Ryōsuke Kagawa
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1896-10-10
Locus Natus: Saga Prefecture, Japan
Et ut:
Hotta Hayato
Jidaigeki film, only a fragment remains of the original film.
release : 1933.04.27popularis : 0.624
Capone's Younger Brother: Heart and Speculation
Lesser, but still modestly entertaining sequel. Wakayama is wonderfully bastardly here, but has to do without Chicago bros. Yamashiro & Watanabe and...
release : 1971.01.23popularis : 0.987
20 Duels of Young Shingo - Conclusion
While on his journey through the countryside of Japan, Shingo encounters many people whose lives have been affected by his actions. Though the many...
release : 1963.07.13popularis : 2.277
The Life of Matsu the Untamed
Matsugoro is a poor rickshaw driver whose animated spirit and optimistic demeanor make him a favorite of the town. Matsu helps an injured boy,...
release : 1943.10.28popularis : 3.724
Children Hand in Hand
A small-town boy with a learning disability attempts to fit in with his classmates.
release : 1948.03.30popularis : 1.168
Scarred Yosaburo
The film depicts the scarring of Yosaburo at the hands of yakuza thugs who catch him with mistress of the gang boss. Despite the physical and...
release : 1960.07.10popularis : 1.444
Thus the Divine Wind Blows
Set in the late thirteenth century, this film depicts the defense of southern Japan led by the Kono clan against the Mongol invasion in 1281.
release : 1944.08.11popularis : 2.005
Saheiji’s Casebooks: The Purple Hood
The purple hood reveals the embezzlement of public money by officials. A remake of Masahiro Makino's 1923 film.
release : 1949.05.10popularis : 1.565
Wild Lion
A gripping historical drama that follows the explosive growth of Katsu Kaishu, the hero of the Meiji era, and the interesting human image of his...
release : 1953.08.12popularis : 2.048
Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 3
The adventures of Aoi Shingo continue. Shingo is finally given permission to officially meet his father, the Shogun. However, his journey is...
release : 1960.03.27popularis : 1.606
The Funeral
When Wabisuke's father-in-law unexpectedly dies, the family goes through a series of random events and occurrences as the funeral unfolds over three...
release : 1984.11.17popularis : 3.903
Ooka Seidan: Devil Image
Magistrate Ooka and a samurai fight against evil forces.
release : 1960.05.22popularis : 2.74
Conduct Report on Matashiro: The Devil Princess and Winter Rain
Jidai-geki by Nobuo Nakagawa. Most likely a star vehicle for Kanjuro Arashi
release : 1951.02.11popularis : 1.585
Glorious Firefighter’s Standard
Firefighter Sanji learns the secret of his birth.
release : 1960.01.21popularis : 0.676
越後獅子祭
1960 version of Lion Festival of Echigo
release : 1960.02.26popularis : 0.88
Freelance Samurai
One of Japanese folklore's most popular characters is brought to life on the silver screen in this terrific version of legendary Demon slaying Peach...
release : 1957.12.15popularis : 3.068
Jirocho Fuji 2: The Chivalrous
The exciting story of Jirocho and his yakuza gang that controlled the area of the Tokaido during the latter days of the samurai era. Awesome...
release : 1960.06.01popularis : 1.431
The Acrobats of Death
Saotome, a sword master and guard of the Shogunate, pursues the mystery of a deadly aerial weapon that is responsible for the multiple deaths in town.
release : 1959.01.09popularis : 2.744
Shunjû ittôryû
After being expelled from the Chiba Dojo , Hirate Zoshu , along with his acquaintances Tadaki Ganryu and Tamon Jubei, were hired as bodyguards by...
release : 1939.06.01popularis : 0.884
Cantankerous Edo
It's fighting fires and swordsmen with a touch of music in this free-for-all of action and excitement combining the talents of Japan's most popular...
release : 1957.01.09popularis : 1.256
Lady Sen and Hideyori
From the late 1500's through the founding of the Tokugawa Shogunate many battles were fought as the great warlords vied for power over the nation....
release : 1962.03.25popularis : 2.925
Lord Mito 2: The Nation's Vice Shogun
After settling the matter of shogunal succession, the retired Old Lord of Mito finds himself in a sea of trouble when he gets involved in the...
release : 1959.07.12popularis : 3.034
Love Under the Crucifix
The basic story in Love under the Crucifix is about Ogin, daughter of a tea master, who are both Christians in feudal Japan. Ogin falls in love with...
release : 1962.06.03popularis : 5.054
The Sword of Doom
Ryunosuke, a gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate rule, has no moral code and kills without remorse....
