Stars: Richard Chamberlain, Masashi Ebara, Damien Thomas, Toshirô Mifune, Yôsuke Natsuki
An English navigator becomes a player and at the same time a plaything of the political games of feudal "Japan"...
Stars: Sachio Sakai, Noriko Honma, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Yûnosuke Itô, Burt Kwouk
In ancient China, about a thousand years ago, a tyrannical government ruled over the people. 1008 rebellious people decided to change the story and overthrow the oppressive government.
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kamatari Fujiwara, Ichirô Nakatani, Hideyo Amamoto
Rinosuke is a samurai without pity or moral qualities. When he is selected to participate in his school's fencing competition, his rival's wife begs him to give up the fight and offers himself to her in return. He accepts the woman's offer, but kills her husband in the fight and...
Stars: Richard Chamberlain, Masashi Ebara, Damien Thomas, Toshirô Mifune, Yôsuke Natsuki
An English sailor is taken hostage in Japan and meanwhile enters the deadly political games of feudal Japan...
Stars: Isao Yamagata, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Fumio Watanabe, Gô Katô, Tomoko Mayama
The story of a ronin (samurai without a master) who travels in the rural areas of Japan with his little child and goes through many adventures.
Stars: Shôichi Hirose, Takehiko Ono, Hitoshi Takagi, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Takeo Chii
Yuki's family was killed by a conspiracy of a criminal group before he was born. This group kidnaps his mother and tortures him but leaves him alive. Later, his mother is imprisoned, but he keeps himself alive to take revenge and...
Stars: Asao Koike, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Asao Uchida, Akihiro Tomikawa, Hiroshi Hasegawa
Ogami is hired to take down a female assassin. Gunbi Yagyu, a rival samurai, encounters Ogami's son and sees the opportunity for revenge...
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Ikio Sawamura, Susumu Fujita, Hideyo Amamoto
This movie is the story of a group of samurai who plan to attack the prime minister but find out there is an informer among them. Some of the samurai are assigned to investigate about the people in the group, and in this way, the complicated story of Naliro's life is gradually revealed. Naliru is a poor samurai who didn't have a job before joining the group and hopes to rise to higher ranks by completing his samurai mission.
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Yoshio Tsuchiya, Hideyo Amamoto, Yasuzô Ogawa, Rinsaku Ogata
Two ronin, a samurai and a farmer, get caught up in the complex and dangerous game of the local authorities and...
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Ichirô Nakatani, Hideyo Amamoto, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Yûnosuke Itô
During World War II, a Japanese soldier joins a "kamikaze" mission against an American ship and...
Stars: Asao Koike, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Asao Uchida, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Rin'ichi Yamamoto
A yakuza gang is driven out of Yokohama by a large gang from Tokyo. They move to Okinawa to start all over again with as much violence as possible.
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Hideyo Amamoto, Isao Natsuyagi, Kyôichi Satô, Hiroshi Hasegawa
A gangster gets an early release after going to prison for killing the boss of the Kano gang - only to discover that his former gang has merged with the Kano. But despite the bitter grudges on both sides, the bloodshed begins again...
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Susumu Fujita, Sachio Sakai, Yoshio Tsuchiya
In 1943, the Kiska Aleutian Islands were protected by a small group of independent Japanese soldiers.
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Ikio Sawamura, Hideyo Amamoto, Shôji Ôki, Naoya Kusakawa
A college teacher, named Shinji Keiko, returns home one day to find the target of a murder frenzy. He miraculously uses other agents and with the help of the reporter...
Stars: Fumio Watanabe, Reiko Kasahara, Kyôichi Satô, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Shinzô Hotta
"Matsu", known as "Scorpion" among the inmates, is locked up in the worst part of the prison on the charge of attacking the warden and disturbing the public order. Having only one day to visit someone, he attacks the prison chief again. This causes more brutal punishments and...
Stars: Hiroshi Tachikawa, Ikio Sawamura, Hideyo Amamoto, Naoya Kusakawa, Yasuzô Ogawa
The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman aims to depict the daily life of an ordinary salaried man. This man decides to follow his own way of life and use it to write a novel. Interesting things happen to him until...
Stars: Vivienne Sato, Hiroshi Hasegawa, Tomato Hatakeno, Leslie Kee, Atsushi Matsuda
Artists, activists and ordinary people defy the gender spectrum and social norms and defend gay culture in contemporary Japan...
Stars: Hiroshi Hasegawa, Shintarô Katsu, Shinzô Hotta, Daisuke Ban, Yûya Uchida
When Zatuchi is close to his master's village, he decides to visit his master, but he finds out that his master has been killed and his daughter is forced to go to F.H.S.A. He starts researching...
Stars: Toshirô Mifune, Ichirô Nakatani, Sachio Sakai, Hideyo Amamoto, Nakajirô Tomita
A poor servant, who dressed in the uniform of the royal army and introduced himself instead of one of them, returns to his village after ten years to root out corruption...
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Kamatari Fujiwara, Ichirô Nakatani, Sachio Sakai, Yutaka Sada
Told from the Japanese perspective, this war drama captures the events of World War IIs Battle of Okinawa - a massive amphibious assault by U.S. troops that left more than 150,000 Japanese civilians dead.
