouble when he gets involved in the...
Lord Mito 2: The Nation's Vice Shogun
The basic story in Love under the Crucifix is about Ogin, daughter of a tea master, who are both Christians in feudal Japan. Ogin falls in love with...
Love Under the Crucifix
Doburoku no Tatsu
Ryunosuke, a gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate rule, has no moral code and kills without remorse....
The Sword of Doom
Ippon-gatana dohyo iri
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
Learning of his family's collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the Golden Pavilion, must endure acute psychological...
Conflagration
The film takes place at the junction of the two eras of Meiji and Taisho. Sakata Sankichi, an uneducated zori sandal maker, becomes a professional...
The King
Yataro's Hat - Comings and Goings
1955 Japanese movie
旗本退屈男 謎の決闘状
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
Hiroshi Inagaki's first movie.
Tenka taiheiki
A group of bandits flee to the mountains after killing an evil moneylender. Remake of Hiroshi Inagaki's Jigoku no mushi (1938).
Hell Worms
Kojiki taishō
A dashing edition with fights , love, and laughter, in which the sorrows and joys of the guiltless world are colored by the guiltless travel crow,...
Road Warriors
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
A captivating operetta by Masahiro Makino based on Juppensha Ikku's humorous novel "Tōkaidōchū Hizakurige" starring Chiezo Kataoka and...
Yaji And Kita's Traveling Diary
Ryō Hagiwara movie
Genta Shigure
Film about Ghost-Cat.
Monsters Catcher Oedo Seven Changes
This is Kanjûrô Arashi's first film with Nikkatsu after his independent production company went bankrupt (many of these independent...
Kurama Tengu
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
Movie directed by Sadatsugu Matsuda
Wakasama samurai torimonochō o keshō kumo
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
The film is set in Kyoto at the end of the Tokugawa period, when there is a fierce clash between the supporters of the Emperor, who are fighting for...
New Tengu from Mount Kurama
Set in the middle of the Edo period (1603-1867), this tragic love story takes its cue from a celebrated historical case tried by magistrate Tadasuke...
What Price Love?
A classic wartime jidaigeki about the life of the famous samurai and first of the "Great Unifiers" of Japan, Oda Nobunaga, with Kataoka Chiezo and...
Oda Nobunaga
As the reputation of Sasaki Kojiro, who traveled through various provinces with his long sword seeking duels, began to spread, he was summoned by...
武蔵と小次郎
The phantom thief, known as the "Actor Kid", who was creating a stir in the Daimyo's mansion, especially in the inner chambers, was called Inaba...
お役者小僧
In the mountainous region of Koshu, Taikahara, there was an intense power struggle between the prominent families, Tamaki and Kakukura. Facing the...
The Brothers who Protect the Mountain
On March 11 in the seventh year of Tenpo (1836), a monk named Bennō, who fell in love with a geisha named Oshima, was publicly exposed at...
快盗三人吉三
During the tumultuous end of the Tokugawa shogunate, the Tengu Party rose in rebellion in Mito. Friends from their hometown, Tanaka Genzo and Fujita...
美男天狗党
Hatamoto Ooka Gentaro was deeply committed to a future with a beautiful girl named Omachi, a relationship facilitated by his love of the shamisen....
八州遊侠伝 白鷺三味線
Watanabe Kazuma and Kawai Matagorō from the Bizen Okayama Ikeda clan were close friends, but they inevitably became enemies after Matagorō...
荒木又右衛門
Okazaki Domain samurai Inaba Gotaro accidentally killed a superior while trying to save his beloved geisha, Ko-en. On the run, they were rescued by...
お役者小僧 江戸千両幟
Chiba Sōsaku, whose childhood name was Otome, was raised by his father Yukiuemon, the successor of the Hokushin Ittō-ryū style, and...
若き日の千葉周作
This period film is inspired by one of the most notorious scandals to have taken place in Edo-period Japan. The heroine, Ejima, was a lady of the...
Ejima and Ikushima
駿河遊侠傳 賭場荒し
Adaptation of Mito Kōmon.
Mito Kōmon's Rambling Journey: The Sword of the Soaring Dragon
Izayoi kaidō
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
First film of the The Black Hooded Man series.
