Movies

Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overbearing mother and grandmother to give...

Early Japanese three-part samurai / fantasy serial.

On the night of the summer Obon festival, Hagiwara Shinzaburo meets a beautiful courtesan named Otsuyu. Not knowing she's a ghost, he becomes...

Depicting the International Disarmament Conference and the Japanese Navy’s Struggle.

In Kyoto a young kimono maker with traditional ideas gets involved with a married professor.

Fascinated with women from an early age, Yonosuke had his first sexual encounter at the age of seven. From that day on, he recklessly and forwardly...

A young samurai who’s strong in love but weak in compassion, with a string of eccentric antics, diving into the water, wielding his spear, and...

One of Kinugasa's last films--based on the story by Tanizaki Jun'ichirō.

Okoyo, the mistress of Lord Arima, fears that she is being replaced by a younger woman named Otaki. In a fit of jealousy, she kills the younger girl....

A Japanese drama featuring the one-eyed, one-armed swordsman

A seafaring man who hates women and a barmaid who hates men… drawn together and torn apart by a strange twist of fate… a melodrama of...

The tragic, yet exciting story of the friendship between Nakayama Yasubei, a member of the 47 Ronin, and Tange Tenzen, a relative by marriage of the...

A racist sergeant stationed in post-war Japan finds himself softening towards the children and falling for a local woman.

The story of two sisters in post-war Japan. One is a geisha and the other works for the tourist board.

Wandering samurai Nemuri Kyoshiro (Raizô Ichikawa) finds a bulls-eye on his back after befriending the shogunate's tightfisted financial...