Saitō Dōsan
Oda Nobunaga (Takuya Kimura) and Nohime (Haruka Ayase) were originally married to mend a hostile relationship between neighbouring regions. Unfortunately, they were like oil and water, making for a somewhat unhappy marriage. When Oda’s enemy, Imagawa Yoshimoto, attacks Owari with his vast army, Oda is devastated by the overwhelming gap in military strength. However, Nohime encourages him not to despair and the pair draw up a tactical plan that will allow them to overcome the odds.
Raymond Fuu
세계 유수의 대부호 후우 가문의 당주 레이먼드가 타계했다. 10조 엔으로 불리는 유산을 놓고 브리짓, 크리스토퍼, 앤드류의 삼 남매는 격렬한 설전을 펼치지만, 집사 토니가 상속인으로 발표한 것은 아무도 그 존재를 모르는 혼외 자식인 `미셸`이었다. 전 세계에서 미셸을 자처하는 사기꾼들이 "전설의 섬" 랑카위섬에 집결하는 가운데 다-코, 보쿠짱, 리처드 3명도 후우 가문에 들어와 화려하고 대담하게 콘게임(con game=사기)을 걸지만…
A bruised and battered corpse in Shibuya, Tokyo has the attention of the local cops. A veteran detective is assigned to the case. The last utterance of the victim is one clue that detective Imanishi has to work on. Yet, the case becomes more tangled quickly. Elsewhere, a prodigy named Waga Eiryo is composing an orchestral piece.
Ikuo Yakuyama
오직 실적만을 중요시하는 중견기업 ‘도쿄 켄덴’. 우수한 성적으로 회사의 기대를 한 몸에 받던 신입 야스미는 한량이 되어 만년 계장 신세가 된다. 그런 야스미에게 과중한 업무를 지시한 유능한 영업과장 사노가 좌천되고, 이전에도 그에게 업무를 지시한 모든 직원이 좌천된 사실에 의문을 가진 하라시마 과장이 야스미의 뒷조사를 시작한다. 진실에 다가갈수록 야스미 배후에 있는 상상을 초월한 비밀과 은폐를 발견하게 되는데…
Kentaro Ishibashi (voice)
Monster Strike: The Movie serves as a prequel to the net anime series based on the game of the same name. The anime tells the story of Ren, who returns to his hometown with no memories of having lived there. When a a cell phone repairman installs the Monster Strike app on his phone, Ren finds himself pulled into a real-world version of the game and begins piecing his memories together again.
Raise Max (voice)
세계 정부도 손대지 못하는 절대 성역이자, 밤낮을 가리지 않고 화려한 쇼가 펼쳐지는 세계 최대의 엔터테인먼트 도시 ‘그랑 테소로’. 이곳에 도착한 루피와 밀짚모자 해적단은 ‘그랑 테소로’의 주인이자 ‘골드골드 열매’의 능력자인 ‘길드 테소로’가 준비한 승자와 패자간의 비정한 룰이 존재하는 게임에 참여하게 되는데…. 동료를 위해, 자유를 위해 루피와 밀짚모자 해적단의 운명을 건 베팅이 시작된다!
Shuichi Itami
One evening, a married couple comes to the Itami Law Office. Narumi Suzumura, six months pregnant, and her husband Takuya have come to ask Itami to take the case of Narumi's mother, Kimiko Torii, indicted for the murder of her second husband, company president Takefumi Torii. Kimiko married Takefumi 19 years ago, making him Narumi's stepfather. The couple are questioning whether Kimiko had the intent to kill...
香月玄太郎
Yosuke Misaki used to be a promising prosecutor, but he suddenly quit his job. He begins a new career as a pianist. He knocks on the door of wealthy man Kentaro Katsuki who lives in a peaceful area of Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture. Kentaro Katsuki lives with his housekeeper Michiko Tsuzuruki (Midoriko Kimura). Kentaro allows Yosuke Misaki to stay at his home. Near Kentaro Katsuki's home, lives the Sanada family. At their home, Haruka aspires to become a pianist. One day, a fatal fire breaks out at the Sanada's house. Later, Yosuke helps Haruka to play the piano again.
In 1959, a body of a flight attendant of an international airline is found, strangled. Detective Rokuro Fujisawa takes charge of the investigation with a young detective Ichimura and his investigations lead him to Father Tolbeck as a suspect. But the police are forced to move very discreetly as the time was right after the Second World War, when a sensitive situation that involves Western people and religion is likely to become an international issue. The investigation leads to an unexpected discloser of a shadowy business behind the church that reflects the uncertainty of the time.