Kaiketsu kuro zukin
Shinzō, the heir of the prominent Edo lumber dealer Yamashiroya, left home when his stubborn father, Chōzaemon, dismissed his lover, the...
大当り男一代
In the mid-Tokugawa period, a conflict arose over the "Seiryū Himon," a secret document left by the former shogun Iesai, bequeathing the eighth...
のんき侍大暴れ
Flowers on the Trail
Adaptation of the Riichi Yokomitsu novel.
The Sun
花吹雪男祭り
風来物語 あばれ飛車
風来物語任侠篇
This adaptation of a Hideji Hojo novel, about the historical uprising of the Kuroda clan in 1633, is told through the eyes of retainer, Daizen. As...
The Kuroda Affair
Period drama based on the novel by Saisei Murō.
Jigoku bana
“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
This 1956 adaptation of the novel with the same title puts more focus on the characters and their interactions than the previous version.
Ancient Coins
Kirimaru Kirigakure
Utaemon Ichikawa plays the role of Hikoshiro Navate, who has a strong sense of justice and opposes power and tyranny with his will and spirit.
Epic Crash
一本刀土俵入
The Further Adventures of Genta
Tekka Wakashū
Silent jidaigeki film
Miyamoto Musashi
The first part of an entertaining historical drama depicting the eventful story of the revenge of an actor with a strange fate, with a variety of...
The Revenge of Yukinojo, Part 1: Revenge and Love
Shogi, a Japanese form of chess, is a game that requires skill and determination. When poor sandal-maker Sakata decides to pursue his dream of...
The Grand Master
The tale of real-life Yakuza boss Shimizu Jirocho is told from his earliest beginnings as a gambler on the road as he forms his gang and sets out on...
The Kingdom of Jirocho 1
The third part of the story about feudal boss Jirocho and his underlings.
The Kingdom of Jirocho 3
Gotō Matabei is the most able and fierce samurai of the Kuroda clan. However, he gradually dislikes the ruthless personality of Kuroda Nagamasa...
Kojiki Taishô
Will the assassin take my life or will a beautiful woman take my chastity? Or will a beautiful woman take your chastity? On the Tokaido Highway of...
Tabiwa Oiroke
鍔鳴浪人
Continuation of the biographical film about the monk Shinran, based on the novel by Eiji Yoshikawa. Shinran, born of the fading aristocratic class,...
Shinran, Part II
He was married to his lover's butterfly and started a new residence. But good things do not last. In his uncle, Uzaemon in Kawashima, Yoshiji Akaji,...
Jirocho’s Days of Youth: The Youngest Boss in the Tokai Region
The second part of an entertaining historical drama depicting the eventful story of the revenge of an actor with a strange fate, with a variety of...
The Revenge of Yukinojo, Part 2: Dance of Revenge
The final, third part of an entertaining historical drama depicting the eventful story of the revenge of an actor with a strange fate, with a variety...
The Revenge of Yukinojo, Part 3: Sword of Revenge
Forty-seven Ronin of the Ako clan are waiting for the right moment to avenge the insult and death of their master. The film tells the story of one of...
Akagaki Genzo
A man is brutally murdered and his famed shamisen (a three-stringed musical instrument) called the "Yamabiko" stolen. Prince Kogenta swears to avenge...
Echo of Love
A Golden Age drama depicting the exploits of passionate patriot Uotaro Toge in the midst of a mysterious standoff over the Secret Book of Aoi, which...
Aoi Secret Book
A variety of characters, including ninja Noto, a swordsman disguised as a komuso monk, and a young samurai chasing them, participate in a chaotic...
The Duel at the Satta Pass
A village samurai with money, power and great masculinity goes to the flourishing city of Edo to have some fun and practice. And here he is attacked...
A contest worth a thousand ryo: In search of a bride
In 1691 a terrible fire broke out in Denmacho, Yotsuya, burning down the towns around it, up to the shores of Shibaura. A month and a half later,...
Lord Mito: All Star Version
As Part I opens, Jubei (Denjiro Okochi), the best of sea skippers, is unable to overcome the stormy seas of Luzon. All hands on board the Kannonmaru...