release : 1966.02.25popularis : 9.254
A Chivalrous Spirit
An all-star cast highlights this Jidai-Geki classic. Set in the samurai era, this is the tale of period Yakuza. One of the real classics in this...
release : 1958.01.03popularis : 2.303
Conflagration
Learning of his family's collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the Golden Pavilion, must endure acute psychological...
release : 1958.09.22popularis : 3.5
The King
The film takes place at the junction of the two eras of Meiji and Taisho. Sakata Sankichi, an uneducated zori sandal maker, becomes a professional...
release : 1962.11.23popularis : 0.963
Samurai Vendetta
Two amiable samurai wind up on opposite sides of the vendetta between Lord Asano's retainers and the family of Lord Kira that led to the famous...
release : 1959.11.22popularis : 3.057
Hell Worms
A group of bandits flee to the mountains after killing an evil moneylender. Remake of Hiroshi Inagaki's Jigoku no mushi (1938).
release : 1979.12.01popularis : 1.444
Road Warriors
A dashing edition with fights , love, and laughter, in which the sorrows and joys of the guiltless world are colored by the guiltless travel crow,...
release : 1960.05.17popularis : 1.748
White-haired Demon
A man dies in an automobile accident and returns as a white-haired demon and seeks revenge on his wife and her lover
release : 1949.04.11popularis : 0.521
Yaji And Kita's Traveling Diary
A captivating operetta by Masahiro Makino based on Juppensha Ikku's humorous novel "Tōkaidōchū Hizakurige" starring Chiezo Kataoka and...
release : 1938.12.01popularis : 0.808
Kurama Tengu
This is Kanjûrô Arashi's first film with Nikkatsu after his independent production company went bankrupt (many of these independent...
release : 1938.03.15popularis : 1.641
Taiko's Rising in the World
Taikoki is a legendary biography of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who rose to the office of taikō. And the story of this film is about the rise to power...
release : 1938.06.17popularis : 1.512
Wakasama samurai torimonochō o keshō kumo
Movie directed by Sadatsugu Matsuda
release : 1962.12.23popularis : 0.73
Samurai Banners
Kansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea. He enters the service of Takeda, the lord of Kai domain. He...
release : 1969.03.01popularis : 2.996
New Tengu from Mount Kurama
The film is set in Kyoto at the end of the Tokugawa period, when there is a fierce clash between the supporters of the Emperor, who are fighting for...
release : 1965.09.18popularis : 0.984
What Price Love?
Set in the middle of the Edo period (1603-1867), this tragic love story takes its cue from a celebrated historical case tried by magistrate Tadasuke...
release : 1960.09.09popularis : 1.361
Oda Nobunaga
A classic wartime jidaigeki about the life of the famous samurai and first of the "Great Unifiers" of Japan, Oda Nobunaga, with Kataoka Chiezo and...
release : 1940.02.05popularis : 0.563
武蔵と小次郎
As the reputation of Sasaki Kojiro, who traveled through various provinces with his long sword seeking duels, began to spread, he was summoned by...
release : 1952.10.15popularis : 1.552
お役者小僧
The phantom thief, known as the "Actor Kid", who was creating a stir in the Daimyo's mansion, especially in the inner chambers, was called Inaba...
release : 1953.04.15popularis : 1.686
The Brothers who Protect the Mountain
In the mountainous region of Koshu, Taikahara, there was an intense power struggle between the prominent families, Tamaki and Kakukura. Facing the...
release : 1953.10.27popularis : 0.721
快盗三人吉三
On March 11 in the seventh year of Tenpo (1836), a monk named Bennō, who fell in love with a geisha named Oshima, was publicly exposed at...
release : 1954.04.21popularis : 2.037
美男天狗党
During the tumultuous end of the Tokugawa shogunate, the Tengu Party rose in rebellion in Mito. Friends from their hometown, Tanaka Genzo and Fujita...
release : 1954.06.23popularis : 1.46
八州遊侠伝 白鷺三味線
Hatamoto Ooka Gentaro was deeply committed to a future with a beautiful girl named Omachi, a relationship facilitated by his love of the shamisen....
release : 1955.01.09popularis : 0.77
荒木又右衛門
Watanabe Kazuma and Kawai Matagorō from the Bizen Okayama Ikeda clan were close friends, but they inevitably became enemies after Matagorō...
release : 1955.09.21popularis : 2.894
お役者小僧 江戸千両幟
Okazaki Domain samurai Inaba Gotaro accidentally killed a superior while trying to save his beloved geisha, Ko-en. On the run, they were rescued by...
