Kyōichi Satō

Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Michiyo Aratama

In the sixth and final film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, the final conflict between Ogami Itto and the Yagyu clan is carried out.

Genre: Action

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

This is the story of a vagrant samurai – the solitary, savage and scrupulous Kiba – who arrives at a village to defend a beautiful, blind...

Genre: Action

Cast: Isao Natsuyagi

Kiba Okaminosuke finds himself entangled with a group of prisoners being transported to their executions, one of whom oddly looks exactly like his...

Genre: Action

Cast: Isao Natsuyagi

A Ronin with a death wish reluctantly joins the Clan of the Forgotten Eight, a nasty crew of ronin who are wrapped up in a clan war over local...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tetsuro Tamba

A bad cop is engaged in a violent chase to catch a yakuza boss. In his absence his wife runs away with another man, who turns out to be the very same...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yoshio Harada

The Stranger comes across some bad guys trying to kill a Japanese emissary for a very important scroll. Before the emissary dies, he asks The...

Genre: Western

Cast: Tony Anthony

Three men sentenced to death are spared and changed into “shadows executioners”, a group of ruthless ninja working for mysterious high...

Genre: Action

Cast: Mariko Ishihara

A private detective is hired to find a missing man by his wife. While his search is unsuccessful, the detective's own life begins to resemble the man...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

The quiet life of a mother and her young son living on a farm in Hokkaido is changed by the arrival of a man who ignites flames of romance in the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

In this first film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, adapted from the manga by Kazuo Koike, we are told the story of the Lone Wolf and Cub's origin....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

Set in the icy wilderness of Hokkaido during the early days of the Meiji era, where the brutal warden of Kabato Prison terrorizes convicts sentenced...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

With a Kansai syndicate setting their sights on Tokyo, a former yakuza boss gets dragged back into a world of violence.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Noboru Andō

Bunta Sugawara is Miyoshi, a low-level assassin of the Yamamori gang who is sent to jail after a bungled hit. While in stir, family member Aoki...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

A detective tries to outwit a jewel thief who has kidnapped the daughter of a jeweler to get to an exquisite diamond.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Akihiro Miwa

The third movie following the exploits of bounty hunter Shikoro Ichibei. The theft of almost a half ton of gold from the shogunate's official mine...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

Rival gangs fight over ownership of bicycle race track.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ken Takakura

Shiba, a wandering ronin, encounters a band of peasants who have kidnapped the daughter of their dictatorial magistrate, in hopes of coercing from...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tetsuro Tamba

Genre: Action

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Exciting fight of a secret police detective over secret of a diamond.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Sonny Chiba

Japan, 1948: Hiroki Matsukata stars as a man facing a nine year prison sentence. He incites prisoners of Shimane Prison to the biggest riot in jail...

Genre: Action

Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

Kumokiri Nizaemon, a former samurai warrior, has abandoned his class to become the leader of a gang of thieves. He leads his outlaws in an attempt to...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

Legendary swordplay filmmaker Hideo Gosha's Sword of the Beast chronicles the flight of the low-level swordsman Gennosuke, who kills one of his...

Genre: Action

Cast: Mikijiro Hira

A karate master played by Sonny Chiba is attacked and left crippled and blinded in one eye. He trains his daughter (Etsuko Shihomi) with the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Etsuko Shihomi

Loyal samurai Samanosuke is attacked, mutilated, and left for dead while carrying out a mission for his clan. He recovers but has lost an eye and an...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

The eighth installment in the popular film series starring Tomisaburo Wakayama. Embarrassed by the chairman of the Seiyu-kai for not having a family...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

Fresh out of jail, a smart-mouth wise guy Goro takes the name “Big Brother Katsumata.” Not fitting in well with established gangs, he...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

After being used and betrayed by the detective she had fallen in love with, young Matsu is sent to a female prison full of sadistic guards and...

Genre: Action

Cast: Meiko Kaji

In the fifth film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto is challenged by five warriors, each has one fifth of Ogami's assassin fee and one...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

The lord of the Oshi fief is killed by his trespassing neighbour, the cruel and despotic Nariatsu, son of the former Shogun. After an investigation,...

Genre: Action

Cast: Isao Natsuyagi

Famous enka singer Saburo Kitajima stars as Katsuji, a traveling craps artist who finds great camaraderie on the road.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Saburo Kitajima

When a rebellious roughneck enlists in the Navy and goes on a rampage against his superiors, he is sent to the Yokosuka Naval Prison.

Genre: Action

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Suehiro Katsuji, a prisoner of Abashiri, is sent to Shikoku to work at a dock where a fierce turf battle takes place between a local gang and the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

Legendary detective returns

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Cast: Akira Kobayashi

When 150 guns are stolen from Iwakuni base and two police officers are shot dead, a detective criminal tries to find out the truth.

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Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

Part two.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hideo Murata

Zatoichi is a blind massage therapist and swordsman who finds out that something troubling is taking place on the outskirts of town. After...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Ryotatsu, the wayward Priest blinded by Shinkai, the Wicked Priest, has his own story in this ultra-violent tale from the era of the Meiji...

Genre: Action

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

After going to prison for killing the boss of the Kanno gang, Seji Iwahashi (Tatsuya Nakadai) gets released early -- only to find that his former...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

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Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

A group of prisoners attempts to break the Abashiri prison. This film can be considered a sequel to the Abashiri Bangaichi series, written and...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ken Takakura

A re-make of the classic story made for television in 1982.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tsutomu Isobe

A guilt-haunted samurai warrior attempts to stop a massacre taking place.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

Action drama about a Japanese gangster in Manchuria circa 1932, who finally joins some Chinese mountain bandits.

Genre: Action

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Shimamura is a violent street thug who joins the yakuza & is merciless & unscrupulous on his rise, lacking any sense of either duty or chivalry. When...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

In a strange outfit and full of youthful energy, the explosive Boss Kumatora raises hell like there's no tomorrow. The first movie of a new series...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

A disgraced yakuza member, framed for the murder of his boss, emerges from prison eight years later with revenge on his mind.

Genre: Action

Cast: Tsunehiko Watase

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Cast: Ken Takakura

The comical adventures of two long-distance truck drivers, Momojiro and Kinzo, continue. Momojiro and Eizo help bring home the father of two young...

Genre: Action

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

A lone wolf tries to eliminate a drug-smuggling operation.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

The upstart Godai family conglomerate plans to strengthen ties with the hardliners in the Kwantung Army as they plan military expansion into...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Osamu Takizawa

Matsukichi, a worker at a fish market, tries to settle the business between the two competitors on his turf.

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Cast: Saburo Kitajima

The sixth film of the “Truck Yaro” series. Two long-distance truckers, Momojiro and Kinzo, travel around Japan in highly decorated...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

A ronin desperately seeks a way out of financial straits; he allies with the Tosa clan under the ruthless leader Takechi, who quickly takes advantage.

Genre: History

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Katsuji takes revenge on evil Tamaru who forcefully took control of the fishery business run by Katsuji’s friend.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

Itto Ogami- High Executioner to the Shogun- has been betrayed by his political enemies and sentenced to a dishonorable death. Seeking to restore the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura