Jigoku

A group of sinners involved in interconnected tales of murder, revenge, deceit and adultery all...

Profound Desires of the Gods

Tokyo engineer Kariya arrives on a primitive tropical island, where he interacts with the Futori...

Abashiri Prison

Abashiri Prison is located in the coldest place in Japan. Two men, handcuffed together have...

Red Peony Gambler: Second Generation Ceremony

The industrual revolution comes to Japan with the introduction of the railroad system. This led...

13 Assassins

A sadistic Daimyo (feudal lord) rapes a woman and murders both her and her husband, but even...

Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo

With a price on his head, Ichi seeks tranquillity in a favorite village. Since his last visit,...

By a Man's Face Shall You Know Him

Also known as "History of a Man’s Face" and "By a Man's Face Shall You Know Him" . Immigrant...

Dead Angle

Elite college graduates commit perfect financial crimes though loopholes in the law during the...

The Kanto Scarlet Cherry Gang

The Ni Family is the most well know and respected group of firefighters in the Kanto region....

Emperor Meiji and the Great Russo-Japanese War

Meiji Tenno portrays the buildup to the Russo-Japan War. In addition to showing the political...

Tora-san Meets His Lordship

Tora-san befriends the descendant of a feudal lord. The man asks Tora to locate his deceased...

Japan's Top Gangster

A boy born in a poor village in Tokushima spends his days idly until a chance meeting sets him...

Prison Walls of Abashiri, Part 2

Two convicts just released from prison find a green bauble filled with diamonds — and try to...

Prison Walls of Abashiri 3

Upon returning to his hometown of Nagasaki, recently released prisoner Tachibana Shinichi must...

Female Yakuza Tale

Ocho is accidentally captured by a drug trafficking cartel who use Chinese women to smuggle...

Japanese Godfather: Ambition

An ambitious Kansai yakuza don moves in on Tokyo using financial and political tactics, sparking...

Abashiri Prison: Challenge to the Evil

Yukyo-retsuden

A Colt Is My Passport

A gang lord hires Kamimura, a hit man, to take out a rival boss who's gotten greedy.

Poem

The ascetic houseboy of a Japanese lawyer bears witness to the secretive sexual relationship...

Blood of Revenge

Osaka, 1907: Asajiro lives between a rock and a hard place: he has to keep his business clean...

The Viper Brothers: Prison Gang 13

Part 3 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short...

Showdown at Nagasaki

When Keiji Takama returns to Nagasaki, he finds many changes. The rights of the entertainment...

Kanto Street Peddlers

Kokubu Masaru (Bunta Sugawara) is a hard-headed, hot-tempered member of a street vendor clan run...

Emperor Meiji and General Nogi

In January 1904, the situation between Japan and Russia had grown tense. The Emperor Meiji is...

Red Peony Gambler: Flower Cards Game

The third chapter of the ‘Red Peony Gambler’ saga depicts the happiness and sadness of Red Peony...

Modern Lady Gambler

Fujiko wanders aimlessly through the country, seeking vengence on the man she onced loved, who...

The Fort of Death

The second Bounty Hunter film, when master killer Shikoro Ichibei takes up the cause of a group...

Emperor & Empress Meiji and the Sino-Japanese War

Dynamite Don-Don

Yakuza Gang War is at the height in North Kyūshū Area in the summer of 1950, particularly...

Abashiri Prison: Duel in the South

This is the sixth film in the "Abashiri Series," based on an original idea by Hajime Ito, and...

Abashiri Prison: Duel in Hokkaido

Taiko's Rising in the World

Taikoki is a legendary biography of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who rose to the office of taikō. And the...

Judo vs. Karate

A story of friendship between a lone wolf judo expert and a youth.

The Pacific War and the International Military Tribunal

In 1941, overpopulated Japan faces an economic boycott and its armed forces push further to the...

Karuma Tengu: The Fire Festival

The masked avenger Kurama Tengu is linked to a plot to bring down the Tokugawa shogunate, but is...

Chushingura

The vassals of the Asano clan, who surrendered the castle & became wanderers, deceive the enemy...

Decisive Battle at Kuroda Castle

After the massacre of Christians at Shimabara, followers of Amakusa Shiro band together in a...

The Pacific War and Himeyuri Corps

The last fight put up by remaining forces and a special volunteer nursing corps in 1944-5.

Tears of Banishment

Ninkyo with Kôji Tsuruta. An elderly yakuza brother tries to clear an underling’s name.

Gambler's Code - Loyalty Offering

A fairly entertaining yarn told in somewhat broad strokes with Wakayama playing against type as...

Prison Walls of Abashiri 4

A gripping tale of friendship set against the backdrop of Hokkaido. Shinichi sets out to earn a...

Game of Chance 2

Bungo is released from prison to find his son Kenichi in the care of strangers. Teruko, the...

The Executioner II: Karate Inferno

When a priceless jewel owned by rich heiress Sabine is stolen, along with her daughter,...

Vermillion Sword: Scabbard Code Sword Amidst the Swirling Cherry Blossoms

Beginning of the Showa era, Takasaki City in Joshu (Gunma Province). Gambler Inufushi Yoichi...

