Movies

A gang of bank robbers plan a big robbery, but they all plot to betray each other after the heist for different reasons.

A war veteran clashes with a mob boss in this crime saga. When Ryuji returns from the war, he finds himself torn by the death of an old friend - the...

First movie of the Inu series directed by Tokuzō Tanaka

Sakata Sankichi, an amateur shogi player living in the slums of Osaka, is so obsessed with the board game that he spends all of his family's money to...

1959 Shintoho adaptation of Kyoka Izumi's novel "A Woman's Pedigree".

When Yakuza decides to take avenge his brother, the war shall begin.

After World War II life in Japan was hard. There was lawlessness, rapine, never enough food or money. One girl, raped by three men, called out the...

The story of five easygoing Yakuza who come together to save the live of a young innocent girl, Oichi, from an evil vassal.

When Japan entered into the great tragedy that was unforgettable, the general general of the history of the Ming Dynasty, hokudai Yamashita, left the...

Three years had passed since Ichiro Takeo left Japan. He was a young physician with a promising future, until his medical error caused the death of a...

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

A 20-year-old drifter and a precocious 16-year-old girl slowly form a bond in a small town haunted by its wartime past.

In 1730, the Tokugawa Shogunate orders the Yagyu Clan to repair a huge shrine. Since it cannot refuse the Shogunate's request, the impoverished Yagyu...

In the early years of the twentieth-century a young gambler returns to his home town where he finds the gang of which he was once a member engaged in...

An action-packed, dramatic gangster film.

Tsukitaro, a young man who comes to Edo, meets a blind girl named Ochiyo. Ochiyo’s father, the grinder Yasujiro, was asked to sharpen a sword...

The Stormy Era of Twenty Years

Ken Takakura's screen debut, following his admission into Toei ranks via the studio's annual New Faces program, came surprisingly enough in this pair...