Ghost Ship Part 1
The undercover agent Tsukinosuke Kigurumi successfully escapes with Kirisaku, who possesses the coveted Shinshu Mountain map targeted by the phantom...
Maboroshijō dainiwa shi no senpū
Mt. Norikura's natural fortress, the phantom castle. A white-clad iron mask, offering prayers to the eerie triple-faced deity of the Sennjogadake...
Maboroshijō daiichiwa Hida no uzushio
Early Japanese three-part samurai / fantasy serial.
Phantom Castle
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
1945 Japanese movie
Ikeru isu
The film tells about a young detective Zenigata Heiji who successfully solves a disgusting and unusual case involving the manufacture of counterfeit...
The Coin Thrower Zenigata
Lord Nobunaga's Early Days
東海水滸伝
1958 Japanese movie
Hana no yukyo-den
In medieval Japan, a woman and her children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was exiled years before.
Sansho the Bailiff
The Black Hooded Man 4
Kaidan Oiwa Yakusha
Japan, 1159. Moritō, a brave samurai, performs a heroic act by rescuing the lovely Kesa during a violent uprising. Moritō falls in love...
Gate of Hell
1947 Japanese movie
壮士劇場
The Yagyu Family have been teaching the Shinkage style of fencing for generations. Now a new fencing school has opened in Edo, claiming to be the...
Yagyu Chronicles 9: Assassin's Sword
A kabuki actress is murdered. Her pet cat laps its mistress's blood and becomes a demon possessed by the vengeful murder victim.
The Ghost Cat of Ouma Crossing
1942 Japanese movie
Miyamoto musashi Ichijōji kettō
Based on the popular story of the tragic lovers, Onatsu and Seijuro.
Onatsu and Seijuro
From the pen of Yoshikawa Eiji comes this exciting story. The Naruto Strait separates Tokushima from the islands of Awaji and Honshu. On Tokushima...
Secret of Naruto
1716, Yoshimune becomes the 8th Shogun as high Shogunate officials are attacked. While the government tries to keep these incidents under wraps, they...
Samurai Hawk
Young lord Saburo Nobuyasu struggles to find comfort in life. His arranged marriage to Tokuhime, daughter of one-time family enemy Oda Nobunaga,...
The Conspirator
Featuring some of the finest swordsmen ever to grace the silver screen, this Toei classic tells the story of a battle between the evil sword style...
No Stronger Swords
Shimizu Port of Chivalry
An umbrella maker with a shopping addiction finds himself in dire straits when his debts force him to consider selling his attractive, desirable...
Singing Lovebirds
As a result of a superstitious belief that twins bring bad luck to the family, newborn twin princesses are separated. Yukihime, who was sent away to...
A Martial Crowd
When Katsukawa, a low ranking vassal, learns that his greedy superior, Tatewaki, has hatched a plan to expand his territory, he and his comrades...
Seven from Edo
The adopted son of an Osaka courier falls in love with a prostitute and, discovering that she is about to be purchased by a client, steals money from...
Chikamatsu's Love in Osaka
In the fifth installment, Yagyu Jubei must prove the innocence of his family who is suspected of conspiring to take Shogun's life.
Yagyu Military Art: Jubei's Redemption
Story of a Beloved Wife is an autobiographical work based on Shindo's first marriage. Jūkichi Uno stars as a struggling screenwriter, and Nobuko...
Story of a Beloved Wife
Shinkichi, a peasant employed as a cloth-dyer, has a dream: in the midst of the civil war which ravages Japan, he hopes to revive the long-banned...
The Day the Sun Rose
During the war a man is bitten by a creature which looks like a cross between a bear and an ape in the jungle. Later he starts to transform to a...
Claws of Iron
A village struggles to survive when the nearby lake becomes barren of fish.
I Saw a Phantom Fish
旗本退屈男 どくろ屋敷
旗本退屈男 謎の紅蓮塔
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
This Japanese action-adventure is set in the 17th century when all forms of swordplay were banned. One fighter, an excellent swordsman believes the...
