Movies

Early Japanese three-part samurai / fantasy serial.

Saotome Mondonosuke pursues the culprit who placed a malicious curse upon Shogun Tsunekichi.

A film about young wandering Yakuza. Yukio Hashi's first film role.

A parody based on Kabuki plays about thieves led by the famous Soshun Kochiyama.

Kyoto in the third year of Bunkyu. --Serizawa Kamo, the head of the Shinsengumi, and the group around him spend their days and nights having fun in...

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. Considered a...

As it turns out, the evil hand of drugs has reached the inner palace of the Shogunate. It was thought that the opium was coming from Nagasaki, but it...

Ryō Hagiwara movie

Based on the old tale of Jiraiya, this 1937 version is essentially a revenge story with fantastic visuals.

1953 Hiroshi Inagaki movie.

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...

Adaptation of Mito Kōmon.

As the reputation of Sasaki Kojiro, who traveled through various provinces with his long sword seeking duels, began to spread, he was summoned by...

Second in the Nage Utasamon series

An adventurer and two accomplices unexpectedly invite themselves to a sword tournament and are offered a job with the lord who organized the...

Adaptation of the Riichi Yokomitsu novel.