Shonosuke Furukehashi (Hiroshi Tamaki) is a young samurai and the second son of Sozaemon (Bunchin Katsura) of Togane Domain, Kazusa Province. Sozaemon serves as an attendant, but one day, he is suddenly suspected of accepting bribes. Forged documents written in handwriting startlingly identical to his offer incontrovertible evidence. Framed for accepting bribes he knows nothing about, Sozaemon commits ritual suicide for his “crime”. Shonosuke’s elder brother Katsunosuke (Satoshi Hashimoto), an assistant instructor at the domain’s training hall, is placed under house arrest. Because of that, Shonosuke leaves for Edo alone in order to clear the name of his beloved father.
Teshigawara Isao
Kazuhiko Kogure, who is a 2nd grade student in middle school, falls off from one of the school's rooftop. There were other male students on the roof when Kazuhiko Kogure fell off. According to the other students there, Kazuhiko Kogure tried to jump to another school building, but missed. Fortunately, Kazuhiko Kogure only fractured his leg and ribs. According to Kazuhiko Kogure's mother Hidemi, the school insists it was students playing around and did not involve bullying. Hidemi though, doesn't believe it, because Kazuhiko Kogure has a fear of heights. Hidemi goes to see attorney Machiko Mayuzumi and Machiko decides to take her case, but she asks for fellow attorney Kensuke Komikado's help. Meanwhile, the school hires attorney Teshigahara Isao.
Monk
“태어나지 않는 편이 좋았을 텐데…” 15세기 중기(무로마치 시대)의 교토는 그야말로 난세. 재해와 전쟁과 기근으로 백성들은 고통받고 하룻밤에도 수많은 목숨이 낙엽처럼 사라지는 시대. 그 고통의 시대 한가운데에서 태어나 어미에게 버려진 한 아이는 인간의 삶을 배우지 못한 채, 인육을 먹으며 짐승처럼 살아간다. 그러던 어느 날 한 법사와의 인연은 아이에게 '아수라'라는 이름을 안긴다. 이후 와카사라는 소녀와 만나면서 아수라는 인간의 삶을 배워간다. 하지만 다시 인간 세상을 덮친 홍수와 기근은 추악한 인간의 본성을 드러내게 하고 아수라는 고통과 분노, 슬픔 속에서 원치 않는 이별을 맞이하게 되는데... 인간이 인간으로 남기 위해 필요한 ‘최소의 것’이란 무엇인가? 지옥 같은 아수라의 삶 속에서 인간이란 존재는 그저 자신이 살아가기 위해 필요한 식량이었다. 그것이 나쁜 것인지조차 모르고, 생존을 위한 본능적인 살인을 하는 것이, 이성을 가진 이들이 하는 살인행위보다 나쁜 것인가? 인간이 인간으로 남기 위해 필요한 최소의 것이란 무엇인가?
Hanazono Shugoro
Ohno plays the role of Tarui Shotaro, an ordinary guy who dreamed of becoming a hero when he was a child, but now gets by as a part-time worker. The unexpected story unfolds when one day, the daughter of a yakuza boss asks him to plan a make-believe kidnapping. Sato Ryuta plays Shotaro's co-worker who helps him with the kidnapping. Kanjiya Shihori plays Satsuki, the eldest daughter of the Hanazono yakuza clan, while Narimiya Hiroki plays Satsuki's college senpai who joined the Hanazono clan after graduation. Takahashi Katsumi plays the head of a rival organization who has fallen in love with Satsuki. Kitaoji Kinya plays Satsuki's father and the head of the Hanazono clan.
Tesshu Yamaoka
This is the true story of the last officially recorded case of adauchi, when a young man avenged the death of his father by brutally killing the murderers in broad daylight. Samurai revenge killings, or adauchi, was considered a rightful and noble act of honor and virtue.But all that changed abruptly on February 7, 1873, when adauchi became prohibited as part of the Meiji Restoration’s goal to Westernize Japan.