release : 1955.08.10popularis : 2.001
若き日の千葉周作
Chiba Sōsaku, whose childhood name was Otome, was raised by his father Yukiuemon, the successor of the Hokushin Ittō-ryū style, and...
release : 1955.10.04popularis : 0.597
Ejima and Ikushima
This period film is inspired by one of the most notorious scandals to have taken place in Edo-period Japan. The heroine, Ejima, was a lady of the...
release : 1955.10.30popularis : 1.847
Shogun's Holiday
During the reign of Hidetada, the second shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty, the advisor Okubo Hikozaemon (Ganjiro Nakamura) entrusts the young Takechiyo...
release : 1958.02.12popularis : 0.905
Kaiketsu kuro zukin
First film of the The Black Hooded Man series.
release : 1953.11.29popularis : 1.989
大当り男一代
Shinzō, the heir of the prominent Edo lumber dealer Yamashiroya, left home when his stubborn father, Chōzaemon, dismissed his lover, the...
release : 1956.01.22popularis : 2.332
のんき侍大暴れ
In the mid-Tokugawa period, a conflict arose over the "Seiryū Himon," a secret document left by the former shogun Iesai, bequeathing the eighth...
release : 1956.07.13popularis : 1.235
The Sun
Adaptation of the Riichi Yokomitsu novel.
release : 1953.11.18popularis : 0.832
The Kuroda Affair
This adaptation of a Hideji Hojo novel, about the historical uprising of the Kuroda clan in 1633, is told through the eyes of retainer, Daizen. As...
release : 1956.01.08popularis : 1.157
Jigoku bana
Period drama based on the novel by Saisei Murō.
release : 1957.06.25popularis : 1.295
The Skull Coin
“Dokuro sen” (The Skull Coin) is the first film adaptation of the popular novel by Kikuo Sumita. The story evolves around the seven...
release : 1938.01.01popularis : 0.65
Ancient Coins
This 1956 adaptation of the novel with the same title puts more focus on the characters and their interactions than the previous version.
release : 1956.08.29popularis : 0.927
Epic Crash
Utaemon Ichikawa plays the role of Hikoshiro Navate, who has a strong sense of justice and opposes power and tyranny with his will and spirit.
release : 1958.09.23popularis : 1.466
The Revenge of Yukinojo, Part 1: Revenge and Love
The first part of an entertaining historical drama depicting the eventful story of the revenge of an actor with a strange fate, with a variety of...
release : 1954.03.31popularis : 0.494
The Grand Master
Shogi, a Japanese form of chess, is a game that requires skill and determination. When poor sandal-maker Sakata decides to pursue his dream of...
release : 1948.10.18popularis : 2.103
The Kingdom of Jirocho 1
The tale of real-life Yakuza boss Shimizu Jirocho is told from his earliest beginnings as a gambler on the road as he forms his gang and sets out on...
release : 1963.10.19popularis : 3.271
The Kingdom of Jirocho 3
The third part of the story about feudal boss Jirocho and his underlings.
release : 1964.02.08popularis : 1.717
Kojiki Taishô
Gotō Matabei is the most able and fierce samurai of the Kuroda clan. However, he gradually dislikes the ruthless personality of Kuroda Nagamasa...
release : 1952.04.03popularis : 1.235
Tabiwa Oiroke
Will the assassin take my life or will a beautiful woman take my chastity? Or will a beautiful woman take your chastity? On the Tokaido Highway of...
release : 1961.04.26popularis : 2.102
Shinran, Part II
Continuation of the biographical film about the monk Shinran, based on the novel by Eiji Yoshikawa. Shinran, born of the fading aristocratic class,...
release : 1960.09.27popularis : 0.627
Jirocho’s Days of Youth: The Youngest Boss in the Tokai Region
He was married to his lover's butterfly and started a new residence. But good things do not last. In his uncle, Uzaemon in Kawashima, Yoshiji Akaji,...
release : 1961.06.21popularis : 1.49
The Revenge of Yukinojo, Part 2: Dance of Revenge
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...
release : 1954.04.07popularis : 1.173
The Revenge of Yukinojo, Part 3: Sword of Revenge
The final, third part of an entertaining historical drama depicting the eventful story of the revenge of an actor with a strange fate, with a variety...
release : 1954.04.20popularis : 0.697
Akagaki Genzo
Forty-seven Ronin of the Ako clan are waiting for the right moment to avenge the insult and death of their master. The film tells the story of one of...
release : 1938.11.17popularis : 0.896
Echo of Love
A man is brutally murdered and his famed shamisen (a three-stringed musical instrument) called the "Yamabiko" stolen. Prince Kogenta swears to avenge...
