Isao Natsuyagi

Set in the traditional city of Kyoto, Japan, this deeply poetic TV movie revolves around Chieko who becomes bewildered and troubled as she discovers...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Aya Ueto

Special forces officer Ajisawa leaves his paramilitary group to take care of his newly-adopted daughter, Yoriko: the sole survival of a bloodbath for...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

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

Warlords Kagetora and Takeda each wish to prevent the other from gaining hegemony in feudal Japan. The two samurai leaders pursue one another across...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Takaaki Enoki

Scientists in Antarctica desperately try to find a cure to a military virus that was released in a plane crash and has wiped out the rest of the...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Glenn Ford

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

A war widow determined to clear the name of her disgraced husband, who was court-martialed for desertion and executed. Official records have been...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sachiko Hidari

Yataro Tanigawa, a one-eyed hired assassin, impresses yakuza boss Gomyo Kiyoemon with his skill. Gomyo hires Tanigawa as his bodyguard, or yojimbo,...

Genre: Action

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

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

After being cruelly set up and deceived by Sugimi, a detective in cohorts with the mob with whom she was whole-heartedly in love, Matsushima’s...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Meiko Kaji

A squadron of Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers find themselves transported through time to their country's warring states era, when rival samurai...

Genre: Action

Cast: Sonny Chiba

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

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

An old couple, their only son, the son's wife, a young man and his lover live peacefully in a village. Then, a terrifying earthquake strikes that...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isao Natsuyagi

As the Japanese surrender at the end of WWII, Gen. Fellers is tasked with deciding if Emperor Hirohito will be hanged as a war criminal. Influencing...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Matthew Fox

Famous detective Kindaichi solves a series of mysterious murders in a wealthy family. An excellent blend of intrigue and betrayal, set against the...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Toshiyuki Nishida

When her husband is hospitalized with tuberculosis, Chika has a series of three relationships: with a teacher in her hometown, with a student in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takami Yoshimoto

The Taisho era was a time of turbulence in Japan. From new marks of modernity to full-blown riots, a sense of revolution filled the air. The Dam Dam...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yoko Takahashi

Based on a science-fiction novel by Sakyo Komatsu. Tokyo is suddenly covered by a dome shaped electromagnetic cloud for an unknown reason and is...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Yûko Natori

The ronin, Sako Kanbei has to rescue the beautiful Princess Tsubaki from danger while young samurai of the Numata Clan stand up against their corrupt...

Genre: Action

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

A brother and sister learn their biological grandfather was a kamikaze pilot who died during World War II. During their research into his life, they...

Genre: War

Cast: Junichi Okada

Elite college graduates commit perfect financial crimes though loopholes in the law during the 1950s.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Isao Natsuyagi

Based on actual events that occurred in Hokkaido, Japan, 1915. Rimeinzu: Utsukushiki yuusha-tachi tells the story of a group of bear hunters that are...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroyuki Sanada

Ryota Nonomiya is a successful businessman driven by money. He learns that his biological son was switched with another child after birth. He must...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masaharu Fukuyama

In prison for 50 years after massacring his corrupt workmates with a samurai sword in 1945, Ginji Sonesaki (Riki Takeuchi) is given the nickname of...

Genre: Action

Cast: Isao Natsuyagi

In the middle of the 16th century, Hideyoshi, a power hungry warlord sets out to destroy the Momochi clan. He sends his war commander in search of...

Genre: Action

Cast: Hiroyuki Sanada

Following the death of the second Tokugawa shogun, it is revealed that he was poisoned by retainers of his son Iemitsu in hopes of gaining him the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

A seemingly random series of bombings in a provincial city. The latest target is a public bus route. Detective Chaya chased terrorists and arrested a...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Toma Ikuta

Shigeru Kajiwara (Joe Odagiri) works part-time at a company that sells mysterious health food. One day, the other employees run off with the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joe Odagiri

Toru grew up in alpine countryside around Mount Tate. As a child, he resented the yearly trek up the mountain with his father to prepare their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenichi Matsuyama

Sakiko, works independently at a travel agent in Tokyo. She was raised by her mother, Tatsuko, is hospitalized, Sakiko returns to her hometown...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nanako Matsushima

Onimasa is the egocentric boss of a small yakuza clan on Shikoku Island, whose criminal duties conflict with his self-image as a chivalrous samurai....