立花左近
In the spring of Genroku 14 (1701), Oishi Kuranosuke (Tamura Masakazu), the chief retainer of the Asano family in Ako domain is shocked to learn that his feudal lord, Asano Takumi-no-kami Naganori (Tamayama Tetsuji), had stabbed Kira Kozukenosuke Yoshinaka (Nishida Toshiyuki), the master of ceremonies, at Edo castle. Lord Asano was ordered to commit ritual suicide and the Ako clan abolished. Facing up to the gravity of this unfair ruling, since only one party was being punished instead of both as would be usual, Oishi decides to lead the loyal former retainers in an attack on Lord Kira so that he could take Kira’s head to his lord’s gravesite so that Lord Asano could finally rest in peace.
Mito Domain Samurai Seki Tetsunosuke must pay the consequences for his role in the assassination of Great Elder Ii Naosuke. Based on true events.
Yoshi Ando
대학생, 중년의 실직자, 주부, 기타등등. 일군의 사람들이 시급 좋은 아르바이트를 위해 정체불명의 장소로 모여든다. 열 개의 무기가 주어지고, 살아남는 자, 단 한 명만이 어마어마한 상금을 차지할 것이다. 의 나카다 히데오가 선사하는 가차없는 죽음의 게임. (2011년 제15회 부천국제판타스틱영화제)
Yuichi Makibara
어릴적부터 친구였던 루리가 프로포즈를 받았다는 음성메시지를 듣고 자신의 마음을 전하려던 타케시는 사고로 피아니스트 유우키와 영혼이 합쳐지게 되면서 일어나는 '세상에서 가장 맛있는 사랑 방법'을 모티브로 한 맛으로 기억되는 사랑에 대한 영화
Gengoro
A genius sushi chef travels to New York to battle it out with the local competition there.
Shohei Kazama
A couple died in Lake Tazawa in Akita Prefecture, in an apparent double suicide, the circumstances of which were unclear.
Kin'ya Kitaôji
In 1929 the fossil of a 500,000 year old man is discovered in China. In 1941 the Japanese army confiscates this find, but during the war the remains disappear. Based on these factual events, this movie takes off with a science fiction story involving a space rocket which places a satellite in orbit containing a secret cargo. The satellite crashes on a remote island and footprints are found in the sand leading away from the crash site. A story of how an ancient primitive cave-dwelling family contends with the scientists who want to study them.
오사카 미나미에 거점을 둔 미쿠라파는 작지만 강하고 끈끈한 연대를 가졌다. 이는 병상에 누운 남편을 대신해 조직을 관리하고 일으킨 아내 `무라키 후유`의 공. 조직원들과 그들의 아내들에게도 두루 존경받던 그녀는 때마침 이루어지고 있는 토지 재개발에 편승해 미쿠라파의 내실을 다지고자 하는데, 그 과정에서 이권을 둘러싸고 다른 거대 조직의 노골적인 견제가 끊이지 않는다.
Biopic of Date Masamune
Bored Hatamoto film
Jubei is a Japanese merchant who learns tricks from Western merchants to get ahead in the game.
Chairman of the town
Rokuheita Narumi
Narumi Rokuheita and his wife Noriko spend their lives separated. Soon they start looking for love elsewhere.
Eiji
The story of beautiful Christian nun, Kyoko who is the object of affection for two very different men - one the happy-go-lucky yakuza gangster, Haruhiko who is the next-in-line to takeover the ragtag "Tenryu Gumi" gang and the other bumbling police detective Kumashiro. The Tenryu Gumi is a collection of misfits and other troublemakers but are relatively peaceful due to their Christian beliefs. Their bitter rivals are the more traditional "Kuroiwa Gumi", a much more sadistic and violent group led by godfather Kuroiwa.
The story of beautiful Christian nun, Kyoko who is the object of affection for two very different men - one the happy-go-lucky yakuza gangster, Haruhiko who is the next-in-line to takeover the ragtag "Tenryu Gumi" gang and the other bumbling police detective Kumashiro. The Tenryu Gumi is a collection of misfits and other troublemakers but are relatively peaceful due to their Christian beliefs. Their bitter rivals are the more traditional "Kuroiwa Gumi", a much more sadistic and violent group led by godfather Kuroiwa.
Yumechiyo, a geisha house madam recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, yearns to do something constructive with the little time she has left. Through her responsibility lies in taking care of her girls, she finds purpose in providing a man innocent of a false murder charge and in the process discovers love for the first time in his arms.
Tatsuo
평화롭던 시골 마을에 해양공원 건설이 계획되자 그 이권을 둘러싸고 마을이 동요하면서 벌목꾼들과 어부들의 대립은 점점 강도를 더해가기 시작하는데...
