Hiroshi Ookawa

With World War II is coming to its end and Japan nearing defeat, Japanese military leaders step up suicide attacks on Allied ships. Toei legend Koji Tsuruta stars as a Kamikaze squad leader who has second thoughts about suicide runs. He becomes torn between his own morality and his duty to his country when he must deal with a pilot under his command who refuses to complete his mission.

This anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when assassins changed the course of Japanese history.

La pacífica vida de Hayato con sus padres y su perro, se ve alterada cuando la ciudad es devastada por una nave fantasma, provocando una matanza en la que también pierde la vida sus padres. Antes de morir, este le rebela que él no es realmente su hijo. Hayato está ahora solo, luchando en un mundo nuevo y extraño trás el desatre. Su única meta será descubrir quien está detrás de las fuerzas misteriosas y lograr vencerlas. Lev Atamanov, aclamado animador ruso, se encargó de gran parte de la animación del film.

La historia narra como el valiente y joven Hols cumple con la última voluntad de su difunto padre, buscar su pueblo, que años atrás fue arrasado por el demonio Grunwald. Sólo la Espada del Sol podrá acabar con el demonio y para ello necesitará la ayuda de los hombres, comprendiendo así Hols la importancia de estar unidos... Primera película dirigida por Isao Takahata, contó con Hayao Miyazaki como máximo responsable de la animación y Toei Douga la estrenó en cines japoneses en 1968, llegando a EEUU durante los años 80 bajo el nombre de "El Pequeño Príncipe Nórdico Valiente" (Little Norse Prince).

The film is dedicated to the souls of flight school graduates killed in World War II. Young boys dream about becoming pilots and apply to flight schools. However, the flight schools have extremely demanding, harsh training, and once they finally become pilots, they must become suicide bombers and give their lives for their homeland.

Los protagonistas de la obra son el pequeño hijo de un zapatero, Andersen, y la joven Elisa, desempeñando también un importante papel el tío Oley, que representa la imaginación, el elemento mágico, la fantasía y consuela a los niños pobres. Mientras, Hans sueña con contar historias maravillosas a los niños como el tío Oley. Con este punto de partida la película nos irá mostrando relatos que en un futuro escribirá, como "El patito feo", "El soldadito de plomo", "Las zapatillas rojas", "El mago de los sueños", "Los ratoncitos" o "Candelita, la fosforera". Todo ello entrelazado con divertidos momentos musicales.

Japanese comedy film.

A comedy about a good-natured train conductor Shinsaku helping his old friend Miwako find her missing brother.

Story of loyal sailors giving their lives for their country as human torpedoes towards the end of the War.

A comedy about Hikoichi, a mediocre train conductor who falls in love with a beautiful widow Sayuri.

Atsumi Kiyoshi, famous for his role in Torasan, stars as Aoki Goichi, a veteran train conductor who dedicates himself in providing quality service to his passengers. With his many years of experience, he never fails to find solutions for any troubles that occur along the way. A comedic drama revolving around the lives of those who ride the express train.

A story of young students trained to become Kamikaze pilots in World War II.

Nueve personas, ocho hombres y una mujer, de distintas nacionalidades son convertidos en cyborgs con superpoderes por la malvada corporación Black Ghost, que se dedica a provocar guerras y destrucción por todo el mundo con su tecnología avanzada. Con la ayuda del científico Isaac Gilmore, supervisor en la creación de los cyborgs, los nueve se rebelan contra sus creadores y escapan de su control, iniciando así una vida repleta de aventuras y batallas frente a Black Ghost. De los nueve, el más poderoso es el Cyborg 009, el último en ser creado por Gilmore, Joe Shimamura, que había sido un delincuente juvenil hasta que fue "convertido". Él será el encargado de capitanear a sus compañeros frente a los nuevos cyborgs que Black Ghost está creando para que acaben con los nueve traidores.

A touching story following young shamisen string maker, Saku. Beautiful Saku moves to Lake Yogo, known for its production of quality shamisen strings, only to find her peaceful life turned upside down when a master musician takes personal interest in her.

In old Japan, the legend of the ninja lives on in Watari, the Ninja Boy, a motion picture like no other. This is the story of a young boy with almost mystical powers. His skills in ninjutsu are beyond the imagination as he infiltrates the rival Iga clan to expose their evil leader.