release : 1937.07.14popularis : 0.636
Aoi Secret Book
A Golden Age drama depicting the exploits of passionate patriot Uotaro Toge in the midst of a mysterious standoff over the Secret Book of Aoi, which...
release : 1958.03.25popularis : 0.861
The Duel at the Satta Pass
A variety of characters, including ninja Noto, a swordsman disguised as a komuso monk, and a young samurai chasing them, participate in a chaotic...
release : 1962.12.16popularis : 0.629
A contest worth a thousand ryo: In search of a bride
A village samurai with money, power and great masculinity goes to the flourishing city of Edo to have some fun and practice. And here he is attacked...
release : 1960.10.16popularis : 2.009
Lord Mito: All Star Version
In 1691 a terrible fire broke out in Denmacho, Yotsuya, burning down the towns around it, up to the shores of Shibaura. A month and a half later,...
release : 1960.08.07popularis : 5.489
Ghost Ship Part 1
As Part I opens, Jubei (Denjiro Okochi), the best of sea skippers, is unable to overcome the stormy seas of Luzon. All hands on board the Kannonmaru...
release : 1957.09.23popularis : 0.881
Maboroshijō dainiwa shi no senpū
The undercover agent Tsukinosuke Kigurumi successfully escapes with Kirisaku, who possesses the coveted Shinshu Mountain map targeted by the phantom...
release : 1940.11.01popularis : 0.493
Maboroshijō daiichiwa Hida no uzushio
Mt. Norikura's natural fortress, the phantom castle. A white-clad iron mask, offering prayers to the eerie triple-faced deity of the Sennjogadake...
release : 1940.10.10popularis : 0.813
Phantom Castle
Early Japanese three-part samurai / fantasy serial.
release : 1940.10.10popularis : 1.309
The Gay Masquerade
The film won 1959 Blue Ribbon Awards for best actor Raizo Ichikawa and for best cinematography Kazuo Miyagawa. The film also won 1959 Kinema Junpo...
release : 1958.11.29popularis : 0.754
The Coin Thrower Zenigata
The film tells about a young detective Zenigata Heiji who successfully solves a disgusting and unusual case involving the manufacture of counterfeit...
release : 1963.10.13popularis : 1.308
Sansho the Bailiff
In medieval Japan, a woman and her children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was exiled years before.
release : 1954.03.31popularis : 7.875
Gate of Hell
Japan, 1159. Moritō, a brave samurai, performs a heroic act by rescuing the lovely Kesa during a violent uprising. Moritō falls in love...
release : 1953.10.30popularis : 7.68
Yagyu Chronicles 9: Assassin's Sword
The Yagyu Family have been teaching the Shinkage style of fencing for generations. Now a new fencing school has opened in Edo, claiming to be the...
release : 1964.10.14popularis : 2.492
The Ghost Cat of Ouma Crossing
A kabuki actress is murdered. Her pet cat laps its mistress's blood and becomes a demon possessed by the vengeful murder victim.
release : 1954.12.29popularis : 1.673
Onatsu and Seijuro
Based on the popular story of the tragic lovers, Onatsu and Seijuro.
release : 1954.11.01popularis : 0.953
Secret of Naruto
From the pen of Yoshikawa Eiji comes this exciting story. The Naruto Strait separates Tokushima from the islands of Awaji and Honshu. On Tokushima...
release : 1957.09.29popularis : 3.347
Samurai Hawk
1716, Yoshimune becomes the 8th Shogun as high Shogunate officials are attacked. While the government tries to keep these incidents under wraps, they...
release : 1961.03.05popularis : 1.05
The Conspirator
Young lord Saburo Nobuyasu struggles to find comfort in life. His arranged marriage to Tokuhime, daughter of one-time family enemy Oda Nobunaga,...
release : 1961.11.08popularis : 1.349
No Stronger Swords
Featuring some of the finest swordsmen ever to grace the silver screen, this Toei classic tells the story of a battle between the evil sword style...
release : 1959.05.05popularis : 1.208
Shimizu Port of Chivalry
An all-star cast highlights this Jidai-Geki classic. Set in the samurai era, this is the tale of period Yakuza. One of the real classics in this...
release : 1957.01.03popularis : 2.471
Singing Lovebirds
An umbrella maker with a shopping addiction finds himself in dire straits when his debts force him to consider selling his attractive, desirable...
release : 1939.12.14popularis : 3.066
A Martial Crowd
As a result of a superstitious belief that twins bring bad luck to the family, newborn twin princesses are separated. Yukihime, who was sent away to...
release : 1958.06.03popularis : 1.959
Seven from Edo
When Katsukawa, a low ranking vassal, learns that his greedy superior, Tatewaki, has hatched a plan to expand his territory, he and his comrades...