개발을 둘러싼 다툼을 그린 사회파 드라마에서 한 발짝 더 내딛어 자연과 종교에 대한 거대 담론까지를 품고 있는 문제작
토쿄 암흑가의 절대강자였던 이나가와 세이조 본명 이나가와 카쿠지(1914년~2007년)를 모델로 한 실화바탕의 영화. (aleistair님)
Jiro Horikoshi
Two young men are recruited into the Japanese air force just before outbreak of WW2 by the test pilot of Japans new super fighter - the Zero. The movie is told in reverse from the point of one of the young men who don't qualify for the pilot training and instead joins the ground crew. It chronicles the entire history of the famous fighter from the first prototype test flights all through the war.
Kukai
The life and times of Kûkai, a Japanese monk who studies Esoteric Buddhism in the far reaches of India, China and Tibet, then uses their combined influence to establish the Shingon school during the Heian period in early 9th Century AD.
Wataru Mikumo (voice)
때는 198X년 미국은 적국에서 발사되는 전략핵미사일을 대기권 밖에서 격추시킬수 있는 요격용 레이저탑재 위성이 발사됩니다. 그리고, 이 위성을 우주왕복선 알바트로스호가 서포트하였고 여기에는 바트케인 박사와 여동생인 롤러 그리고 일본인 과학자 미쿠모가 탑승하고 있었으며, 위성요격 시험은 성공적으로 수행되었습니다. 실험이 성공하자 핵무기에대한 전략적인 우위의 상실을 우려했던 소련 당국이 이 위성의 개발자인 바트케인 박사를 납치하게 되었고, 박사가 납치되었다는 사실을 알게된 미국은 위성의 기밀누설을 우려하게되어 박사가 소련으로 들어가기전에 조치를 취해야 했는데, 박사를 태우고 소련으로 가고 있던 알파급 잠수함을 잡기위해 핵어뢰를 사용하여 격침시키게 됩니다. 이 일을 계기로 소련에서는 강경파인 브가린 국방장관이 미국이 레이저요격위성을 실용화하기 전에 핵미사일로 수천만명을 날려버리면 미국도 스스로 굴복하게 될것이라고 역설을 하였지만, 온건파 서기장인 오르로후는 이런 강경파의 목소리를 억누르고 있었습니다.
Nobunaga Oda
A woman works as a prostitute and attendant to make a living at a bathhouse. She is athletic and is an avid runner. She has met and adopted a white dog and the two have become inseparable. It is the biggest tragedy and calamity when the dog is found dead, killed, murdered. The woman swears to find justice by finding the murderer and making things right.
Major Tachibana
After a highly successful raid on Singapore Harbour, soldiers of Z Special Unit lead a new expedition in Singapore, with disastrous results.
The film tells the story of a man who was washed ashore on an uninhabited island after a ship wrecked by a storm, and after twelve years, he returned to human society.
The 224-minute compilation edition of Battles Without Honor and Humanity compiles these four movies: Battles Without Honor and Humanity, Deadly Fight in Hiroshima, Proxy War, Police Tactics
A very beautiful Japanese woman is in love with Persian carpets. She is being chased by lecherous Saburi Shin and a handsome young photographer. Lecherous Saburi Shin knows what she wants, and is able to produce it for her.
Ginji Tachibana
Yakuza Gang War is at the height in North Kyūshū Area in the summer of 1950, particularly between the Okagen Group and the rising Hashiden Gang. Now with the mediation/interference of the Americans, they decide to settle it in a peaceful, *democratic* way, that is, to settle it with a baseball game. Now, with its money and power, The Hashiden group soon recruits a group of gamblers known to be good at baseball from the whole country. So, what is the Okagen Gumi gonna do?
Michio Sakata
Kanno is a Yakuza. He had to kill Matsuoka who betrayed their boss. Kanno knew Matsuoka had a 3-year-old daughter named Youko. Before he gave himself to the police, he asked his trusted man to take care of her. While in prison, Kanno kept sending letters to Youko, disguising as an uncle in Brazil. 15 years later, Kanno is released. He is determined to live legitimately, however the Yakuza has not forgotten his wicked deed!
In this crime thriller produced by Toshiro Mifune (who has a supporting role), hard-boiled Shiro Akitsu goes on a relentless search for his abducted 7-year old daughter, with the aid of an Ainu dog summoned by a whistle she gave him.
Captain Kanda
Two infantry regiments of the Imperial Japanese Army—210 men overall—tackled Mt. Hakkoda in the winter of 1902 to prepare for war with Russia.
