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Princess Finds Her Prince
お洒落狂女
Early film by Eiichi Kudô.
Bloody Account of Jirocho: Duel at Akiba
The story concerns the efforts of seven master swordsman who join together to protect the new inexperienced Shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune from the evil...
Kisaragi Sword
On New Year's Day 1716, Munenaga of Owari and Yoshinao of Kii were both named as candidates for the title of 8th Shogun. The wise and just Munenaga...
Samurai Vagabonds
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
1962 Japanese movie
Ōedo no taka
A dynamic story depicting the rise to power of Oda Nobunaga. The story of a young man on the battlefields of the Sengoku era, who possessed character...
Young Ruddy Warrior: Nobunaga Oda
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
Mukōmizu no kenka kasa
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
The conclusion of the story of famed swordsman, Sasaki Kojiro. After surviving a series of daring adventures, Kojiro seems to have finally discovered...
Sasaki Kojiro, Part 2
Five swordsmen are murdered and hung from a tree and the chase is on to find the killers. Two magistrates pursue the leads to solve the crime and it...
One-Eyed Wolf
Chûshingura - Zempen: Akahokyô no maki
A man working in a museum steals the Emperor's hat on display.
The Emperor's Hat
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
The ambiguous relationship between a woman musician and her young student.
Tsukiyo Karasu
First film adaptation of the kabuki play Benten Kozo, about a thief who steals from the rich and gives to the poor...
Benten kozo
Hakurai Bunmeigai
1954 Japanese movie
Sanada Ten Braves
Lord Gennosuke and Princess Yoshi are to be betrothed to one another, however Gennosuke is already in love with Suzue who is from a lower caste. The...
The Spear of Heroism
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
1951 Japanese movie. The characters of Mito Kōmon and Yaji and Kita are brought together
Kōmon to yajikita kara su-gumi ihen
Master swordsman and loyal vassal Saotome Mondonosuke goes on a mission to find a missing princess.
Bored Hatamoto: The Daimonji Conspiracy
short film about Banchō Sarayashiki.
Banchô sarayashiki
Lofty Ambitions
Yukinojō henge, Kanketsu-hen
A court fortune-teller loses his mind after a conspiracy leads to the death of his lover. Hope appears to be on the horizon after he becomes...
The Mad Fox
In late 19th century Tokyo, Kikunosuke Onoue, the adopted son of a legendary actor, himself an actor specializing in female roles, discovers that he...
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum
When Boss Juzo's Shinmachi Yakuza family struck fear into the hearts of his adversaries, Boss Shohei's Okabe Yakuza family with a merciless gang of...
Roughneck From Asama
9th film in the series about Lord Mito
Travels of Lord Mito Pt.9
First film of the The Black Hooded Man series.
Kaiketsu kuro zukin
Bloody Account of Jirocho: Raid on the Road
続南国太平記 薩南の嵐
Nangoku Taiheiki
Adaptation of the Riichi Yokomitsu novel.
The Sun
はだか大名 前篇
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
Based on the exploits of real-life historical character Magistrate Toyama no Kinsan, this exciting tale brings the “Demon Magistrate” as...
Magistrate of Dice
紺屋高尾
疾風愛憎峠
直八子供旅
Kabuki adaptation: A princess, a figure from the literary past who anticipates a modern woman, tempts a self-righteous priest.
The Beauty and the Dragon
The continuing adventures of the Jirocho gang.
The Kingdom of Jirocho 4
A historical scroll depicting the story of the tragic fate of the young samurai Minamoto Yoshitsune, based on the novel by Genzo Murakami. The action...
Minamoto Yoshitsune
Jigoku no kagebōshi
神変美女桜
Waka zakura kenka matoi
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
The story of a lovely "maiko" who bloomed in Gion. Three half-sisters play out a tale of tearful love between father and daughters against the...
祇園物語 春怨
In the midst of the Siege of Osaka in the Sengoku period, a thrilling tale unfolds featuring a trio of ronin who manipulate a group of spies, a...
豪快三人男
Tange Sazen interferes with an evil plot against the Iga Yagyu family.
Tange Sazen and the Princess
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
The Black Hooded Man 4
Okawa Hashizo is 'Red Peony' Hanji who is thrown into a prison cell where he gets involved in a plot to steal government gold from the Shogun's...
The Shogun's Vault
A humble page fathers a child by the daughter of a clan official and is banished. Years later, the child, now a stable boy, is reunited with his...
The Horse Boy
Swordfighting instructor Danpei works at a local theater in Tokyo, instructing the actors how to fight realistically.
Fencing Master
Japanese horror movie from 1955.
Mito Komon Travelogue: The Hunchback Man of the Ghost Castle
The famed ninja Yagyu Jubei fights to suppress a coup d’etat plotted against Tokugawa Shogunate.
The Yagyu Military Art: The One-Eyed Ninja
Shimizu Port of Chivalry
A man takes a job at an asylum with hopes of freeing his imprisoned wife.