Nueve personas, ocho hombres y una mujer, de distintas nacionalidades son convertidos en cyborgs con superpoderes por la malvada corporación Black Ghost, que se dedica a provocar guerras y destrucción por todo el mundo con su tecnología avanzada. Con la ayuda del científico Isaac Gilmore, supervisor en la creación de los cyborgs, los nueve se rebelan contra sus creadores y escapan de su control, iniciando así una vida repleta de aventuras y batallas frente a Black Ghost. De los nueve, el más poderoso es el Cyborg 009, el último en ser creado por Gilmore, Joe Shimamura, que había sido un delincuente juvenil hasta que fue "convertido". Él será el encargado de capitanear a sus compañeros frente a los nuevos cyborgs que Black Ghost está creando para que acaben con los nueve traidores.

The fifth and final installment with the build up of the epic battle between Sasaki Kojiro and Miyamoto Musashi. With all the familiar characters making appearances: Otsu (Musashi's great love), Akemi, Matahachi (his former fellow soldier), old lady Osugi (still doggedly trying to defeat Musashi), and even the return of Priest Takuan (the man responsible for his journey towards enlightenment). But most of all, the boastful, long-haired and long-sworded Sasaki Kojiro.

Three stories revolve around independence, a man searching for his wife, and a poor craftsman trying to make money.

Un exitoso hombre de negocios es acechado por su pasado cuando una prostituta lo reconoce como asesino.

Set in the pleasure district of Kyoto, Tamiko (Yoshiko Mita, in her first lead role) is a young girl attending high school by day and training as a geisha at night She sees her future as an entertainer, not a prostitute, & she expects a happy marriage with a medical student, Yasuke (Katsuo Nakamura), a sweet fellow she deeply loves. but things started to getting worse for Tamiko and she's forced to become the mistress of the disgusting Tsukada (Seiji Miyaguchi).

A young man longs to travel to Hawaii, the birthplace of his deceased father, against the wishes of his family, who are estranged from those relatives in Waikiki.

A modern gang version of Chushingura, chronicling almost scene for scene the Brave 47 Ronin story, transposed from the Genroku Period to the Showa Era.

When Kanbe Nagakichi has his turf taken over by Ano-Toku, the father-in-law of his sworn brother Kira Nikichi sets in motion one of the most violent gang battles in Japanese history. Forced by the situation to choose between family and yakuza honor, Nikichi faces off against the vile combination of Ano-Toku and Kurokoma Katsuzo, villains so low as to ambush their foes using snipers. Nikichi, who owes allegiance to Boss Jirocho of Shimizu asks Jirocho to spare Ano-Toku’s life until events force a showdown between the 30 member Shimizu gang and a force of over 200 men fighting on Ano-Toku’s behalf. Meanwhile, a mysterious samurai may hold the key to deciding the outcome of this battle!

A story about the lives of four sisters and their manipulative mother who must come to terms with each of their decisions in life.

A carpenter, Shigetsugu, learns a lesson of love and humanity from five orphaned children and an affectionate woman named Oritsu. It's a winning combination of drama and humor. The warm friendship that grows between the carpenter, the woman and the children making this into a true masterpiece.

Friendship between an ambitious young thief and an artist during the Warring States period.

A court fortune-teller loses his mind after a conspiracy leads to the death of his lover. Hope appears to be on the horizon after he becomes romantically involved with his dead lover’s twin sister, but more complications arise thanks to a chance encounter with a clan of shape-shifters.

G-men challenge a jewelry smuggling ring. The chase starts in Kyushu and continues to Kobe to Yokohama.

En el año 1637, en Shimabara durante la era Tokugawa, los campesinos cristianos oprimidos se rebelan contra el Shogunato bajo el amparo del carismático líder Shiro Amakusa.

A touching story about a young boy, Genta, who bravely takes on life's challenges in hopes of finding a better life for himself and his sickly mother.

Young lord Saburo Nobuyasu struggles to find comfort in life. His arranged marriage to Tokuhime, daughter of one-time family enemy Oda Nobunaga, provides little happiness. His manipulative mother adds further complications through her constant interference and attempts at defeating the Nobunaga family.

Detective Morgan and the Japanese police cooperate to unveil the truth of the mysterious death of Morgan’s friend in Arizona.

Un ambicioso oficial que desea destruir a un honesto gobernador, ordena a sus secuaces que lo capturen junto a toda su familia. A pesar de sus intentos de huída, el gobernador es capturado y muere en prisión. La madre también muere, pero se transforma en grulla. Robin y su hermana tienen algo más de suerte: son vendidos como esclavos al intendente Sansho. Robin trata de escapar de la crueldad a que son sometidos, pero su hermana cae en un río donde se convierte en sirena. Robin con la ayuda de sus amigos animales, un perro, un oso y un ratón, tratará de recuperar las posesiones arrebatadas y poner fin al tráfico de esclavos de Sansho. Estilizada adaptación del cuento clásico "El intendente Sansho", que ya había filmado Kenji Mizoguchi en 1954.

