Rentarô Mikuni

The final feature by Hiroshi Teshigahara. A direct sequel to his preceding film, Rikyu (1989). Release: Basara The Princess Goh 1992 JAPANESE ...

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 ...

Blind masseur and master swordsman Zatoichi finds a robbed and fatally wounded pregnant woman, whose baby he delivers before she dies. He takes ...

An old woman has died and her widower with dementia confesses to killing her. After this, the story goes back in time to show the events leading ...

Towards the end of the Second World War, a downed U.S. pilot is captured and imprisoned by rural Japanese villagers, who await official ...

Japanese youngsters enduring hard training in Recruit Camp and then going to Iwo Jima in the last days of World War II. Release: Special Boy ...

Seeking revenge against the guard who tormented him, a young man returns to the island where he was imprisoned in reform school. But his plans ...

In the War’s closing days, when a conscience-driven Japanese soldier fails to get his countrymen to surrender to overwhelming force, he ...

Ise, a successful entrepreneur, accidentally murders his lunatic wife after he is spotted having an affair with his secretary, Harumi. In his ...

The myth of the Sun Goddess who founded Japanese society is seen through the lens of a modern view of history. Release: Himiko 1974 Japanese 720p ...

Based on an actual scandal a decade before (and released during another scandal), the film tells of a scheme to repay a loan shark’s ...

A freestyle biopic of Ikki Kita, the ultranationalist intellectual whose ideas inspired the failed military coup in 1936. Release: Coup dEtat ...

When a married woman has an affair with a young musician, feudal Japanese law requires that both offenders pay with their lives. However, the ...

A young leader of the Yamazaki family of Nagasaki, Takida (Ken Takakura) is an A-bomb survivor. He fiercely battles violent elements in southern ...

The remake of Yoshikawa’s novel continues with the second installment in which Takezo, soon to be Miyamoto Musashi, emerges from the Himeji ...

It is based on the story of The Ballad of Narayama updated to the present day, with the substitution of putting a parent into an old ...

In the retelling of the story of the legendary Japanese swordsman Miyamoto Musashi, the story takes the wanderer into a conflict with a chain and ...

The story opens with Yukiko and her business partner in Moscow searching for Russian items for their store in Tokyo. There they meet a Russian ...

Best-selling novelist Kosaku Igami has made a career out of using his family as fodder for his novels, much to their dismay. When his mother, the ...

A meeting between two traveling gamblers leads to a case of mistaken identity that has deadly consequences. Release: Wind Woman and Road 1958 ...