Frank Yasuda
A Japanese sailor finds a colony of Eskimos in the Arctic and decides to stay with them. He comes off at a certain moment to look for his luck in the gold rush in Alaska. But he does not forget them.
Drama and intrigue about defense contracts and corruption.
A Japanese businessman is sent to Sri Lanka and meets a beautiful Japanese woman with a past. They befriend an old Japanese-Indian widow who has an estranged son in Japan.
Yumeji Takehisa
Based on the life of artist Yumeji Takehisa
Takeshi Kiyomoto
After eight years in prison, Takeshi’s mission is a big heist from his own clan’s gambling parlor.
Yuji Kawamura
Japan, 1948: Hiroki Matsukata stars as a man facing a nine year prison sentence. He incites prisoners of Shimane Prison to the biggest riot in jail history. A fighter by heart, he sees a way out of any situation, but will he survive this, the gutsiest assault ever attempted?
Toei studios last ninkyo eiga of the 70's.
Vice Admiral Takajiro Ohnishi could see that Japan's defeat in WWII was inevitable. He came to realize that the only way to force a negotiated solution was to convince the Americans that invading Japan would cause massive casualties on both sides. The cold logic of suicide attacks, where one man and one plane could kill hundreds, seemed the only solution. In one of the cruel ironies of fate, Ohnishi actually succeeded; he convinced the Americans that invading Japan would be too costly in lives. But what he could not foresee was that America had another way of ending the war.
Tamotsu Matsumura
While Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political party, whose two executives stir up new tensions in their thirst for power.
Captain Sakagami
Tai Kato’s early 20th century set yakuza epic about an ordinary merchant girl (Hiroko Maki) who crosses paths with an assassin (Tetsuya Watari). The encounter sends her to jail as a suspected accomplice. Years later she marries a yakuza boss, whose gang is affiliated with working class people.
Though a farmer and his fellow villagers in this Japanese film resist the effort to turn the unspoiled region in which they live into a land development, they are ultimately unsuccessful.
Shunsuke Godai
Final part of epic drama about war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Godai family through the Sino-Japanese War through the Soviet Union's sudden attack upon Japanese troops at the end of the war.
Shoji Yamanaka
Repeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally finds a home as a Muraoka family hitman and falls in love with boss Muraoka's niece. Meanwhile, the ambitions of mad dog Katsutoshi Otomo draws our series' hero, Shozo Hirono, and the other yakuza into a new round of bloodshed.
The struggles of a low-ranking samurai (Nakamura) coming to terms with the end of the Tokugawa shogunate and the end of Japan's feudal age with the 1868 Restoration.
Soji Okita
Near the end of the nineteenth century, as the balance of power shifts from Shogunate towards the Emperor, Japan restlessly awaits the dawning of a new age. But not all are content...The Shinsengumi, a small army of samurai, farmers and peasants, band together to do battle against the tide of history. Their leader, Isami Kondo is a man who rises from farmer to fighter to head the fierce Shinsengumi brigade. Using a stern hand and a heart of gold, he rallies his men in defense of the tottering Shogunate. But bloodshed and treachery lurk around every corner.
Takeo
Takeo (Kiniya Kitaoji), son of a wealthy car industry executive, is unhappy with his job and goes to Singapore to become a fisherman. At first ridiculed by the local fishermen, he eventually gets their respect but his rebel temper pushes him to find new adventures in Alaska.
Shigeo Ugari
A Yasuzō Masumura film about a love affair starring Ayako Wakao. The literal title is The Two Who Got Wet.
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 custom of the Kyoto Gion Festival, and by doing so, bring together the warring clans and rampaging brigands in peaceful celebration.
Tatsuya Kitakami
A seamstress seeks the love of her life while helping a troubled couple.
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 years of tribulations until he can return.
Sabu, the third brother
Sabu and his pals hold a pauper's funeral for Sabu's mother. His brother Jiro arrives home, fresh out of jail, and Sabu pointedly states that Jiro is not invited. Jiro meanwhile is planning a big job - steal 40 million in cash and drugs, and he invites Sabu and gang to act as decoys, for 50,000 each. The sting is a success, but the double-crossing starts almost immediately. Sabu discovers how little of the take they were promised and hides the stash. Jiro and his slimy partner pressure the kids to fess up. Meanwhile, their respectable elder brother Ichiro is being leaned on by the town's big boss, whose money it was.
