Takamaru Sasaki Movies

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...

A once-powerful yakuza clan disbands as a result of a police crackdown, but one small group refuses to bow to police pressure, and launches a...

The Stormy Era of Twenty Years

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

Hibari Misora plays Yoshiko, the popular daughter of a fish market owner. After discovering that she was adopted, she sets out to help her biological...

First movie of the Inu series directed by Tokuzō Tanaka

During the latter part of the 16th Century, Japan's Warring States era was coming to a close. After crushing almost all of his enemies, Date Masamune...

Part of the Queen Bee series.

1962 Japanese movie

Period film about a feudal era judge living in Edo

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

Set during Japan's Bakumatsu period, the film follows Fukuzawa Yukichi, a poor samurai's son who defies societal norms to study Dutch and English....