Yataro Kurokawa Movies

This subversive period film features a hotheaded young samurai, Kurodo, who threatens to commit harakiri in response to the humiliation meted out to...

Second in the Nage Utasamon series

Umon goes on an investigation to unveil the murderer known as Red Lizard.

Japanese war movie

1949 Japanese movie

Early film by Eiichi Kudô.

A man attacks the shogun, but does not succeed in his assassination attempt. He flees to the mountains and hides in a shed. There he finds an old man...

The story is based on the serial novel by Tsunoda Kikuo.

During the reign of Hidetada, the second shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty, the advisor Okubo Hikozaemon (Ganjiro Nakamura) entrusts the young Takechiyo...

1958 Japanese movie

A tanuki-themed musical.

First in the Nage Utasamon series

Dedication of the Great Buddha is a 1952 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.

film directed by Tai Katô

In the first two films we learn the character's origins, including his childhood and how he learned his fighting skills. Later, he must face his...

Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki

At the beginning of the Meiji era, three brothers of a samurai family each stand up to the times.

Japanese movie