release : 1958.04.30popularis : 1.419
Chikamatsu's Love in Osaka
The adopted son of an Osaka courier falls in love with a prostitute and, discovering that she is about to be purchased by a client, steals money from...
release : 1959.09.13popularis : 4.066
Yagyu Military Art: Jubei's Redemption
In the fifth installment, Yagyu Jubei must prove the innocence of his family who is suspected of conspiring to take Shogun's life.
release : 1963.02.23popularis : 3.248
Story of a Beloved Wife
Story of a Beloved Wife is an autobiographical work based on Shindo's first marriage. Jūkichi Uno stars as a struggling screenwriter, and Nobuko...
release : 1951.09.07popularis : 2.02
The Day the Sun Rose
Shinkichi, a peasant employed as a cloth-dyer, has a dream: in the midst of the civil war which ravages Japan, he hopes to revive the long-banned...
release : 1968.11.23popularis : 1.974
Claws of Iron
During the war a man is bitten by a creature which looks like a cross between a bear and an ape in the jungle. Later he starts to transform to a...
release : 1951.02.24popularis : 0.876
I Saw a Phantom Fish
A village struggles to survive when the nearby lake becomes barren of fish.
release : 1950.05.06popularis : 0.47
Swordsman of the Two Sword Style
The story of Japan’s greatest warrior, Miyamoto Musashi, after his historic duel with Sasaki Kojiro on Ganryu Island.
release : 1956.03.01popularis : 1.607
Young Swordsman
This Japanese action-adventure is set in the 17th century when all forms of swordplay were banned. One fighter, an excellent swordsman believes the...
release : 1963.08.31popularis : 2.67
Miyamoto Musashi: Birth of Two Sword Style
In the third installment of Yoshikawa's novel Musashi, things continue from the 2nd film at the end of battle, where Miyamoto continues on a mission...
release : 1963.08.14popularis : 3.831
Sword for Hire
Soldiers Hayate and Yaheiji secretly escape from their besieged castle. Hayate has left behind his lover, Kano. On his way, Hayate is wounded and...
release : 1952.05.22popularis : 2.423
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 of their earliest films together, superstars...
release : 1956.02.26popularis : 0.749
Yagyu Secret Scrolls
In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which, if revealed, would cause revolution and...
release : 1957.04.14popularis : 5.789
Jirocho Fuji
Legendary yakuza Shimizu Jirocho and his 28 henchmen travel the unruly path from a 'Fire Festival' in Akiba to a decisive battle by the Fujigawa.
release : 1959.06.03popularis : 2.262
The Elegant Swordsman
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.
release : 1934.03.01popularis : 0.965
Banquet Under the Midnight Sun
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....
release : 1932.10.13popularis : 1.038
Ishimatsu from the Forest
The film recounts the tragedy of a young outlaw.
release : 1937.03.18popularis : 0.862
Festival Across the Sea
There is an inn named Asano Ya in the port town, and a beautiful woman works there. Every year, during a local festival, travelling artists and...
release : 1941.05.04popularis : 3.398
Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
After a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he recounts his gruesome family history which saw generations of his ancestors suffer and...
release : 1963.04.28popularis : 6.089
Daredevil in the Castle
During the raging war between the Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans, the swordsman Mohei (whose family has been completely decimated) is recruited by...
release : 1961.01.03popularis : 3.947
Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights
The remake of Yoshikawa's novel continues with the second installment in which Takezo, soon to be Miyamoto Musashi, emerges from the Himeji Castle...
release : 1962.11.17popularis : 4.842
13 Assassins
A sadistic Daimyo (feudal lord) rapes a woman and murders both her and her husband, but even when one of his own vassals commits suicide to bring...
release : 1963.12.07popularis : 3.911
Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijo Temple
In the fourth installment, Musashi's potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of the story at the oddest and most coincidental moments....
release : 1964.01.01popularis : 4.836
Tales of Young Genji Kuro 3
In the third, and final chapter of this epic tale, handsome swordsman Genji helps a vulnerable princess who is in search of a missing scroll that...
release : 1962.03.07popularis : 1.331
Kojiro
Sasaki Kojiro tells the story of the genius who staked his love, glory, and life on a duel with the supreme master of the sword, Miyamoto Musashi...
release : 1967.04.01popularis : 1.734
Snake Princess: Oshima and Sentaro
Young Sentaro struggles to avenge the murder of his younger sister Osuga and their father.
release : 1965.09.18popularis : 1.193
The Yagyu Military Art: Yagyu List
When the country is in peril, Lord Yagyu Tajima summons his son Yagyu Jubei to retrieve the mystical Yagyu Scroll in order to save all of Japan. This...