Young Swordsman
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
Soldiers Hayate and Yaheiji secretly escape from their besieged castle. Hayate has left behind his lover, Kano. On his way, Hayate is wounded and...
Sword for Hire
It is brother against brother in this tale of love and betrayal within the famed Yagyu clan. In one of their earliest films together, superstars...
Hidden Story of the Yagyu Clan
In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which, if revealed, would cause revolution and...
Yagyu Secret Scrolls
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
This film tells the story of a ronin's search for his parents, but primarily is a group portrait of life in a Tokugawa-era tenement.
The Elegant Swordsman
In old Edo, Kakunojo (Chiezo), a dandy about town, falls in love with Oichi (Isuzu Yamada), whose merchant family is much beyond Kakunojo's status....
Banquet Under the Midnight Sun
The film recounts the tragedy of a young outlaw.
Ishimatsu from the Forest
There is an inn named Asano Ya in the port town, and a beautiful woman works there. Every year, during a local festival, travelling artists and...
Festival Across the Sea
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
During the raging war between the Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans, the swordsman Mohei (whose family has been completely decimated) is recruited by...
Daredevil in the Castle
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 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
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
In the third, and final chapter of this epic tale, handsome swordsman Genji helps a vulnerable princess who is in search of a missing scroll that...
Tales of Young Genji Kuro 3
Sasaki Kojiro tells the story of the genius who staked his love, glory, and life on a duel with the supreme master of the sword, Miyamoto Musashi...
Kojiro
Young Sentaro struggles to avenge the murder of his younger sister Osuga and their father.
Snake Princess: Oshima and Sentaro
When the country is in peril, Lord Yagyu Tajima summons his son Yagyu Jubei to retrieve the mystical Yagyu Scroll in order to save all of Japan. This...
The Yagyu Military Art: Yagyu List
The serial killing of a samurai each night by strangulation at various temples confounds investigators and brings a chill to the residents of Edo....
Case of Umon: The Nanbanzame Murders
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
Famous enka singer Saburo Kitajima stars as Katsuji, a traveling craps artist who finds great camaraderie on the road.
Code Between Brothers
Early film directed by Eiichi Kudô.
Secrets of Fuji 2
This is the second installment of the trilogy based on Japan’s greatest novel “The Great Bodhisattva Pass”, following the life and...
Souls in the Moonlight II
Hanpei is a gentle young samurai that loves flowers. One day, he witnesses an old man's quick draw of the sword. He is so impressed that he becomes...
Sword Devil
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
Film directed by Kenji Misumi.
Gambler and the Princess
An adventurer and two accomplices unexpectedly invite themselves to a sword tournament and are offered a job with the lord who organized the...
Capricious Young Man
The Lord Pretends
A Thousand Flying Cranes
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 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
The tale of Nakayama Yasubei’s duel is famous, even if he in reality probably did not cut down 18 opponents. The story has been related in...
Blood Spilled at Takadanobaba
The first film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass.
Merciless Blade
Saburo Kitajima, one of Japan’s most famous Enka singers, returns in the fifth of the Kyodai Jingi series. During the early 20th century, Ryuji...
Code Between Brothers 5
This subversive period film features a hotheaded young samurai, Kurodo, who threatens to commit harakiri in response to the humiliation meted out to...
The Master Spearman
During the middle of the Kanei Period (1624-1644) Japan was in the early stages of its most peaceful era. This left a large number of unemployed...
Festival of Swordsmen
A Japanese drama featuring the one-eyed, one-armed swordsman
Sazen Tange: The Monkey Pot
1864. Samurai Shinbei is sent in a secret mission to Ezo, in the North of Japan, to stop riots of villagers commanded by Jirozaemon. A Russian...
Duel at Fort Ezo
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
Lord Oda Nobunaga gains control of nearly all of Japan and tries to enlist the aid of Magoichi and his 3.000 gunners.
The Magoichi Saga
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
Famed swordsman Araki Mataemon must face his best friend as they are forced to take opposite sides in a vendetta caused by the murder of a family...
Vengeance at Iga
During the Taiping Rebellion of the mid-19th century, anti-Qing (Manchu) Chinese forces led by Taiping commander Li Xiucheng march on Shanghai....