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

In 1907, a group of men climb an unconquered peak in the last unmapped region of Japan.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tadanobu Asano

A successful businessman and his alcoholic wife attempt to piece together their unhappy lives and shattered marriage. Little do Nagai and Akira know...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroshi Mikami

Kaori is pursuing her career as a journalist for a magazine with great enthusiasm. But as a result of an article she wrote, she is sent to work for a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayumi Ito

Katagiri, a highly ambitious young detective, teams up with older detective Takiguchi, who is about to retire, to investigate a murder that took...

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Cast: Eiji Okuda

A story about the development of a bright and strong yakuza. Otaki is an old-fashioned respectful yakuza who tries to protect his small yakuza...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

Kanno is a Yakuza. He had to kill Matsuoka who betrayed their boss. Kanno knew Matsuoka had a 3-year-old daughter named Youko. Before he gave himself...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ken Takakura

Japanese film icon Ken Takakura, who has starred in over 100 films, stars in this elegiac look at war and remembrance. Hideji Yamaoka (Takakura) was...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

On Ishigaki Island, conflict brews over a large-scale bridge construction project. One day, Yajima (Sho Aoyagi), a public official from the Ministry...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sho Aoyagi

From Hokkaido to Tokyo, hunting dog Goro embarks on a long and grueling journey to reach home. With the loss of his master who held a secret to a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

In the year 1590, the mighty warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi is close to fulfilling his ambition of unifying all of Japan under his banner when he comes...

Genre: History

Cast: Mansai Nomura

The story is set in Chiran, Kagoshima, the site of a secret base used to launch kamikaze missions during the war. At the time, a group of young girls...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroki Narimiya

Tatsumura Yusuke, Toho Advertising's deputy sales manager was a childhood friend of Akiko and Katsuya. In fact, there is a secret that cannot be...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Seiyo Uchino

A down-and-out businessman travels to a seaside town, where he meets a woman with unusual sexual powers.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Yakusho

Uta married a priest who saved her when she tried to commit suicide at a waterfall. The love triangle between a lustful priest, his second wife and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rumiko Koyanagi

When his sister commits suicide as a result of his actions, Rokuheita, an enforcer for the Yagyu ninja clan, considers his choices and eventually...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

Sakata protects a little boy while coping with rival gangs.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sonny Chiba

While the Japanese government is trying to crack down on international crime organizations' money laundering in tax havens, the Chief of Police's son...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yuji Oda

Police Officer Kankichi Ryotsu (Shingo Katori) is back at the Kameari Park Polic Box. Kankichi Ryotsu usually means to do well, but more often than...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shingo Katori

A Japanese film that tells the tale of the birth of VHS. It follows Kagatani Shizuo, an electronics employee who rallies his coworkers to save their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshiyuki Nishida

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tsuyoshi Ihara

A story of young students trained to become Kamikaze pilots in World War II.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

It was five years ago when Minako spent a night with Sozo, younger brother of her ex-husband. She now lives in a local town with a rich old man who...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Shima Iwashita

Released after seven years in prison, an inveterate thug goes from strength to ruthless strength as he makes his way through a succession of dubious...

Genre: Action

Cast: Hiromi Go

An emotionally distraught young man goes on a violent killing spree after his tuberculosis keeps him from serving in World War II and is frowned upon...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Masato Furuoya

In feudal Japan, women are vulnerable, in need of protection, and capable of deception. Jokichi of Mikogami, a drifter, has not yet fully revenged...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yoshio Harada

Modern sex and thrill film about tattooed prostitute.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chizuko Arai

As Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, under pressure from the public and the press, adding a new...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

Set in the 1930s in the international city of Shanghai, the film follows the extravagant life and times of a group of jazz musicians, living from one...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Keiko Matsuzaka

This remake of the classic film features the addition of Chiba Shinichi and Natsuyagi Isao as political intrigue reigns supreme. Tadanaga, the...