release : 1963.05.25popularis : 2.477
Case of Umon: The Nanbanzame Murders
The serial killing of a samurai each night by strangulation at various temples confounds investigators and brings a chill to the residents of Edo....
release : 1961.01.15popularis : 0.976
Red Peony Gambler: Second Generation Ceremony
The industrual revolution comes to Japan with the introduction of the railroad system. This led to clashes between boatmen, who livihoods are...
release : 1969.04.10popularis : 1.464
Code Between Brothers
Famous enka singer Saburo Kitajima stars as Katsuji, a traveling craps artist who finds great camaraderie on the road.
release : 1966.04.23popularis : 1.294
Secrets of Fuji 2
Early film directed by Eiichi Kudô.
release : 1959.09.08popularis : 0.922
Souls in the Moonlight II
This is the second installment of the trilogy based on Japan’s greatest novel “The Great Bodhisattva Pass”, following the life and...
release : 1958.04.20popularis : 2.267
Sword Devil
Hanpei is a gentle young samurai that loves flowers. One day, he witnesses an old man's quick draw of the sword. He is so impressed that he becomes...
release : 1965.10.16popularis : 2.117
Shinsengumi Chronicles
As winds of change sweep Japan, an honest man joins the Shinsengumi out of admiration for its leader, and because he wants to live and die as a...
release : 1963.01.03popularis : 3.303
Capricious Young Man
An adventurer and two accomplices unexpectedly invite themselves to a sword tournament and are offered a job with the lord who organized the...
release : 1935.05.30popularis : 0.833
Sleepy Eyes of Death 8: Sword of Villainy
Nemuri Kyoshiro discovers a conspiracy centering around a band of disgruntled samurai wanting to avenge the death of their sensei, a political...
release : 1966.11.09popularis : 3.198
Nichiren and the Great Mongol Invasion
During the 1200's, legendary Buddhist monk Nichiren returns from his studies to lead Japan out of moral crisis and prepare to fight Mongol invaders...
release : 1958.10.01popularis : 2.197
Blood Spilled at Takadanobaba
The tale of Nakayama Yasubei’s duel is famous, even if he in reality probably did not cut down 18 opponents. The story has been related in...
release : 1937.12.31popularis : 1.323
Merciless Blade
The first film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass.
release : 1953.04.23popularis : 0.881
Code Between Brothers 5
Saburo Kitajima, one of Japan’s most famous Enka singers, returns in the fifth of the Kyodai Jingi series. During the early 20th century, Ryuji...
release : 1967.08.12popularis : 2.12
The Master Spearman
This subversive period film features a hotheaded young samurai, Kurodo, who threatens to commit harakiri in response to the humiliation meted out to...
release : 1960.05.15popularis : 1.638
Festival of Swordsmen
During the middle of the Kanei Period (1624-1644) Japan was in the early stages of its most peaceful era. This left a large number of unemployed...
release : 1961.03.21popularis : 1.439
Sazen Tange: The Monkey Pot
A Japanese drama featuring the one-eyed, one-armed swordsman
release : 1954.12.08popularis : 1.59
Duel at Fort Ezo
1864. Samurai Shinbei is sent in a secret mission to Ezo, in the North of Japan, to stop riots of villagers commanded by Jirozaemon. A Russian...
release : 1970.02.09popularis : 2.348
Samurai from Nowhere
Misawa Ihei (Nagato) is traveling with his wife Tae (Iwashita Shima) who abhors the practice of sword fighting for prize money. Tae is the daughter...
release : 1964.05.20popularis : 4.672
The Magoichi Saga
Lord Oda Nobunaga gains control of nearly all of Japan and tries to enlist the aid of Magoichi and his 3.000 gunners.
release : 1969.09.13popularis : 1.387
Chushingura
The vassals of the Asano clan, who surrendered the castle & became wanderers, deceive the enemy and the public, wait for an opportunity to avenge...
release : 1938.03.31popularis : 0.922
Vengeance at Iga
Famed swordsman Araki Mataemon must face his best friend as they are forced to take opposite sides in a vendetta caused by the murder of a family...
release : 1942.08.13popularis : 0.933
Signal Fires of Shanghai
During the Taiping Rebellion of the mid-19th century, anti-Qing (Manchu) Chinese forces led by Taiping commander Li Xiucheng march on Shanghai....
release : 1944.12.28popularis : 1.859
The Wandering Gambler
Date Mosui, a young samurai, one day gets a scolding from a nameless ronin that sets him thinking about what life is all about and his ways of...
