Chuzaemon Nishikawa
Шел год-1860. Раздираемая с Востока и Запада, Япония и Династия Токугава на грани краха. Лорд Ли Наосуке, по прозвищу «Красный Дьявол», поставил на трон марионетку, чтобы стать Сегуном. В его оппозиции - Клан Мито. Они планируют его убийство. Среди них - Нииро Цурихиё. Незаконнорожденный сын большого дворянина, Нииро был воспитан в семье торговцев, но несмотря на это он питает амбиции стать самураем. Выдающийся фехтовальщик, социальный изгой, живущий между ссорами и шантажом. Теперь Клан Мито подозревает его в том, что он шпион. Мифуне играет беспринципного человека, жизнь которого превращается в личную трагедию, которая угрожает уничтожить династию.
The film takes place at the junction of the two eras of Meiji and Taisho. Sakata Sankichi, an uneducated zori sandal maker, becomes a professional shogi player through his genius shogi skills and lives a fanatically devoted shogi game supported by the love of his family. This is the 3rd adaptation of Hideji Hojo's famous play.
В этой истории много неожиданных поворотов сюжета и поединков на мечах. После того, как коррумпированные чиновники насилуют девушку, в которую влюблен Маса, он мстит за неё, убивая офицера, в следствии чего становится изгнанником.
Grand Chamberlain
An Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six years in search of spiritual enlightenment. Siddartha (Cojoin Hong) turns his back on the old religion when people are starving needlessly and holy rituals include human sacrifices. During his meditations, he is tempted by erotic dancing women, demons, and the evil machinations of his criminal cousin. Devastate to attain the spiritual perfection and become the Buddha. He travels to convert followers by his kindness and wisdom, gaining a multitude of believers when he stops an elephant from crushing a local priest. Buddha of course goes on to become one of the great religious leaders of the world.
One of Japan's most popular stories is the tale of Kutsukake Tokijiro, a traveling gambler who finds that he must take care of the wife and child of a yakuza he had been forced by the code of the gamblers to fight man to man. In a brilliant performance from super-star Ichikawa Raizo, with strong support from two of the greats from Toho, Shimura Takashi (7 Samurai) and Aratama Michiyo (Sword of Doom) the heartfelt story reaches new heights. Tokijiro, having learned the true nature of the boss to whom he was obligated for having spent a night and eaten at the gang's headquarters takes up arms against them in a running battle fought across the back roads of the entire nation. Another powerful rendition of this superb story, it is not to be missed!
Самурай Рюносукэ Цукуэ — великий мастер меча. Его отец был главой фехтовальной школы, и парень вырос с катаной в руках. Однако с ранних лет Рюносукэ во всём шёл своей собственной дорогой: и в искусстве меча, и в вопросах духа. Его невиданная Безмолвная стойка непобедима, а его душа не признаёт законов человеческой морали.
Несмотря на то, что Ситиноскэ родился бедным и слепым, он с детства имел ярко выраженную склонность к злодеяниям.
The exciting story of Jirocho and his yakuza gang that controlled the area of the Tokaido during the latter days of the samurai era. Awesome fighting from Katsu Shintaro as One-Eyed Ishimatsu highlights this great tale taken from Japanese history!
Wahei Morishima
Kihei Saruya
Matsuyama, Shinto priest
Lord Mito Mitsukuni, the vice-shogun of the whole country, left the family estate and went on a trip to various provinces with his students Sukesaburo Sasaki and Kakunoshin Atsumi. At an inn in Sunagawa, Mitsukuni exposed and punished an evil judge who had fallen in love with a townsman's wife. However, on the night he stayed at Nihonmatsu Castle, Mitsukuni found out that this incident was a performance organized especially for him…
Utaji heard that her ex-lover Seijirou would get married to Ochiyo a daughter of Ise-ya. She murdered Ochiyo and took over the Ise-ya's shop with Hikoroku a head clerk of Ise-ya. Moreover Utaji killed Hikoroku. But...
Suzunosuke faces perhaps his wildest foes. This evil gang is lead by a one-eyed birdman and other demonic creatures.
Film directed by Tadashi Ashihara
История о зарождении конфликта между главными героями: убийстве Рёносукэ самурая Буннодзэ Уцуги, а затем и его жены, после чего брат погибшего, Хёма, становится кровным врагом Рёносукэ.
An early fantasy film starring Tomisaburô Wakayama.
The second film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass.
Drama about a famous one-eyed, one-armed samurai swordsman of the middle of the Tokugawa period by the name of Tange Sazen. By chance, Tange gets an old pot in which the secret of the treasure of 1000000 ryos of gold is hidden. However, a bunch of different people hunt for the pot and Tange will have to apply his phenomenal fencing skills with the sword.
film directed by Tai Katô
Japanese film.
A village struggles to survive when the nearby lake becomes barren of fish.
A 1946 Japanese film directed by Keigo Kimura.
A lowly drunken samurai finds an abandoned baby in the woods and takes it home. A gift from a fox. But there's something special about the boy.
Directed by Daisuke Ito.
A story about Ômura Masujirô
A quintessential example of the period "ghost cat" (bakeneko or kaibyo) movie, this was one of at least six such titles released by the studio Shinko Kinema between 1937-40 featuring Japan's first scream queen, Sumiko Suzuki. Here she plays Mitsue, the possessive onna-kabuki actress betrothed to apprentice shamisen player Seijiro. When one day Okiyo, a beautiful young girl of samurai class, is led to Seijiro's house by his lost cat Kuro, she becomes besotted with him. Dark jealous passions are invoked in Mitsue, which are intensified when Seijiro gifts Okiyo his precious shamisen. The cat is the first to suffer at the end of Mitsue's hairpin, but returns from the grave to assist Okiyo's younger sister Onui avenge her sister's murder.
Munechika's father
Based on Soseki Natsume’s 1908 novel of the same title, Poppy is an ornately complicated story of desire and ambition. Fujio is beautiful, talented, well-heeled, and engaged to Munechika, a rising young diplomat. She has promised him a gold watch, a family heirloom, as an emblem of their engagement. But she falls in love with Ono, a student employed to tutor her in English, who is attracted by her beauty and wealth. Ono is himself bound by an engagement to Sayoko, the daughter of his mentor, Professor Inoue. The self-centered Fujio is ready to forsake everything for Ono, but he is prevailed upon to go ahead with his marriage to Sayoko. Fujio then offers the watch to Munechika who, perceiving Fujio’s true feelings, hurls the watch into the sea.
Adaptation of the novel by Osaragi Jirō. Again scripted by the legendary Yamanaka Sadao
Adaptation of the novel by Osaragi Jirō.
Directed by Daisuke Itō.
A lost film that tells a story of Jirokichi, a notorious thief
Jirokichi the Rat is a notorious thief. While on the run from the law, he discovers an unexpectedly honourable side of himself, and maybe some form of redemption.
A lost film telling a story of Jirokichi the Rat, a notorious thief
Немой фильм в жанре исторического боевика. Продолжение истории, начатой в фильме 1928 года «Судья Оока. Новый вариант».
Hyakusuke Ōnoki
Токидзиро, участвовавший в налёте на дом босса враждебного клана, в схватке убивает Сандзо, защищавшего это поместье. После этого он из жалости будет заботиться о беременной вдове Сандзо, а затем и о её ребенке. Один из редких сохранившихся шедевров немого японского кино.
Silent Japanese film.