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Cast: Isao Natsuyagi

After spending eight years in prison for murder, Hiroshi leaves his yakuza family to start a new life as a labor racketeer.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

In 1947, in Kobe, Japan, a local street gang fights for their survival when its turf is overrun by United States occupation forces and international...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ken Takakura

Su-san resigns after getting fed up with corporate life, but he finds himself back in familiar surroundings on his first assignment at a new job.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Toshiyuki Nishida

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

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ken Takakura

Japanese drama.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroko Sakuramachi

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Cast: Matsumoto Hakuō II

The heir to a family fortune discovers that a curse has been placed on it, put there centuries before by a band of samurai warriors. Adaptation of...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Kenichi Hagiwara

During the invasion of Normandy the photograph of a slim Korean man in German uniform was found. It transpired that the man had served as a soldier...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jang Dong-gun

Keisuke, 15-year-old junior-high school boy, has been forced to live as refugees with his family in temporary housing apart from a hometown as a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryûichirô Shibata

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

Genre: Crime

Cast: Sonny Chiba

Based on the comic by Toshiya Masaoka.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Takuzō Kawatani

Based on the novel of the same name by Kenzo Kitakata.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yutaka Mizutani

Master swordsman Akiyama Kohei’s simple life in retirement is jarred into violent sword action when he meets an elderly fencing instructor who...

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Cast: Makoto Fujita

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tsutomu Isobe

Keiichi (Kenichi Hagiwara) is a weather man. He gets involved with two married women, Yoshiko (Mitsuko Baisho) and Miyoko (Chieko Baisho). Both want...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenichi Hagiwara

Obayashi's take on the famous Kosuke Kindaichi series, made popular partly thanks to the numerous movie-adaptions by Kon Ichikawa, the most known...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ikko Furuya

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

When the Shogun Tokugawa III is in bed with a girl, she turns into a monster. The court believes she is Ninja Magic, used to frighten the lord off...

Genre: Action

Cast: Isao Natsuyagi

Set in the aftermath of the fall of Osaka Castle tells the story of the last of the Toyotomi heirs in his quest for revenge against the Tokugawa.

Genre: Action

Cast: Ken Matsudaira

After the death of previous Boss, a gang war lasts for more than four years.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kiichi Nakai

A valet at a fancy nightclub hatches a plot to punish those responsible for his father's death.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroyuki Sanada

Tetsuro Haga is a troubled gangster, living under the assumed identity Ise for ten years, to escape jail for gunning down his cruel adoptive father....

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Yakusho

Invited for a anniversary celebration, Kindaichi, Miyuki and inspector Kenmochi re-visit the Opera House. There they discover that a play of The...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Kappei Yamaguchi

The wife of a yakuza lieutenant tries to keep the peace when the clan's heir suddenly dies and a succession conflict threatens to break out.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shima Iwashita

Hitomi, a former orphan who is trying to leave behind her delinquent ways, one day agrees to tutor a wealthy young boy who has just become an orphan...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Kyoko Koizumi

When an American is murdered in a Japanese inn, Tokyo police detective Munesue follows the trail of the killer to New York. There he is joined by a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariko Okada

This is the story of the 47 ronin of the Ako clan who rose up to avenge the brutal death of their beloved master Asano Takumi-no-kami after his...

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Cast: Kotaro Satomi

19-year-old freeter (a Japanese expression for people between the ages of 15 and 34 who lack full time employment or are unemployed, excluding...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yosuke Asari

A young jazz musician's desire to advance in his career runs afoul of organized crime in this thriller from Haruki Kadokawa. After a saxophonist...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hironobu Nomura

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Sakuma

A team of geophysicists investigating seismic activity on the seafloor discover that the islands of Japan, after suffering from massive volcanic...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

Tetsuro believed he was freeing the Earth from the clutches of the Metanoid Empire’s tyranny. Yet one year after his return, Tetsuro is a...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Masako Nozawa

The tale of Taira Kiyomori who started as a young inexperienced warrior who led the Heike into the battle against the brutal pirates on Setouchi.