release : 1928.08.01popularis : 0.831
Castle of Flames
In 17th century Japan, Young Lord Masato returns after years abroad to find everything changed: his peace-loving father has died in what he soon...
release : 1960.10.30popularis : 1.714
Gyakushû Orochimaru
An early fantasy film starring Tomisaburô Wakayama.
release : 1955.01.29popularis : 0.903
Initiation of the Two-Sword Style
Ito Daisuke's wartime retelling of the Miyamoto Musashi story.
release : 1943.04.01popularis : 1.873
The Red Shadow
Fifteen years after Ishida Mitsunari lost in the battle of Sekigahara, Tokugawa Ieyasu foresees his unavoidable battle with Toyotomi Hideyori and...
release : 1961.12.24popularis : 1.43
Tange Sazen and the Princess
Tange Sazen interferes with an evil plot against the Iga Yagyu family.
release : 1961.05.03popularis : 2.858
Zoku Shimizu Minato
An actor, hit on the head, dreams that he has become legendary one-eyed gangster Mori no Ishimatsu.
release : 1940.07.10popularis : 0.925
Date Masamune the One-Eyed Dragon
The life, adventures and exploits of warlord Date Masamune the One-eyed Dragon: his early youth as an aggressive warrior, the battles he won until...
release : 1942.07.02popularis : 1.379
Ukyunosuke on Patrol
This is one of the most powerfully effective ninja films that dispenses with the silly magic of earlier efforts, and concentrates on an excellent...
release : 1963.11.20popularis : 1.47
The Invisible Swordsman
A coward boy fencer becomes invisible and matchless through a magic pill.
release : 1970.03.21popularis : 1.433
47 Ronin
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their...
release : 1962.11.03popularis : 5.952
Echo in the Mountains
A man is brutally murdered and his famed shamisen (a three-stringed musical instrument) called the "Yamabiko" stolen. Prince Kogenta swears to avenge...
release : 1959.09.20popularis : 2.795
Keepers of Order
Chuji and his family become the primary target of gangs in Nikko headed by Hasshu marshal Nakayama and boss Sukegoro Iioka. Chuji is then aided by...
release : 1962.08.22popularis : 2.276
Road of Chivalry
While on the road, famed Yakuza Boss Jirocho is falsely accused of starting a peasant's uprising and chased by the law. Meanwhile, one of his...
release : 1960.01.03popularis : 5.348
The Wiser Age
Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.
release : 1962.01.14popularis : 1.876
Ninja's Weapon
During a time of war, Lord Ogata is betrayed by two of his closest vassals and killed by his enemy, Sarashina Danjo. Ten years later, Lord Ogata's...
release : 1956.10.31popularis : 1.296
Tragedy of the Coolie Samurai
Gonza was a handsome young laborer, a footman and spear-carrier, working hard for his meager wage. All Gonza wanted was to marry his young...
release : 1963.04.21popularis : 2.513
Ugetsu
In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearby village, in defiance of a local...
release : 1953.03.26popularis : 14.62
The Lightning Sword
Shinjiro is a rambler, a single sword carrying lone wolf with only his fighting skills to protect him. He doesn’t know where his road leads,...
release : 1962.12.08popularis : 2.427
Cases of Hanshichi
Detective Hanshichi (Kataoka Chiezo) solves 3 mysterious murder cases. Great story and an impressive all-star cast, a must see!
release : 1960.10.16popularis : 2.011
Female Ninja Magic
In Osaka during the Edo period, ruler Sanada Yukimura was in losing position, fearing Toyotomi's blood descendents would end, he impregnates one of...
release : 1964.10.03popularis : 1.799
Mysteries of Edo
A princess in disguise, Oshichi launches an investigation to reveal the truth about the disappearance of young women in Edo.
release : 1956.11.07popularis : 0.656
Showdown of Men 4: Tetsu, the White Tiger
Tetsu, is a honourable and noble yakuza caught in a conflict between rival clans, and obligations each has toward their yakuza boss and brothers. A...
release : 1968.01.27popularis : 2.255
Mark of Blood
Three young yakuza, Fujitaro, Matsugoro and Kanjuro, travel the country fighting evil.
release : 1962.10.12popularis : 1.716
The Flower and the Dragon
A story of manly life and the beauty of conjugal love. A story about a man and a woman establishing a family of longshoreman, centering on their love...
release : 1965.11.20popularis : 1.303
Zatoichi's Flashing Sword
Blind masseur Zatoichi is nursed back to health by a young woman after he is shot by a gang member. Zatoichi, who had come to the village to repay a...
