Kenjiro Uemura

Shigeki Kachi, Tosuke Satomura, and Nanako, who belong to the theater company Vuanbert around Dosa, withdrew at the indignation of the chairman...

Emi Ikushima, a star actress in the Roses, is half-hearted, but she wasn't disappointed by the news of her father Enmy's sudden death, and she...

Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, Kaji witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts...

A young idealistic doctor works at his father's clinic in a small and seedy district. During the war, he contracts syphilis from the blood of a...

A man and a woman meet through a strange fate. This unique melodrama depicts the course of their budding love in a corner of the big city.

Tsunetaro Asakura AKA "Dynamite Tsune" is a talented gambler, but not infallable. After losing his Boss's money in a dice game he repays his debt by...

A former boxer gets involved with a club hostess trying to escape the clutches of her gangster employer.

The action of this historical drama takes place against the background of poverty and hunger in the city of Edo and depicts young people rebelling...

A decapitation at the hands of the shogun's monstrous misbegotten son kicks off the action and draws nomadic Nemuri Kyoshiro (Raizô Ichikawa)...

Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He makes the best of his situation by performing...

"Tomorrow is Another Day" tells the story of three brothers who struggle to shake free of the father's ties to the yakuza underworld. A star vehicle...

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war...

Based on a novel by Tei Fujiwara

A crime film released in 1965

Japan, 1159. Moritō, a brave samurai, performs a heroic act by rescuing the lovely Kesa during a violent uprising. Moritō falls in love with her,...

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...

Director Teruo Ishi's crime action follows the investigative adventures of an undercover cop working with a prostitution ring. It's done in an unique...

The story of Kiyoko, a young woman who has successfully managed to make a break with her dysfunctional family who have been trying to arrange a...

Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Anko naze naku" by Takeo Fujishima.

Horror film directed by Kôzô Saeki.

Ninth and final film in the Boy Detectives Club series. Features Tatsuo Umemiya's film debut.

Japanese musical.

Japanese crime film.

Japanese drama film.

The 3rd Moonlight Mask movie from the 50s.

A bus making its precarious way across a winding mountain road picks up some unwelcome passengers.

Three Iga ninja are on a hunt for Chidoken, a Takeda ninja sent out to assasinate Lord Nobunaga.

A coming-of-age story about two newcomers to the world of professional baseball who compete for Rookie of the Year honors and love.

Nominated for Golden Berlin Bear.

An action masterpiece about Might Guy Akira, a hot-blooded man who explodes against the backdrop of a large landfill full of intrigue and violence.

Sheriff Goro goes undercover to investigate drug smugglers.

An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.

Asako, a former telephone operator once heard the voice of a murder suspect which has continued to haunt her. Years later her husband invites his...

A jobless young couple, Yoshigi and Tsutue, wind up at the outskirts of the Suzaki red-light district in Tokyo. Tsutue talks her way into a job...

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

A wave of terror is threatening to unseat Shogun Yoshimune. Police stations are erupting into flames, convicts escaping from prison, houses robbed...

Ruriko's father is a well known scientist who's involved in secret research that even his family doesn't know about. Ever since he moved up to the...

Based on the comic by Kaoru Akiyoshi

Based on the novel of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.

Based on the short story The Psychological Test by Edogawa Rampo.

A biopic about Japanese baseball player, Tetsuharu Kawakami.

The Akiba and Shimura crime families run the streets of “K City”. With the construction of new buildings and new factories underway, the...

Based on the novel The Vampire (Kyūketsuki) by Edogawa Ranpo.

The first postwar war movie depicting the tragedy of a special force that shook the world at the end of the Pacific War, with thrill and speed

Popular Japanese Group Sounds band, The Spiders, star in their second movie, a "HELP!" inspired rock n roll spy movie!

A band of guerrillas fight against occupying British forces in Malaya.

A remake of High Noon (1952) as a Japanese jidai-geki sword-fighting movie.

On his way to Tokyo one night, a truck driver picks up a country girl and has his way with her amidst a forest. A few days later he loses his job...

When a young woman is named as the prime suspect in a murder, her girlfriend and her girlfriend's boyfriend set out to prove her innocence. Their...

The love story between a traveling guest and a geisha who inadvertently becomes the leader of her father's yakuza clan, after his death.

Asakura was told he could leave the gang if he killed Takahata, but he failed and was sentenced to two years. When he was released, the Oyane group...

Dedication of the Great Buddha is a 1952 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.

Adaptation of the original story by Hida Yoshiro, whose depiction of the world of the yakuza is unparalleled. Gisuke, a weather-beaten yakuza with...