Genre: History

Cast: Shima Iwashita

At the turn of the 20th Century amongst tension between China and Japan, a Japanese swindler in Shanghai plans to profit by selling weapons. He...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yuji Oda

War between North Korea and Japan

Genre: War

Cast: Yoji Tanaka

After the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate, there was a series of battles fought while the former supporters of the Tokugawa shogunate retreated to the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kotaro Satomi

Biopic of Date Masamune. Young Masamune upon learning of the death of Nobunaga decides that he is the man to fill those sainted clogs. The fastest...

Genre: History

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

In the spring of 1945, Murakami, an apprentice officer, was ordered by the General Staff Headquarters to be assigned to the secret 33rd Eastern Unit,...

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Cast: Sonny Chiba

A girl called Zero stands in a crowded street, her occupation an assassin. As she completes her tasks one after another, Zero has been feeling uneasy...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eri Ishikawa

From all over Japan, the greatest warriors: Yagyu Jubei, Miyamoto Musashi, Araki Mataemon, and more came to test their blades in a tournament of...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kotaro Satomi

A Japanese sailor finds a colony of Eskimos in the Arctic and decides to stay with them. He comes off at a certain moment to look for his luck in the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinya Kitaoji

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Cast: Masahiro Takashima

In between the original 1963 13 ASSASSINS film and the 2010 remake by Miike Takashi, Fuji TV produced a version for TV. Starring Nakadai Tatsuya and...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

Rin Jyoshima lost her father to death-by-gambling; years later, she's grown up in the Kosugi household and has fallen victim to gambling herself.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kanako Higuchi

Horai serves an 18 year sentence for killing a rival boss, but right before his release he is attacked.

Genre: Action

Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

What do you get when you mix a granddaughter from an extremely rich family with crime, murder, and a passion for law and justice? Kanbe Miwako...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Kyoko Fukada

Remake of The Story of a Man Among Men (1984)

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Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

Watanabe Kazuma's younger brother is brutally murdered by Kawai Matagoro. However, Kazuma's vendetta is denied since the Japanese law in the 17th...

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Cast: Hideki Takahashi

Spring 2005, Okinawa. It's the wedding of Sawamura Seiji's second daughter, Seiko (Fujisawa Ema). Miwa (Harada Mieko), her mother, is watching over...

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Cast: Goro Inagaki

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Toru Tachibana is a police officer who works as a guard at a detention center. He and his colleague Nakano, who lives in a shared room in a bachelor...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michitaka Tsutsui

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

From his early days as Matsudaira Motoyasu through his rise to the most powerful man in Japan as Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first of the Tokugawa Shoguns,...

Genre: War

Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Chosuke Ikariya

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Cast: Riki Takeuchi

In the 16th Year of Keityo (1611), the lord of Ogura Castle in Kyushu admitted Sasaki Kojiro's because of his great sword techniques. However, a...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Ken Watanabe

Denzaburo Kato, the third generation leader of the Horii family whose territory encompasses the Yokohama area, has a dramatic encounter at a certain...

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Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

Ryuji Inahara, the heir to the Atami Yamazakiya family, subsequently placed the group under the control of the influential members of the Guretai,...

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Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

Ryuji Inahara changed the name of the Inahara-gumi to the Inahara-kai, and accordingly unified the emblem of the Inahara-kai. Then, in 1961,...

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Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

The one who hurriedly ascended the castle upon hearing news of Shogun Tsunayoshi's illness was Saotome Mondonosuke. However, instead of an illness,...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryūzō Hayashi

Matauemon Araki (Kotaro Satomi) is a sword teacher in Yamatokoriyama. He heard from his brother-in-law Kazuma Watanabe (Koyo Katagiri) that Kazuma's...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kotaro Satomi

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Cast: Riki Takeuchi

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Cast: Riki Takeuchi

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Cast: Riki Takeuchi

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Cast: Riki Takeuchi

Near the end of WWII a lone U-Boat is sent from Germany to Japan carrying plutonium needed for a Japanese A-Bomb. During the long journey, news...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Ulrich Mühe