Signal Fires of Shanghai
Date Mosui, a young samurai, one day gets a scolding from a nameless ronin that sets him thinking about what life is all about and his ways of...
The Wandering Gambler
In 17th century Japan, Young Lord Masato returns after years abroad to find everything changed: his peace-loving father has died in what he soon...
Castle of Flames
An early fantasy film starring Tomisaburô Wakayama.
Gyakushû Orochimaru
Ito Daisuke's wartime retelling of the Miyamoto Musashi story.
Initiation of the Two-Sword Style
Fifteen years after Ishida Mitsunari lost in the battle of Sekigahara, Tokugawa Ieyasu foresees his unavoidable battle with Toyotomi Hideyori and...
The Red Shadow
Tange Sazen interferes with an evil plot against the Iga Yagyu family.
Tange Sazen and the Princess
An actor, hit on the head, dreams that he has become legendary one-eyed gangster Mori no Ishimatsu.
Zoku Shimizu Minato
The life, adventures and exploits of warlord Date Masamune the One-eyed Dragon: his early youth as an aggressive warrior, the battles he won until...
Date Masamune the One-Eyed Dragon
This is one of the most powerfully effective ninja films that dispenses with the silly magic of earlier efforts, and concentrates on an excellent...
Ukyunosuke on Patrol
A coward boy fencer becomes invisible and matchless through a magic pill.
The Invisible Swordsman
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their...
47 Ronin
Echo in the Mountains
Chuji and his family become the primary target of gangs in Nikko headed by Hasshu marshal Nakayama and boss Sukegoro Iioka. Chuji is then aided by...
Keepers of Order
While on the road, famed Yakuza Boss Jirocho is falsely accused of starting a peasant's uprising and chased by the law. Meanwhile, one of his...
Road of Chivalry
Knightly Advice
Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.
The Wiser Age
During a time of war, Lord Ogata is betrayed by two of his closest vassals and killed by his enemy, Sarashina Danjo. Ten years later, Lord Ogata's...
Ninja's Weapon
Gonza was a handsome young laborer, a footman and spear-carrier, working hard for his meager wage. All Gonza wanted was to marry his young...
Tragedy of the Coolie Samurai
In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearby village, in defiance of a local...
Ugetsu
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
Detective Hanshichi (Kataoka Chiezo) solves 3 mysterious murder cases. Great story and an impressive all-star cast, a must see!
Cases of Hanshichi
In Osaka during the Edo period, ruler Sanada Yukimura was in losing position, fearing Toyotomi's blood descendents would end, he impregnates one of...
Female Ninja Magic
A princess in disguise, Oshichi launches an investigation to reveal the truth about the disappearance of young women in Edo.
Mysteries of Edo
Tetsu, is a honourable and noble yakuza caught in a conflict between rival clans, and obligations each has toward their yakuza boss and brothers. A...
Showdown of Men 4: Tetsu, the White Tiger
Three young yakuza, Fujitaro, Matsugoro and Kanjuro, travel the country fighting evil.
Mark of Blood
A story of manly life and the beauty of conjugal love. A story about a man and a woman establishing a family of longshoreman, centering on their love...
The Flower and the Dragon
Blind masseur Zatoichi is nursed back to health by a young woman after he is shot by a gang member. Zatoichi, who had come to the village to repay a...
Zatoichi's Flashing Sword
In turbulent 16th-century Japan, the leaders of a minor fief have their child taken from them as a political hostage. His mother and his clan endure...
Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu
Namie's in trouble again, getting snatched by an evil gang in search of treasure. Kirimaru sets out to rescue his sweetheart, and falls in with a...
The South Sea Wolf
The story of Sanshiro Sugata, a young man who wants to learn the new art of judo. A wise teacher reveals to Sanshiro that judo is not merely a means...
Sugata Sanshiro
Special Forces commander Captain Tadamori returns to Kyoto after successfully defeating the uprising of pirates in the western sea of Japan. But...
Taira Clan Saga
A kindhearted wandering gambler named Hajiro gets involved in a crisis of a village as he passes through and decides to lend a sword in hopes to...
