Seiichirô Kameishi

The fate of Tokugawa’s world hangs in the balance as Yagyu Jubei is sent on a mission to discover what happened to 10 of the shogun’s spies that never returned. Matsukata Hiroki, one of the last surviving members of the Golden Age of Japanese Cinema proves that he has not lost a step as he portrays an older and wiser Yagyu Jubei in a movie that brings the best of samurai filmmaking into the 21st century. Summoned from semi-retirement by Shogun Iemitsu, Jubei is asked to take to the road and investigate a clan rumored to be preparing explosives for a rebellion. With help from a beautiful female ninja they head into the Shirakawa domain where the fighting skills of both are tested time and again as they strive to destroy a conspiracy that could bring a new Warring States Era. In the 1960's Yagyu Jubei was the signature role of the great Konoe Jushiro, father of Matsukata Hiroki. This brings the character full circle.

The wife of a wealthy man hires memory erasing agents to erase the memory of the young lover with whom he is having an affair, but soon realizes that the young lover will stop at nothing to keep the man's love for her alive.

Home-design sales representative Tomohiro lives with his wife and their son. As his job involves houses, it is his motto to take great care of the family who live in the house. However, he has been working so hard that he has forgotten to cherish his own family. When he looks after a client who wants to leave her father-in-law in a nursing home, it reminds him of his grandmother whom he loved so much. Father's death, grandmother's struggle with disease, and home care - those were grueling times, but the memories have become invaluable for Tomohiro. He realizes his family is the most precious thing of all. On a day off, he and his family decide to visit his mother who lives alone in their old hometown.

In the midst of a bad economy, Yokoyama, the vice president of Taiyo Real Estate, launches a plan to cut back on his labor force. Fifty employees are segregated into a special assignment division and given an ultimatum: meet a sales goal of 1.5 billion yen within three months or be fired. Spiteful of their unjust treatment, two men, Shinoda and Takigawa, take up the battle against the ruthless Yokoyama.

From all over Japan, the greatest warriors: Yagyu Jubei, Miyamoto Musashi, Araki Mataemon, and more came to test their blades in a tournament of swords. But behind the match a bloodthirsty plot is born. Tokugawa Yorinobu, a corrupt shogunate official plans to assassinate Shogun Iemitsu and take his place. With scheming samurai Yui Shosetsu and ruthless Negoro ninja leader Genyusai, he plans to incite a ronin uprising and cut a bloody trail across Japan, with terrifying Chinese gunboats to back his play. Matsudaira Izu-no-kami, councilor and friend to the shogun, along with master swordsman Yagyu Jubei and ninja master Hanzo Hattori must stop Yui Shosetsu and his army of ronin and ninja assassins from tearing the country in half and taking over the government!

Yojiro orders a samurai to kill a debtor. The samurai decides not to trust the judgment of his master, which makes him an outcast and he has to flee...

人気劇画「あしたのジョー」の最初の実写映画。泥沼の世界から這い上がっていくジョーが、友情に支えられ、現代社会のジャングルに敢然と立ち向かう、血と汗と傷だらけの物語。

Story about a gambler who gets involved in a struggle between companies.

Getting an opportunity to meet with another half-Caucasian swordsman, Kyoshiro finds himself involved in a series of dangerous encounters.

BLOOD END is one of the great unknown films from Japan's golden era of the late 1960's. Starring NAKADAI Tatsuya in one of his best roles, this is the story of the Mito Tengu Group who attempted to overthrow the Shogunate at the beginning of the Bakumatsu Period. Their political aspirations led to countless assassinations, as well as senseless killing of innocent people who got in their way. Sentaro (NAKADAI), a farmer who's been severely beaten for his outspoken defiance of the government and the high taxes during a time of famine is befriended by one of the group's leaders, KADA Gentaro (KATO Go) and joins up. This is the masterpiece of director YAMAMOTO Satsuo (who is best known for the first film in the NINJA, BAND OF ASSASSINS series) the erstwhile 'Leftist' director, who used his films to make his political points. Stunning fight choreography, and ultra-violence make this one of the bloodiest films of that era. A powerful film Rare classic!

江島組二代目組長・江島美樹は、出所して、久しぶりの川崎に帰ってきた。同じ川崎の佐川組々長・佐川剛介の肝入りで、美樹歓迎の宴が開かれた。その席上、美樹は、佐川に“関東明和会結成発起人名簿”を示され、加入するよう要請された。美樹は、返事を預けた。美樹の考えも決らぬまま“関東明和会”の会長選挙が行なわれ、若いがやり手と評判の大沢良平が会長に推された。美樹の一票が自分の思うままにならなかった佐川は、美樹に言いがかりをつけてきた。それは佐川の罠だった。それを知らない憲治は、佐川組の子分を刺した。その結果、美樹は、関東ところ払いにされてしまった。江島組解散をせまる佐川に対して、大沢が代紋を預って、危機は免がれ、美樹は、旅に出た。だが旅の風は冷たく佐川の差し金で、行く先々の親分衆は会おうとしなかった。ある温泉で、旅の疲れをいやしていた美樹は、筒井という大阪のやくざに襲われた。温泉宿の板場の機智で危く難を逃がれた美樹は、隠れた女中部屋で、探していた憲次の恋人・秋子にめぐり逢った。そして再び襲ってきた筒井を倒した美樹は、秋子を連れて八王子に行き、そこから大沢に電話を入れた。そして、憲治と秋子は、電話で愛を確かめ合った。八王子から先へ入れぬ美樹のため、大沢と憲治は車を飛ばした。が、突如現われたダンプカーに激突され、重傷を負った二人にダンプから銃弾が浴びせられた。任侠一途に生きぬいてきた美樹は、ところ払いの身ながら、川崎に戻り、真昼の街頭で、恨み重なる佐川を真向から刺した。

