Yamaotoko no Uta

Undercurrent

In Kyoto a young kimono maker with traditional ideas gets involved with a married professor.

A Baby Given by a Fox

A lowly drunken samurai finds an abandoned baby in the woods and takes it home. A gift from a fox. B

Teppo Yasu no Shogai

1962 Japanese movie

Miss Oyu

Shinnosuke is introduced to Shizu as a prospective marriage partner, but he falls in love with her w

Sabakareru Echizen no kami

1962 Japanese movie

Judge of the Ashuras

A Man from Akagi

The Fiery Magistrate

Film adaption by Kenji Misumi

Song of Love

In postwar Japan, a new teacher, Miyamoto Yasuko, is discovered by her estranged daughter, Fukuoka S

Akado Suzunosuke: Dokuro dentaiji

1958 Japanese movie

Otemoyan

Sleepy Eyes of Death 1: The Chinese Jade

Nemuri Kyoshiro, a youthful and cynical ronin with unparalleled skill, is approached by both sides i

Sleepy Eyes of Death 2: Sword of Adventure

Wandering samurai Nemuri Kyoshiro (Raizô Ichikawa) finds a bulls-eye on his back after befriending t

Sleepy Eyes of Death 3: Full Circle Killing

A decapitation at the hands of the shogun's monstrous misbegotten son kicks off the action and draws

Conflagration

Learning of his family's collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the Golde

Anatahan

From June 1944, twelve Japanese seamen are stranded for seven years on an abandoned and forgotten is

Scars of Honor

Japan, 1643, as the Kato clan of Aizu falls from power two brave samurai will settle a dispute in th

Sōran wataridori

1962 Japanese movie

Ame no Kudan-zaka

1962 Japanese movie

Samurai Save The Virgin

A gripping historical drama full of suspense and a mysterious bewitching mood. A puzzle of a turbule

Izayoi kaidō

The Demon of Sendai's Castle

Tsunamune Date, the young lord of Sendai Domain, was ordered by the shogunate to stand down after be

Shogun's Holiday

During the reign of Hidetada, the second shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty, the advisor Okubo Hikozaemo

Ken ni kakeru

Kojiki Taishô

Gotō Matabei is the most able and fierce samurai of the Kuroda clan. However, he gradually dislikes

An Heir's Place

This film stars Tanaka Kinuyo as the mother of the heir to the Hosho name, a famous lineage of Noh a

Life of Matsu the Untamed

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

The Thieves' Who's Who

In the book of the world's greatest rogues, the number one man can only be one person.

Sansho the Bailiff

In medieval Japan, a woman and her children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was exiled y

Chikamatsu Monogatari

When the wife of a 17th century Kyoto scroll-maker is falsely accused of having an affair with his b

Gate of Hell

Japan, 1159. Moritō, a brave samurai, performs a heroic act by rescuing the lovely Kesa during a vio

Sudden Attack of the Christian Lord

The Invisible Man Appears

A scientist successfully creates an invisibility serum, only to be kidnapped by a gang of thugs who

Otōsan wa Ohitoyoshi

A frenzy of goodwill, tears, laughter, and a lot of fun, caused by thirteen children under the guise

Kojiro's Turning Swallow Cut

The story of Sasaki Kojiro, a young swordsman, and his quest to train under master Seigen and develo

Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance

Official Shogunate executioner Ogami Itto has been framed for disloyalty to the Shogunate by the Yag

Palace of the Singing Raccoon-Dogs

In this Japanese retelling of Cinderella, Okuro (Takayama) is the unfortunate stepdaughter of a fam

Akado Suzunosuke vs. the Birdman with 3 Eyes

Suzunosuke faces perhaps his wildest foes. This evil gang is lead by a one-eyed birdman and other de

The Gambler's Code

One of Japan's most popular stories is the tale of Kutsukake Tokijiro, a traveling gambler who finds

Hidden Story of the Yagyu Clan

It is brother against brother in this tale of love and betrayal within the famed Yagyu clan. In one

The Third Shadow Warrior

In the mountain regions of Hida, the dreams of a peasant named Kyonosuke, who longed to be a samurai

Jirocho Fuji

Legendary yakuza Shimizu Jirocho and his 28 henchmen travel the unruly path from a 'Fire Festival' i

Satan's Sword

The Dai-bosatsu toge trilogy is based on Kaizan Nakazato's unfinished long series of novels (41 book

Destiny's Son

In Edo-period Japan, Shingo is born the son of an assassin who was executed for murdering her lord’s

The Daring Nun

One of the nuns at Senjuan is Sister Shunko (Michiyo Yasuda). Unlike the usual nun, however, she oft

Bloody Shuriken

Ronin samurai Ibuki-san enters a town and sells his skills to the warring families. He falls in love