Hanjiro of Kusama: Bird of Passage
The shogun's vassal Harima Aoyama and a chamber maid are in love with each other, but they cannot be together due to a difference of their status....
A Samurai Never Tells a Lie
Kanazawa in the Taisho era. A former junior high school student, Ichiro's family used to be a large landowner, but now they are living in poverty...
On This Earth
Based on the exploits of real-life historical character Magistrate Toyama no Kinsan, this exciting tale brings the “Demon Magistrate” as...
Magistrate of Dice
Hanatarō Jumon
Young Boss: Invitation to Fight
Thief and Magistrate
The Second Son
Third and last movie in the Yakuza Hijoshi trilogy.
Yakuza Beasts-Blood Settlement
The Princess Says No
The Young Lord
Rikitaro and Osayo are popular entertainers who throw knives. They are sweethearts. At one day They help Ocho, who is a beautiful pickpocket when she...
The Magical Warrior
Peony on the Skin
Period drama directed by Yasushi Sasaki.
Lords of Oppression
Yutaro kodan
Lords of Oppression 2
Turbulent Highways
Ushiwakamaru
An Eagle Eyed Lord
This gripping historical drama depicts a clash of swordsmen, secret government spies, mysterious thieves, robbers and roving samurai who want to take...
Sword of Wind and Clouds
A Warrior Generation
Kamio a mistreated samurai clerk of Edo Castle and ronin (“Sir Quarrel”) Ibara, take up a vendetta against 17 wicked castle men.
Revenge for His Lover
Dedication of the Great Buddha is a 1952 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.
Dedication of the Great Buddha
Resurrection
The Well-known Magistrate
The Official And The Princess of Thieves
The Jumping Magistrate
The Fighting Magistrate
Zenigata Heiji: Ghost Lord
A costumed film featuring the famous hero of Japanese history, Isshin Tasuke, arranged in the form of a popular song.
Isshin Tasuke: Edoites Festival
Pirates Magistrate
Nezumi Kozō is the nickname of Nakamura Jirokichi, a Japanese thief and folk hero who lived in Edo during the Edo period. His exploits have been...
Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi
A 1946 Japanese film directed by Keigo Kimura.
Taki no shiraito
The Red Bat
Matashirō Fighting Journey
Migratory Birds of the Flowers
It is a historical drama that follows Katsu Kaishu's efforts to surrender Edo Castle bloodlessly in the first year of the Meiji period.
Last Days of Edo
A pair of down-on-their-luck swordsmen arrive in a dusty, windblown town, where they become involved in a local clan dispute. One, previously a...
Kill!
Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the...
Japan's Longest Day
1953 Hiroshi Inagaki movie.
Traveling with Breeze
In the midst of the depression, two ronin rack their brains to come up with a dishonest scheme. Taking a man from the countryside, they fashion him...
The Greatest Man in the World
Prewar jidaigeki starring Denjiro Okochi
Kuriyama Daizen
The Domain: Where The Blade Enters
Gantaro Path
Part of the Bored Hatamoto series. The most popular samurai in Edo, Saotome Mondonosuke, known to most as the "Bored Hatamoto" is the only one who...
Bored Hatamoto: Island of No Return
Jida-geki by Santaro Marune.
Goblin Courier
Based on the old tale of Jiraiya, this 1937 version is essentially a revenge story with fantastic visuals.
Jiraiya
Koina no Ginpei
Flowery Hood
The Gambling Samurai
Martial Arts Encyclopedia
Mangorō Tengu
Action and adventure abound in this story of friendship between two rival firefighters, Kichigoro and Jirokichi in old Japan. When Mukai Sadayu, the...
Edo Purebreed
Saotome Mondonosuke pursues the culprit who placed a malicious curse upon Shogun Tsunekichi.
Ninja Assassins
Fishmonger Tasuke and Shogun Iemitsu swap their identities in pretence for the protection of Iemitsu.
The Shogun and the Fishmonger
A film about young wandering Yakuza. Yukio Hashi's first film role.
Straw hat of Itako
The Tattooed Magistrate: Fallen Flowers Showdown Volume
Japanese horror drama movie from 1961.
Vampire Dead Beauty Carving
三万両五十三次
1961 Japanese movie
晴小袖