Shinji
A tale of two best friends in the WWII era Japan. Takao is a young man enthusiastic about joining the navy to fight for his country. He convinces his best friend Shinji to join him. As it turns out, however, Takao's poor health prevents him from entering the navy while his friend is chosen instead. As time goes by, Takao becomes a painter and changes his mind about the meaningfulness of war and fighting, while his friend goes the opposite path. Meanwhile Takao's sister falls in love with Shinji.
Okeya-no-oni
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!
In this tale of bravery and honor among the roving gamblers of old Japan, the heroic Jirocho, Boss of the Tokaido is called upon to help a young yakuza named Eijiro after he runs afoul of the new samurai officials who have taken over his hometown. Expertly portrayed by Kitaoji Kinya (son of the all-time great star Ichikawa Utaemon), this young man stands up for the townspeople and puts his life on the line. Jirocho, played by superstar Nakamura Kinnosuke, a boss known for his honor and valor soon finds himself involved in the feud which will only end in a brutal showdown.
An exciting historical drama that dynamically depicts the life of Minamoto no Yoshitsune from the period of his stay on Mount Kurama to his reconciliation with his brother Yoritomo.
A lord explores the lives of common people.
Tsukinowa Gentaro
Friendship between good samurais and aborigines in Hokkaido.
Yusaku
Upon his arrival to Dragon Island, ronin Yagi Hanzo, is propositioned by various shady individuals representing rival gangs to lend his services to them. Branded an enemy for his refusal to become involved with either side, he soon finds himself caught up in an intrigue extending beyond petty gang rivalries, involving a plot by Daimyo in Kyoto to overthrow the government.
After their father quarrels with local military men, Anju and Zushio are forced to flee, but they are captured and sold into slavery. When their mother dies, they are sold to Sansho the Bailiff, a cruel man who subjects them to hideous torments. While Anju falls into a lake and is transformed into a swan, Zushio escapes and after being adopted to a nobleman grows to a young man. He will then fight to defeat the evil Dayu and free all the slaves.
The story of two young men whose ambition is to become the personal bodyguards to the Shogun's uncle, Lord Mito Komon. Portrayed by a pair of up and coming stars, Sasaki Sukesaburo (Matsukata), the son of a widower and Atsumi Kakunoshin (Kitaoji), whose mother is a widow find themselves constantly in trouble and are forced to become two of the most powerful fighters in all Japan. The stories about Mito Komon and his travels througout Japan are many, but this is one that had yet to be told. The struggles of Suke-san and Kaku-san faced in order to join the Elder in his quest to fight against injustice and corruption during the samurai era.
A young son of a master of the Kuwana clan gets disowned for his rebellious behavior. After he goes from the mountains to the ocean defeating the evil, he becomes a fine man.
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 can save the shogunate from the dastardly plot to take over the country.
A story of revenge between two samurai families on the Igagoe Road. Araki Mataemon born in the province of Iga. He studied the art of the sword under the Yagyu family. He helped the younger brother of his wife Watanabe Kazuma take revenge on his enemy Kawai Matagoro. Ichikawa Utaemon plays Araki Matemon and his son Kinya Kataoji plays Kazuma.
Master swordsman and loyal vassal Saotome Mondonosuke goes on a mission to find a missing princess.
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.
Yamanaka Shikanoske
An entertaining youth drama, which tells about the struggle of a young swordsman Yamanaka Shikanoske (Kinya Kitaoji) and his friends who resist the tyranny of the Mori clan in a war-torn country during the Sengoku period! The film starred teenage Toei company of that time.
Kirishima Kyoya
A swordsman must foil a minister's sinister plan to assassinate the shogun.
The year is 1805. Napoleon ruled Europe. Ienari is the 11th Tokugawa Shogun. An incident, which was an open official secret, took place on the foothills of Mt. Fuji. Fearing attacks from within and without, the Shogunate planned to build a training castle utilizing the most advanced techniques. Two master castle architects, Sato Kikutaro and Kumai Hakuten, were selected to compete for the honor of building this castle. Lord Mizuno Dewa has even ordered the townspeople to assist both sides with their land surveys and preparations. This leads to fear on the part of farmers that their land will be taken away from them, and sets off a series of events which rock the nation to its very roots. With an all-star cast, this is an important story with relevance to current times. One of Ichikawa Utaemon's finest performances, a true classic!
Minamoto no Yoriie
Adaptation of the novel by Kan Shimozawa.