A Page of Madness
A group of Iga ninja risk their lives to protect Tokugawa Ieyasu from the villianous Koga Ninja. Kagemaru uses his amazing Iga ninja skills to fight...
Kagemaru of the Iga Clan
This most celebrated all-star movie version of the popular series features Tsukigata Ryunosuke as Mito Komon, the sage who wanders the countryside...
Lord Mito
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
The year is 1805. Napoleon ruled Europe. Ienari is the 11th Tokugawa Shogun. An incident, which was an open official secret, took place on the...
Shadow Over Fuji
Tragicomic road movie set during the Edo period. It follows a samurai, his two servants – including spear-carrier Genpachi – and the...
Bloody Spear at Mount Fuji
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
In this first episode, we are introduced to Takezo, what Musashi used to be before he became the man of legend. His beginning are not exactly...
Miyamoto Musashi
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
The fifth and final installment with the build up of the epic battle between Sasaki Kojiro and Miyamoto Musashi. With all the familiar characters...
Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro
Taisuke is kind-hearted but overall lacks ambition. Taizo is smarter, but given to fits of emotion and impulsive violence. The samurai brothers fight...
Unwieldy Brothers
First part of the famous Dai-bosatsu toge trilogy, based on Kaizan Nakazato’s unfinished long series of novels (41 books, written from 1913 to...
Souls in the Moonlight
These are the first two parts of the popular series in which a young samurai learns that he is the illegitimate son of the Shogun. Hoping to reunite...
Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 1 and 2
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
The story of five easygoing Yakuza who come together to save the live of a young innocent girl, Oichi, from an evil vassal.
Five Ronins
The second film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass.
Merciless Blade Part 2
The final film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass.
Merciless Blade Part 3
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
Four ninja are hired to fight against the Shogunate’s plot to abolish the Gamo Clan, the regional barons struggling to reinstate their young...
The Ninja Hunt
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
A group of five law enforcers search Edo for a missing sword.
A Gang of Five
Organized thieves battle against the Shogun’s ruthless ruling in attempt to get back their land.
Black Thief
When master swordsman Mikogami Genshiro of the Ono fencing school returns to find that his ailing sensei has been murdered in the dead of night, he...
Sword of Destiny
In this gritty tale of gamblers battling in the samurai era, Okawa Hashizo gives perhaps his greatest performance as a gambler returning to his home...
The Great Duel
Adaptation of the novel by Kan Shimozawa.
Virtue in Spades
Knightly Advice
A successful textile industrialist from the provinces, who is beloved by his employees for his kindness, cannot find a wife because of a disfiguring...
Hero of the Red Light District
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
The mysterious black hooded man, Kurozukin, helps transport funds raised to fight against the government.
The Black Hooded Man 2
Detective Hanshichi (Kataoka Chiezo) solves 3 mysterious murder cases. Great story and an impressive all-star cast, a must see!
Cases of Hanshichi
Nakamura Yukinojo gains popularity in Edo's kabuki scene as a handsome onnagata (a male actor who plays female roles). But hidden behind the placid...
An Actor's Revenge
An onnagata (female impersonator) of a Kabuki troupe avenges his parents' deaths. Remade in 1963 as Yukinojô Henge.
This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their...
The Loyal 47 Ronin
One of Japan's most enduring stories is the true-life yakuza boss Jirocho of Shimizu and his gang as they took over the Tokaido Highroad and went on...
The Man Who Came to Shimizu Harbor
One of the great stories from Japan’s rich history comes to life in this true tale of the bloody showdown between two rival yakuza gangs in the...
A Spectacular Showdown
The Happy Wanderer
As Japan’s Tokugawa shogunate nears the end of its rule, Edo North Magistrate Toyama no Kinsan is called upon to judge the most difficult case...
Sakura Official
Lion Crest
Revenge breeds revenge. Ikuta Denpachiro, the martial arts instructor of the Honda family in Koriyama, lost a fight to the young samurai Enjo...
Temple of Revenge
Shimmering Sword
Bloody Record of the Shinsengumi
An Eagle Eyed Lord
Young Master Yakuza: Edoite Goblin
Love And Order
The Jumping Magistrate
The Bloody Cherry Blossom Magistrate
Oshidori kenkagasa
Two cowardly palanquin carriers know the culprit of a murder but are too scared to report it to the police. In the mean time, an innocent man is...
The Palanquin Carrier Magistrate
The Domain: Kanda Festival Showdown
Lair of the Snakegod
Young Lord Gentaro (Otomo Ryutaro) takes a journey to Edo in search of his future wife. Easier said than done, evil forces lurk in Edo and Gentaro...
The Lord Takes a Bride
Fishmonger Tasuke and Shogun Iemitsu swap their identities in pretence for the protection of Iemitsu.
The Shogun and the Fishmonger
The Tattooed Magistrate: Fallen Flowers Showdown Volume
Film about Ghost-cat.
Yaji Kita Cat Ghost Road
Jiruba no Tetsu
The Tattooed Lord