Movies

Kichizaburo, a samurai keeping peace in Edo, helps a young geisha Kozome avenge her father’s death.

A Japanese melodrama about three sisters, rival fashion companies, and attempted murder by overheated bathroom.

Reputedly based on Frank Capra’s 1939 film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, A Descendant of Tarô Urashima is about a repatriated soldier who...

In Kyoto, a samurai named Boredom Otoko, Sosuke Saotome, appears and helps a woman being chased by a spy named Genshichi. Unfortunately, the woman is...

1942 adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's novel.

Bright samurai movie innovatively adapted from a classic story. A traveling masterless samurai is asked by a daughter of an established samurai...

1962 Japanese movie

One of Japan's most enduring stories is the true-life yakuza boss Jirocho of Shimizu and his gang as they took over the Tokaido Highroad and went on...

A stage director who directs a “Mori no Ishimatsu” play time travels and becomes “Mori no Ishimatsu” himself.

Jirocho and his henchmen befriend Ishimatsu, a wanderer in Mishima.

Adaptation of the Riichi Yokomitsu novel.

Lord for a Night is a 1946 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.

Early adaptation of the book "The Inugami Clan", featuring the detective Kōsuke Kindaichi.

Period drama directed by Yasushi Sasaki.

Finding more freedom on the high seas than in war-torn Japan, the 'Bahansen' (Pirate ships) based on the Seto Inland Sea during the Warring Period...

1950s Japanese comedy.

It was supposed to be about a love story, but it was and was not. An aircraft mechanic working for the government is matched by his boss with the...