The Saga of Tanegashima

Well before “Shogun” as warring clans were fighting for power throughout Japan, a Portuguese vessel

Ninja, A Band of Assassins

Warlord Oda Nobunaga seeks to unite a fractured Japan. A young man trained in the arts of ninjitsu i

The Temple of Wild Geese

Satoko is a mistress by trade or fate: when her master, the silkscreen artist of the Kohoan Temple i

Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance

[Period covered: 1582-1594]. As the film opens, the warlod Nobunaga Oda rides to Iga Ayanokuni shrin

Sleepy Eyes of Death 5: Sword of Fire

Fifth film in the series. When Kyoshiro, in a moment of weakness, saves the life of a woman being a

Sleepy Eyes of Death 4: Sword of Seduction

A fugitive christian "saint" (female, of course!) and a sadistic drug-addled princess both have thei

Sword Devil

Hanpei is a gentle young samurai that loves flowers. One day, he witnesses an old man's quick draw o

Gambler and the Princess

Film directed by Kenji Misumi.

Gonpachi

Early film directed by Kenji Misumi.

Sleepy Eyes of Death 6: Sword of Satan

Sixth film in the series. A little boy who just wants to be a carpenter is at the center of a plot

Irezumi

Otsuya, the daughter of a rich merchant, elopes with her lover Shinsuke, an employee of her father's

Sleepy Eyes of Death 8: Sword of Villainy

Nemuri Kyoshiro discovers a conspiracy centering around a band of disgruntled samurai wanting to ave

The Blind Menace

This is the story of a blind masseur who tricks people, steals, and kills; he is the anti-Zatoichi.

Buddha

An Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six years

Bronze Magician

Yoso is truly a lost classic, set in the Nara Era (710-794), from Kinugasa Teinosuke the same writer

A Lustful Man

Fascinated with women from an early age, Yonosuke had his first sexual encounter at the age of seven

Blood End

Sentaro is been severely beaten for his defiance of the government and the high taxes during a time

Zatoichi the Outlaw

When a local gambling house kidnaps some peasants because they failed to pay their debts, a rival ga

Ishimatsu - The One-Eyed Swordsman

Ishimatsu of Mori, from his early days leading up to his joining with Shimizu Jirocho, Boss of the T

The Snow Woman

Two woodcutters spend the night in a mountain lodge after being caught in a snowstorm. A female spir

Initiation of the Two-Sword Style

Ito Daisuke's wartime retelling of the Miyamoto Musashi story.

Haunted Castle

This period thriller concerns a very famous cat known as the "monster cat of Nabeshima". This cat, a

An Osaka Story

A poor peasant, after years of scraping, becomes a rich and powerful Osaka merchant. Mizoguchi Kenji

The Front Line Showdown

Ugetsu

In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers

The Hoodlum Priest

The first film in the 2 part series about Ryuzen, a renegade martial-arts priest who, in addition to

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx

Ogami Itto battles a group of female ninja in the employ of the Yagyu clan and must eliminate a trai

The Tale of Zatoichi

The adventures of a blind, gambling masseur and master swordsman. Zatoichi targets a yakuza-controll

Zatoichi's Vengeance

Zatoichi comes upon a dying man who asks him to give a bag of money to "Taichi". Zatoichi has no ide

Ghost of Saga Mansion

A woman loses her son through an evil conspiracy and commits suicide. Shortly afterwards a ghost cat

The Second Son

Flowery Hood 2

Secret of Naruto

From the pen of Yoshikawa Eiji comes this exciting story. The Naruto Strait separates Tokushima from

Zenigata Heiji: Ghost Lord

Dianas of the Campus

Taki no shiraito

A 1946 Japanese film directed by Keigo Kimura.

Fighting Letter for 29 People

Flowery Hood

Oniisan to oneesan

A 1961 film directed by Yoshiyuki Kuroda.

Marathon Samurai

The TV drama of Ima Harube was adapted by Yagi Ryuichiro ("Komuso Henge"), directed by Mori Issei ("

Zenigata Heiji torimono hikae: madara hebi

Three Young Samurai

During Japan's Warring States period three young Tokugawa vassals head their separate ways after Tak

出獄四十八時間

ほんだら捕物帖

木曽ぶし三度笠

1961 Japanese movie

Shikaku yashiki

1961 Japanese movie

Shinobi no Mono 3: Resurrection

[Period covered: 1595-1600] We last saw ninja Ishikawa Goemon, as he was about to be boiled alive. B

Shinobi No Mono 5: Return of Mist Saizo

[Period covered: 1616] On May 8th, 1615 the summer campaign of Osaka has reached the climax. This fi

Nihon Meisaku Kaidan Gekijō: Yotsuya Kaidan

Iemon Fukasawa, a masterless samurai, marries Oiwa but is repulsed by a dark mark on her face. He de