Keiko Koyanagi

When the wife of a 17th century Kyoto scroll-maker is falsely accused of having an affair with his best employee, the pair flee the city and find...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

A greedy developer, in league with a corrupt Shrine Magistrate, brutally tries to drive people out of a tenement building and destroy the shrine in...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Jun Fujimaki

The tyrannical Lord Danjo Mikoshiba covets the rich, fertile lands surrounding Lake Yakumo. During a memorial ceremony for the late Chigusa lord,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kōjirō Hongō

The Lord of Okazaki is killed by his brother-in-law. Although the Lord's widow bears a child, she is also killed. Then, a ghost cat begins stalking...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Takako Irie

The film portrays a satirical view of today's heartless money-oriented society.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

The tragic, yet exciting story of the friendship between Nakayama Yasubei, a member of the 47 Ronin, and Tange Tenzen, a relative by marriage of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Satoko is a mistress by trade or fate: when her master, the silkscreen artist of the Kohoan Temple in Kyoto, dies, she is given to the temple's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

[Period covered: 1582-1594]. As the film opens, the warlod Nobunaga Oda rides to Iga Ayanokuni shrine. He is asked if he thinks he has destroyed all...

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

A mountain man beheads his many wives to prove his love to an alluring woman he meets in an enchanted forest.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

Based on a novel by Tsutomu Mizukami, this haunting melodrama focuses on a young bamboo worker who takes his father's prostitute as his wife.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Wandering samurai Nemuri Kyoshiro (Raizô Ichikawa) finds a bulls-eye on his back after befriending the shogunate's tightfisted financial...

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

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...

Genre: Action

Cast: Shigeru Amachi

Two women are ferried to a small prison colony on the remote and barren prison island, where they and their fellow inmates are forced to perform...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Masakazu Tamura

A young girl named Oichi is abandoned by her mother and blinded by a lightning strike. When her guardian is killed, she learns to wield a sword from...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yōko Matsuyama

Fascinated with women from an early age, Yonosuke had his first sexual encounter at the age of seven. From that day on, he recklessly and forwardly...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Yukiko's fiance learns her mother runs a geisha house and ends their engagement. She despises what her mother does until one of her clients shows...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

Sentaro is been severely beaten for his defiance of the government and the high taxes during a time of famine. He is befriended by Kada Gentaro, a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

When a local gambling house kidnaps some peasants because they failed to pay their debts, a rival gambling house pays their debts and sets them free.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Ishimatsu of Mori, from his early days leading up to his joining with Shimizu Jirocho, Boss of the Tokaido where he made his mark in history through...

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Getting an opportunity to meet with another half-Caucasian swordsman, Kyoshiro finds himself involved in a series of dangerous encounters.

Genre: Action

Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

The first story concerns an attractive young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. Her plan for a solid financial future has a double whammy. In the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Eiko seeks out Miyoharu, a geisha, and asks to be her apprentice. When she is ready to receive clients, both women want the right to refuse certain...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiyo Kogure

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...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Machiko Kyō

It’s cross and double-cross in these further adventures of Ryuzen, the wayward priest played by Katsu Shintaro as he tries to help a woman who...

Genre: Action

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Zatoichi makes friends with a dangerous chess player, while fending off angry yakuza and bloodthirsty relatives out for revenge, and trying to save a...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

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...

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

One day, a funeral was held at one of the tenements in Asakusa. It was the only son of a wealthy merchant named Matasaburo, who had run away from...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Ganjirō Nakamura II

Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overbearing mother and grandmother to give...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

The story of two sisters in post-war Japan. One is a geisha and the other works for the tourist board.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

In Edo Japan, a kabuki actor seeks revenge against the three men who drove his parents to their deaths years ago.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Period drama based on the novel by Saisei Murō.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiko Ono

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...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Joji Oka

Okoyo, the mistress of Lord Arima, fears that she is being replaced by a younger woman named Otaki. In a fit of jealousy, she kills the younger girl....

Genre: Horror

Cast: Takako Irie

Story of a Beloved Wife is an autobiographical work based on Shindo's first marriage. Jūkichi Uno stars as a struggling screenwriter, and Nobuko...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

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....

Genre: Horror

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Early film directed by Kenji Misumi.

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Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu

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Cast: Eiko Yanami

The tragic story of Gonza, a handsome ladies man, set in the Tokagawa Period, a time in which appearences are very important. Gonza competes with...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiromi Go

Yasuda plays Omon, a woman using bamboo leaves as darts/blades to disable and kill her enemies.

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Cast: Michiyo Yasuda

Learning of his family's collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the Golden Pavilion, must endure acute psychological...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Genre: Animation

Cast: Koichi Yamadera