The Elder Sister

Follows the struggles of a yakuza wife after his husband gets hurt in a knife fight.

The Marked Man

A man from Osaka comes up to Tokyo to fight gangsterism.

Prison Tales

The Bullet and the Horse

A number of recently released prisoners become involved in a racket with a rancher who is a...

East China Sea

Rokurō starts a part-time job on a fishing boat, but the ship has an engine failure in the...

Modern Sorority

Kigeki Gyanburu Hisshôhô

Gale Winds! Tengu Karama

The 40th and final "Tengu Kurama" feature starring Kanjuro Arashi.

Abashiri Prison: Duel in the Snow Country

Based on Ito Hajime's original story, this is the seventh installment in the "Bangaichi" series,...

Zoku seiun yakuza - ikari no otoko

Red Peony Gambler: Oryu's Return

Oryu searches for blind child she left behind and get involved in a Yakuza turf war that takes...

Seventeen Ninja 2: The Great Battle

In a Toei all-star effort, Matsukata Hiroki, Otomo Ryutaro, and Konoe Jushiro combine to create...

Enigmatic Explosion of the Battleship Mutsu

During the naval battle of Midway in WWII, the battleship Mutsu was in its home port in Japan....

Heaven Sent

Sayoko is desperate to bear a child of her own, but her live-in boyfriend Shinsaku strenuously...

Evil Boss vs. Henchmen

A high-ranking yakuza rises to national notoriety.

Chivalrous Pride

Chivalrous Man: Junkyard of Life

End of the Taisho period. In the city of Kiryu, where the wind is constantly blowing, the heads...

Casebooks of Detective Umon: The Incident of the Fawn-Pattern Cloth

Period film about the legendary detective Umon

100 Gamblers

Set in Kyushu during the early Showa period, the son of a boss who is killed after a greedy boss...

The Path of the King

When the aging leader of the yakuza gang Maeda-gumi decides to retire, many of the gang members...

Honno-Ji in Flames

The plot is based on the novel "Akechi Samanosuke no Koi," the final work in a trilogy by...

Yasubei Nakayama

Jidai-geki about the life of Yasubei Nakayama, a famous ronin who did participate in the revenge...

Kurama Tengu: Acrobat in a lion mask

Two child performers lose their money, but are saved by the masked avenger Kurama Tengu. When...

The Third Contest

Mondonosuke, a young sword student, has a bad dream about his sensei being killed in a...

Satsuma-bikyaku

Sunset Over Mount Fuji

Jidai-geki starring Kanjuro Arashi

The Private Police

After the war, Kijima (Bunta Sugawara) returns to Tokyo where he meets Ôba (Noboru Andô), an...

俺は田舎のプレスリー

Red Peony Gambler: Here to Kill You

The seventh chapter of the stunning Hibotan Bakuto series. Many years have passed since Oryu the...

The Frightful Era of Kurama Tengu

The Frightful Era of Kurama Tengu is a 1928 black and white Japanese silent film with benshi...

North Sea Chivalry

Inosuke, a former gangster, and his friends struggle to make a living as simple fishermen in...

影法師捕物帖

Chushingura: The Truth

Lord Asano Takumi-no-Kami Naganori was charged with receiving a group of envoys from the...

Rinchi

Japanese noir.

Genta Shigure

Ryō Hagiwara movie

Conduct Report on Matashiro: The Devil Princess and Winter Rain

Jidai-geki by Nobuo Nakagawa. Most likely a star vehicle for Kanjuro Arashi

Once and For All

Film concerning warring yakuza families.

Once and For All Pt.２

Continuation of the film Once and For All about two yakuza brothers Joji and Goro.

Detective Umon's Diary, Story No. 6

An important silent film survives, Kumahiko Nishina's Umon torimonocho rokuban tegara jinenji...

Queen Bee and College Boy Ryu

Japanese action film.

Kurama Tengu

This is Kanjûrô Arashi's first film with Nikkatsu after his independent production company went...

White-haired Demon

A man dies in an automobile accident and returns as a white-haired demon and seeks revenge on...

鞍馬天狗 天狗廻状

In the final years of the Tokugawa shogunate, in Kyoto, Osan and her companion Yahē were seeking...

Thus the Divine Wind Blows

Set in the late thirteenth century, this film depicts the defense of southern Japan led by the...

Orange Road Express

A travelling group of young people running a pirate radio station from a small truck encounter...

Revenge of Jorurizaka 1: Attack at Onibushi Pass

Casebooks of Dandy Sashichi: Naked Princess and Mysterious Bear Man

This time around, Sashichi is investigating a case of serial murders believed to be perpetrated...

Kurama Tengu

Directed by Daisuke Itô.

Legends of Honor

First ninkyo yakuza picture at Toei directed by Teruo Ishii

Tenpo Suikoden - Otone's Night Fog

Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki

右門捕物帖　片眼狼

Revenge at Jorurizaka 2: Bloody Battle at Dawn

Kurama Tengu

Kurama Tengu is a 1928 black and white Japanese silent film with benshi accompaniment directed...

最後の攘夷党

1945 Japanese movie