Reizaburo Yamamoto

Doctor Sanada treats gangster Matsunaga after he is wounded in a gunfight, and discovers that he is suffering from tuberculosis. Sanada tries to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takashi Shimura

On his release from prison a young yakuza, along with his brother, decides to turn his back on criminal life instead of taking over the position of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yukio Mishima

Kanji is a poor peasant widower who struggles to earn a living for his daughter and himself and to pay off his father-in-law's debts.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isamu Kosugi

Jirokichi the Rat is wanted in Edo for robbing the mansions of the rich. While on the run, he falls for Osen, a girl who has been sold to a brothel...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

Hanakosan (1943, TOHO, MAKINO Masahiro), a thoroughly light and joyful musical comedy, influenced by Busby Berkeley films, against the national...

Genre: Music

Cast: Yukiko Todoroki

A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

A village struggles to survive when the nearby lake becomes barren of fish.

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Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

A bittersweet love story between yakuza Hiroshi and a married woman Reiko.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

A gangster gets released from prison and has to cope with the recent shifts of power between the gangs, while taking care of a thrill-seeking young...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

The conclusion of the story of famed swordsman, Sasaki Kojiro. After surviving a series of daring adventures, Kojiro seems to have finally discovered...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chiyonosuke Azuma

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

A carpenter, Shigetsugu, learns a lesson of love and humanity from five orphaned children and an affectionate woman named Oritsu. It's a winning...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

In old Edo, Kakunojo (Chiezo), a dandy about town, falls in love with Oichi (Isuzu Yamada), whose merchant family is much beyond Kakunojo's status....

Genre: Action

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Chōchō Miyako

The Opium War is a 1943 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Masahiro Makino. "Ahen senso" in Japan refers to the First Opium War. The story of...

Genre: War

Cast: Ennosuke Ichikawa

This epic depicts the battle between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. The focus of the story is the struggle by the unit leader in charge of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ennosuke Ichikawa

Tomotaka Tasaka's A Pebble by the Wayside (Robo no Ishi), made in 1938 and taken from a Yuzo Yamamoto novel, takes place around 1902, was about a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akihiko Katayama

The eldest daughter of a rural family Mon returns home from Tokyo pregnant after an affair with a college student Kobata, which causes a scandal that...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

A group of Japanese soldiers land in Chinese territory. They advance on a village ; one soldier, Norimoto, is killed in the attack, but the village...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yûji Azuma

Japanese historical film.

Genre: History

Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sessue Hayakawa

Directed by Daisuke Itō.

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Cast: Shinpachirō Asaka

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Cast: Reizaburo Yamamoto

Yamanaka Sadao's fourth feature film. The Life of Bangaku

Genre: History

Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

The second film in the "Suruga yukyoden" series, in which Shintaro Katsu plays Jirocho Shimizu. The film features Omasa, Komasa, Ocho, who will...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki

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Cast: Kanjūrō Arashi

A romantic melodrama about the shifting relationship between Ryosuke and Miki as their precarious employment and social circumstances shift around...

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Cast: Yukiko Shimazaki

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Cast: Susumu Fujita

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Cast: Susumu Fujita

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Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

1942 adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's novel.

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Cast: Roppa Furukawa

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Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

A bizarre murder at a hot springs resort threatens to disrupt an Edo detective's (Hasegawa) vacation. When his hot-blooded wife (Yamada) starts...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

The Blue Pearl depicts the interplay between a young man from Tokyo and two ama (pearl divers; literally “women of the sea”) in a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Fourth film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka

Genre: Crime

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

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Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mieko Takamine

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isamu Kosugi

Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten: Kiyoshi Saeki directed movie

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Cast: Susumu Fujita

Final installment of the Okochi / Arai / Yamanaka Mito Komon series and just as good as the others (a good deal longer, as well). Again, this film...

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Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

Adaptation of the novel by Osaragi Jirō. Again scripted by the legendary Yamanaka Sadao

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Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

Dai-ichi-bu: Dôkai-wan no rantô - Kiyoshi Saeki directed movie.

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Cast: Ushio Akashi

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Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

During the 17th Century roving bands of hatamoto were causing trouble in the new capital city of Edo and constantly fought with the townspeople at...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tsumasaburō Bandō

A man gets rid of a cheap pot without knowing it contains a map to a treasure. As word spreads, many join in hunting it.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

1938 Theater of Life adaptation.

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Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

1962 Japanese movie. Remake of Mori's 1942 original movie

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu

With one million yen in stolen cash, Kurita plans his escape to Hokkaido with an unwilling bar girl named Katsumi.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Susumu Fujita

1951 Japanese movie

Genre: Action

Cast: Tomiemon Otomo

A story about Kinsaburo Kamiya, who infiltrated the Satsuma clan at the end of the Edo period. Based on the novel "Satsuma Hikyaku" by Jiro Daibutsu,...

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Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

Director Hiroshi Inagaki's early version of the life and death of famed swordsman Sasaki Kojiro. Otani Tomoemon gives a brilliant performance as...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tomiemon Otomo

On the night the shogunate's treasury was breached, the guard Utsugi had already been taken down. His colleague Ryunosuke felt responsible and...

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Cast: Tsumasaburō Bandō

Japanese horror movie from 1929.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Ryutaro Nagai

1947 Japanese movie

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Cast: Tsumasaburō Bandō