江島一家二代目を襲名した江島美樹は大阪にやって来た。その頃、あくどい東西会の千田兄弟に絶縁状を叩きつけたことから島田が殺された。その日、東西会の五十嵐が、刑期を終えて出所した。美樹は通夜の席で島田組の再興を誓った。ところが、千田兄弟は島田の負債八百万円の期限切れをたてに家屋敷までも差押えにかかった。美樹はその話をつけるために東西会を訪ねたが、だまって帰す千田ではなかった。ライフル銃を発射しながら迫る一味から、美樹を救ったのは、九州からやって来た仁侠男荒巻だった。荒巻が一味相手に鉄腕をふるったことから、千田組の策略は一層悪辣になった。そして、千田にそそのかされた島田組の子分が荒馬親分の縄張りを荒した。この一件は、美樹に指をつめさせた。五十嵐は、度を重ねる千田兄弟の行為をたしなめたが効果はなかった。それどころか、千田に射たれ重傷を負う始末だった。やがて、美樹が短刀を構えて東西会に乗込んだ。五十嵐は仁侠の義理からひん死の身を美樹に向けなければならなかった。五十嵐を倒した美樹に千田たちの銃が火を吐いた。しかし、美樹の短刀は次々と子分を倒し、やがて千田の悪運もつきた。五十嵐は、美樹の活躍を見とどけると世を去った。

Hidejuro is sent to prison after killing the boss of a rival family. After being released, he discovers that his family has scattered and he is taken in by a company of quarry workers, whose boss has a strict code of non-violence. When the rival family tries to take over the company and kills their boss, Hidejuro must choose between his promise of non-violence and his yakuza code of revenge...

Eleventh film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.

白い素肌に赤いバラ! ギターに秘めた両刃のナイフ! 港々の盛り場で派手に売り出す女三匹! 神崎みな子は、縄張り争いから姿を隠した兄の行方を追って、同僚の白浜たまき、藤川よし枝と関西の港町までやってきた。 ところが、このあたりを牛耳る畑中一家は、彼女たちを自分の経営するクラブの専属にしようと、事あるごとに流しの邪魔立てをした。 業を煮やしたみな子は、畑中一家の若親分・吉蔵を訪ね、ダイスでその決着をつけることになるのだが……。

With his penultimate film, Uchida revisited one of his popular prewar titles, 1936’s Theatre of Life, an adaptation of Shiro Ozaki’s eponymous novel. Three-time Seijun Suzuki collaborator Goro Tanada wrote a gangsterized adaptation of Ozaki’s story for Uchida at a time when the yakuza had eclipsed the samurai genre as Toei's main cash crop. Protagonist Hishakaku murders a man in a quarrel over a barmaid and goes to jail. In his temporary absence, his girlfriend Otoyo, a former geisha, falls for Hishakaku’s brother, inciting a dangerous love triangle that, in typical yakuza fashion, ends tragically.

After World War II, their town was a pile of rubble. Gennosuke, the second-generation boss of the Kamizu Group was upholding yakuza chivalry by keeping black-market and illegal items out of their open-air market. Taking advantage of the mess, Iwasa and his gang take hold of goods from the US military, black-market and controlled items in order to become the most powerful group in the Enko area. Iwasa has Gennosuke assassinated but before he dies, he names Shinji Terajima as his successor and makes him swear to carry on the family business and not seek revenge or use violence. Shinji tries to make his family’s marketplace a success, but with constant interruption and attacks from Iwasa’s gang, he can no longer keep his word to his former boss.

Three robbers escape with loot from a heist before one of them kills the others. Their corpses wash up near the aftermath of a maritime calamity, provoking a policeman's interest.

The first film with Tetsuro Tamba as a detective. An exciting drama about the pursuit of a criminal, which takes place in Yokohama. Tamba enthusiastically plays a police inspector who pursues a criminal who kidnapped his sister.

After losing all his money, Kizuka Keita, a seller on the black market, is trying to commit suicide. But he is saved by Morigen, a broker on the azuki beans market. A young man tries to regain his wealth in the bean market.

Japanese action film.

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.

The plot opens with the hero (Tsuruta) leaving prison, having served time through taking the blame for a fellow gang member’s crime. However, his former gang boss seems to have gone to seed, with people now killing each other and dealing in drugs. The hero then teams up with a lone operator (Tamba) who specialises in shaking down gangsters.

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

Ishihama is planning a casino robbery with his wife and mother-in-law. They meet a man named Tsuneda who is planning the same robbery and agree to work together.

Film about the 2-26 Incident.

1962 Japanese movie

After a successful robbery the culprits, from very different backgrounds, at once turn on each other.

Clumsy invaders from Neptune are thwarted by hero Space Chief and a nondescript group of microshort-wearing Japanese kids.

The lives of several Japanese families are shattered as the USA and the USSR move toward war, Japan finds itself caught in the middle, and Tokyo is ultimately evacuated as the two superpowers invoke the 'nuclear option'.

Koharu, a young geisha, is in love with Kenichi, an apprentice carpenter to her father Masagoro. Their love life comes to a sudden halt after an argument between their two fathers. Can their love survive in spite of the bitterness between their two families?