release : 1964.07.11popularis : 3.301
Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu
In turbulent 16th-century Japan, the leaders of a minor fief have their child taken from them as a political hostage. His mother and his clan endure...
release : 1965.01.03popularis : 1.452
The South Sea Wolf
Namie's in trouble again, getting snatched by an evil gang in search of treasure. Kirimaru sets out to rescue his sweetheart, and falls in with a...
release : 1961.07.09popularis : 2.115
Sugata Sanshiro
The story of Sanshiro Sugata, a young man who wants to learn the new art of judo. A wise teacher reveals to Sanshiro that judo is not merely a means...
release : 1977.10.29popularis : 2.365
Taira Clan Saga
Special Forces commander Captain Tadamori returns to Kyoto after successfully defeating the uprising of pirates in the western sea of Japan. But...
release : 1955.09.21popularis : 4.212
Hanjiro of Kusama: Bird of Passage
A kindhearted wandering gambler named Hajiro gets involved in a crisis of a village as he passes through and decides to lend a sword in hopes to...
release : 1960.05.29popularis : 2.1
A Samurai Never Tells a Lie
The shogun's vassal Harima Aoyama and a chamber maid are in love with each other, but they cannot be together due to a difference of their status....
release : 1963.05.29popularis : 1.228
On This Earth
1957 drama from director Kôzaburô Yoshimura
release : 1957.11.22popularis : 1.193
Magistrate of Dice
Based on the exploits of real-life historical character Magistrate Toyama no Kinsan, this exciting tale brings the “Demon Magistrate” as...
release : 1961.04.18popularis : 2.099
Yakuza Beasts-Blood Settlement
Third and last movie in the Yakuza Hijoshi trilogy.
release : 1970.02.21popularis : 0.424
The Magical Warrior
Rikitaro and Osayo are popular entertainers who throw knives. They are sweethearts. At one day They help Ocho, who is a beautiful pickpocket when she...
release : 1955.09.06popularis : 1.821
Lords of Oppression
Period drama directed by Yasushi Sasaki.
release : 1957.03.13popularis : 0.924
Lords of Oppression 2
Period drama directed by Yasushi Sasaki.
release : 1957.03.27popularis : 2.274
Sword of Wind and Clouds
This gripping historical drama depicts a clash of swordsmen, secret government spies, mysterious thieves, robbers and roving samurai who want to take...
release : 1963.10.05popularis : 2.62
Revenge for His Lover
Kamio a mistreated samurai clerk of Edo Castle and ronin (“Sir Quarrel”) Ibara, take up a vendetta against 17 wicked castle men.
release : 1962.11.11popularis : 1.799
Dedication of the Great Buddha
Dedication of the Great Buddha is a 1952 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.
release : 1952.03.20popularis : 2.302
Isshin Tasuke: Edoites Festival
A costumed film featuring the famous hero of Japanese history, Isshin Tasuke, arranged in the form of a popular song.
release : 1967.04.20popularis : 2.589
Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi
Nezumi Kozō is the nickname of Nakamura Jirokichi, a Japanese thief and folk hero who lived in Edo during the Edo period. His exploits have been...
release : 1965.04.03popularis : 3.401
Taki no shiraito
A 1946 Japanese film directed by Keigo Kimura.
release : 1946.10.01popularis : 1.012
Last Days of Edo
It is a historical drama that follows Katsu Kaishu's efforts to surrender Edo Castle bloodlessly in the first year of the Meiji period.
release : 1941.11.28popularis : 2.62
Kill!
A pair of down-on-their-luck swordsmen arrive in a dusty, windblown town, where they become involved in a local clan dispute. One, previously a...
release : 1968.06.22popularis : 4.612
Japan's Longest Day
Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the...
release : 1967.08.03popularis : 6.95
The Greatest Man in the World
In the midst of the depression, two ronin rack their brains to come up with a dishonest scheme. Taking a man from the countryside, they fashion him...
release : 1932.01.14popularis : 2.102
Kuriyama Daizen
Prewar jidaigeki starring Denjiro Okochi
release : 1936.11.12popularis : 2.305
Bored Hatamoto: Island of No Return
Part of the Bored Hatamoto series. The most popular samurai in Edo, Saotome Mondonosuke, known to most as the "Bored Hatamoto" is the only one who...
release : 1960.01.09popularis : 0.848
Jiraiya
Based on the old tale of Jiraiya, this 1937 version is essentially a revenge story with fantastic visuals.
release : 1937.12.31popularis : 0.354
Edo Purebreed
Action and adventure abound in this story of friendship between two rival firefighters, Kichigoro and Jirokichi in old Japan. When Mukai Sadayu, the...
release : 1961.02.07popularis : 2.032