Stars: Taiji Tonoyama, Takahiro Tamura, Yûzô Hayakawa, Mikio Narita, Ayako Wakao
On the eve of the start of the war between Russia and Japan at the beginning of the 20th century, Okane, a young girl from a small town, marries the elderly and wealthy Mary to escape poverty...
Stars: Ken Watanabe, Eiji Okuda, Noriko Sengoku, Masumi Okada, Toshie Negishi
The story of two American pilots during World War II and their rescue from death by Japanese doctors after very cruel medical experiments.
Stars: Seizô Fukumoto, Takashi Noguchi, Shin'ichi Chiba, Yoshi Katô, Hideo Murota
A young criminal joins a yakuza family to kill the gangsters who beat him up, but falls in love with his boss's widowed niece and...
Stars: Gaku Yamamoto, Saburô Date, Kanae Kobayashi, Shintarô Katsu, Ryô Horikawa
A samurai with high chess skills befriends Zatoichi, and Zatoichi realizes that in his presence, everything has become strange in a special way...
Stars: Seizô Fukumoto, Takashi Noguchi, Takeshi Katô, Asao Uchida, Nobuo Kaneko
Yakuza boss Shuzo Hirono must choose his alliances carefully as the family affiliations of local gangsters prove to be highly unstable, causing gang conflicts to slowly escalate...
Stars: Yoshio Inaba, Asao Uchida, Manabu Morita, Yutaka Nakamura, Shintarô Katsu
A young intellectual conscientious objector is forced to join the Japanese army in Manchuria to serve. He meets a former gangster who...
Stars: Seizô Fukumoto, Toshirô Mifune, Tôru Minegishi, Shin'ichi Chiba, Yoshi Katô
Samurai and peasants unite to avenge their hanged prince.
Stars: Seizô Fukumoto, Takashi Noguchi, Ichirô Nakatani, Shin'ichi Chiba, Takeo Chii
A group of yakuza move from Osaka hoping to dominate the snowy region of Hokuwariko and start a bloody war with local gangs.
Stars: Renji Ishibashi, Miki Sanjô, Takashi Naitô, Ken Ogata, Keizô Kanie
Poet Akiko Yosano is a poor woman with many children, she composes while doing the housework. Her passion flows towards Takeo Arishima, a noted novelist.
Stars: Saburô Date, Kôji Fujiyama, Kôji Sekiyama, Hideo Murota, Torahiko Hamada
Based on the true story of Ryukyu Ishikawa, an ambitious man who becomes a powerful member of the Japanese mafia, but he is unable to control his anger.
Stars: Hiroyuki Sanada, Seizô Fukumoto, Toshirô Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Ichirô Nakatani
Following the death of the Tokugawa Shogun, it was revealed that he had been poisoned by his son's guards in hopes of getting him despite his stuttering and birthmark that undermined his respectability. Imitsu and...
Stars: Seizô Fukumoto, Nobuo Kaneko, Nagisa Ôshima, Hideo Murota, Kin Sugai
A police inspector intervenes in the work of the yakuza, but as soon as he realizes that the police are negotiating with these groups, he unites with his group and...
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Isao Natsuyagi, Shin'ichi Chiba, Yoshi Katô, Kyôichi Satô
Yataro Tanigawa, a one-eyed hired assassin, impresses yakuza boss Gomyo Kiyoemon with his skill. Gomyo hires Tanigawa as his bodyguard, or yojimbo, to protect him during an inter-clan conflict. Tanigawa quickly rises in stature in the clan, but finds his bosss enemies almost overwhelming.
Stars: Seizô Fukumoto, Tatsuya Nakadai, Isao Natsuyagi, Minoru Uchida, Mari Natsuki
Matsui is the adopted daughter of Karion House, a small yakuza group. Animasa, their leader, is the last heir of a samurai family. He is strict in business, but because of his justice, he is respected by weak people and...
Stars: Tomoko Mayama, Kôji Fujiyama, Kôji Sekiyama, Takashi Fujiki, Kôji Nanbara
Matsu takes refuge from the police, his ex-wife in prison and a policeman who hacked his arm...
Stars: Yoshio Inaba, Asao Koike, Tetsurô Tanba, Ken Ogata, Torahiko Hamada
Love and tribulations of a geisha in 1933 Japan.
Stars: Seizô Fukumoto, Jun Tatara, Takeo Chii, Rin'ichi Yamamoto, Takashi Naitô
Sugawara plays Nozaki, a laborer who swears allegiance to a sympathetic crime boss, only to find himself elected his successor after the boss is murdered. Restrained by a gang alliance that...
Stars: Hiroyuki Sanada, Seizô Fukumoto, Shin'ichi Chiba, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Asao Uchida
This villain is called Amakusa Shiro Tokaisada. He is actually based on a real Christian samurai. This movie is one of the inspirations of the game called "Samurai Shodown".
Stars: Yoshio Inaba, Saburô Date, Ryûtarô Gomi, Sei Hiraizumi, Nobuo Kaneko
In this film, a ronin (feudal Japanese soldier) is tasked with transporting a very valuable religious statue to Kyoto, armed members of a Christian sect are looking for an opportunity to steal the statue.
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Yoshio Inaba, Isao Natsuyagi, Hiroyuki Nagato, Gô Katô
The story of Kumukiri Niramon, a former samurai warrior who abandons his class and becomes the leader of a band of thieves. Now he leads his accomplices in an attempt to steal the castle from his former clan.