In this first episode, we are introduced to Takezo, what Musashi used to be before he became the man of legend. His beginning are not exactly auspicious. He sides with the Toyotomi at Sekigahara, and as a result finds himself on the losing side of the historic battle. He and his friend Matahachi manage to escape the slaughter although the latter is wounded in his leg. They stumble across the young Akemi who makes her living with her mother Oko by robbing corpses of their armor and anything else they can sell. Oko takes it into her head to seduce Matahachi, which she does first by skillfully sucking the gangrene from his blood, and then just by sucking.

Toei’s 10th anniversary film, featuring an all-star cast from the golden movie era of the 1960s. A famous story of the 47 loyal samurai. When Lord Asano is unjustly executed, his loyal retainers strike back for revenge.

A human drama of crew and passengers on a special express train named “Sakura” from Tokyo to Nagasaki...

When the plague threatens a small town in Manchuria, a young doctor finds himself struggling to save the lives of his townspeople.

Todo el mundo que crea en la magia habrá oído hablar de una isla que flota en el cielo sobre las costas de Japón. Allí la vida era tranquila hasta que Alakazam, el pequeño rey de los animales, se atrevió a desafiar con su magia al rey Amos, un moncarca querido por todos. Adaptación del manga homónimo de Tezuka que a su vez se basaba en la novela Journey to the West de Ch’eng-En Wu.

La tormentosa historia de los Shinsengumi es contada desde su nacimiento por el gran cineasta Sasaki Yasushi, con un elenco de estrellas basado en la historia original de Shirai Kyoji. Con el gran Chiezo Kataoka como Kondo Isami, junto con el apoyo de la mayoría de las más grandes estrellas del estudio Toei, incluyendo a Ryutaro Otomo, Okawa Hashizo, y Wakayama Tomisaburo; la lucha entre los realistas y partidarios del shogunato ha llegado a un punto álgido durante el Festival de Gion así como el plan de los exclusionistas para quemar Kyoto y secuestrar al emperador.

This subversive period film features a hotheaded young samurai, Kurodo, who threatens to commit harakiri in response to the humiliation meted out to his family by the Shogun. The film critiques the inhumanity of feudal obligations, and Uchida’s direction slyly satirizes the contemporary cinematic audience, whose taste for onscreen bloodshed is mirrored in a crowd gathering to watch the protagonist’s planned suicide. The Master Spearman is imbued with Uchida’s characteristic blend of dark humor and stylized action, and Ryutaro Otomo gives an admirable performance in the lead.

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 henchmen in an attempt to raise money for the Boss gambles away not only all their funds, but their clothing as well. Jirocho, famed for his honesty and integrity must take on the challenge of rival gangs while trying to elude the government's officials at the same time. Things really heat up when the most famous of all Yakuza Bosses, Chuji of Kunisada gets involved. Will he team up with his old friend or is gang warfare about to erupt?

En el Japón medieval, un niño llamado Saske y su hermana viven en un bosque junto con varios pequeños animales de diferentes especies. Un día, uno de los animales es agarrado por un águila y arrojado a un lago. Saske y otro animal saltan en el lago para salvarlo. Sin embargo, una monstruosa salamandra aparece y devora a uno de los animales. Saske intenta luchar contra el monstruo, pero es derrotado. Y la bestia que sale del lago, revelando su verdadera forma: una bruja llamada Yakusha. La hermana de Saske le dice Yakusha fue transformada en una salamandra de hace milenios por un poderoso mago y que ahora pudo reunir la energía suficiente para tener su forma normal de nuevo. ¡Y ahora ella quiere instaurar un reino de terror en Japón! Entonces, Saske decide buscar un maestro mago para aprender a luchar contra Yakusha para salvar Japón y vengar la muerte de su mascota.

Nakamura Yukinojo gains popularity in Edo's kabuki scene as a handsome onnagata (a male actor who plays female roles). But hidden behind the placid expression of his stage face is a deep grudge for the men responsible for dishonoring his parents' names and leading them to suicide when he was still a child. When he discovers that the mastermind behind those crimes has come to see him act onstage, he begins in earnest to plot his revenge. With the help of a renowned Robin Hood-like thief named Yamitaro, he makes out his first target: the daughter of the man who orchestrated his parents' demise.

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 his employer to redeem her. Hunted criminals, the two young lovers take flight to Yamato, but, as in Chikamatsu's other domestic tragedies of love and duty (known as sewamono), they must be pursued and their passion destroyed by death. Favourite Uchida themes, such as the indenturing of a prostitute (cf. YOSHIWARA; A BLOODY SPEAR AT MT. FUJI), and his characteristic emphasis on performance and theatrical artifice re-emerge here; but the daring device of having Chikamatsu appear as a character - not unlike having Shakespeare interpolated into a film adaptation of one of his plays - is just one of many surprises this remarkable film holds. “Extraordinary” (Donald Richie).

One of the great stories from Japan’s rich history comes to life in this true tale of the bloody showdown between two rival yakuza gangs in the 1840’s. The battle between Boss Sukegoro of Iioka and Boss Shigezo of Sasagawa has been portrayed many times, most notably in the first Zatoichi film, where the blind man befriends the tubercular ronin Hirate Miki, before cutting him down in one of the great duels in cinema history. This all-star extravaganza pulls out all the stops, with appearances by virtually all of the great actors and actresses from Toei’s studio at the time. Ichikawa Utaemon’s portrayal of the kind-hearted, noble yakuza boss Shigezo of Sasagawa contrasts sharply with the devious Sukegoro of Iioka. Corrupt as he may have been, his men were all willing to give up their lives for him.

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 called ”Otonashi” (The Silent Form) and the proper way of swordsmanship as promoted by such historical stalwarts as Shimada Toranosuke, and the mysterious Honda Sakon, who face off against a group masquerading as the lord of Mito and his traveling bodyguards Suke-san and Kaku-san. The plot thickens as their leader unveils his secret plan to disrupt the stability of the nation. It is all in the name of swordsmanship, and as the title implies there are no stronger swordsmen!

Master swordsman, Tsukue Ryunosuke is confronted by the families of his victims. Will justice be served for the lost innocent lives? The conclusion of the famed Jidaigeki series is an amazing film, with a completely different perspective on the story from the later versions. While the international audience is more familiar with the “Sword of Doom” and “Satan’s Sword” versions of Daibosatsu Toge (The Great Bodhisattva Pass), the “Souls in the Moonlight” trilogy casts an entirely different light on Ryunosuke and his motives. Can this brutal killer be brought to justice, or is living his life as a blind wanderer a more terrible fate? His sword skills have not diminished, nor has his desire to kill!

A drama about relations between Japanese immigrants and the indigenous Ainu on Hokkaido, the most northerly island of Japan. From a novel by Taijun Takeda.

Sayuri, a young woman born to a simple life on a farm, moves to Tokyo to pursue a life long dream of becoming a singer. Through dance, music, and songs, this story shows how a girl raised on a farm was able to make her dream a reality, with the love of those around her.

When Katsukawa, a low ranking vassal, learns that his greedy superior, Tatewaki, has hatched a plan to expand his territory, he and his comrades decide to take matters into their own hands. Lots of action in this all-star production from Toei Films, the foremost studio during that era. As with so many of their films, this is highly entertaining, with lots of plot twists and exciting swordplay

This is the second installment of the trilogy based on Japan’s greatest novel “The Great Bodhisattva Pass”, following the life and times of bloodthirsty samurai, Tsukue Ryunosuke. Blinded in an explosion and further injured from a fall, the master swordsman is taken in by Otoyo, a woman who falls in love with him. Under Otoyo’s dedicated care, Ryunosuke’s physical and emotional wounds seem to heal. However, deep inside, the demons that drive him to kill yearn to resurface. Meanwhile he is being pursued by Utsugi Hyoma, a young samurai seeking to avenge his brother’s death at Tsukue’s hands. Hyoma is being aided along the way by the clever thief Shichibei.

One of Japan’s most popular folklore characters, Tange Sazen, the one-eyed and one-armed swordsman, must rescue the Yagyu clan from the treachery of a master plotting to take control over a sword fighting school.

This most celebrated all-star movie version of the popular series features Tsukigata Ryunosuke as Mito Komon, the sage who wanders the countryside rectifying government corruption along with his faithful attendants Suke and Kaku.

In the mist of the warring age (Sengoku Era), the Kyushu based Hayato Clan is faced with a monumental battle to determine their survival.

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 only living heir, now a skilled ninja, uses sorcery to avenge the murders of his parents.

Road movie tragicómica ambientada durante el período Edo. La historia de un samurái, sus dos sirvientes, incluido el portador de lanzas Genpachi, y las diversas personas que conocen en su viaje, incluido un policía que persigue a un ladrón, un niño pequeño y una mujer que será vendida como prostituta.

The story about the rise and fall of the famed mercenaries, Shinsengumi, who are hired by a crumbling feudal government.

A group of Okinawan high school girls are drafted as nurses during the American invasion of the island. As the enemy army advances further, the situation for the girls becomes increasingly desperate as food and shelter run out and the number of injured climbs, leading to the film's tragic finale.