Movies

1949 Japanese movie

Japanese war-era film

Prewar jidaigeki starring Denjiro Okochi

Jidaigeki from 1940

War-time jidaigeki by Eisuke Takizawa.

Japanese film released to commemorate the 7th anniversary of Shintoho's founding.

Adaptation of the novel by Osaragi Jirō. Again scripted by the legendary Yamanaka Sadao

The film recounts the tragedy of a young outlaw. Considered a lost film.

Jesuit priests in Japan during the 17th century are persecuted by the shogunate to for trying to spread Christianity.

Japanese romance film.

A picture-story-show operator, accompanies her son, Akira, who lives apart from her, to a hot-spring medical treatment and spend a moment of brief...

This epic depicts the battle between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. The focus of the story is the struggle by the unit leader in charge of the...

Keita, after his death, was taken to the court of heaven as Defendant No. 1361, where his past was projected. He was formerly a favorite of the...

A typically modern take on the well-known Naniwabushi character (and real life 19th-century gangster) Mori no Ishimatsu, whose proverbial stupidity...

Jirokichi the Rat is a notorious thief. While on the run from the law, he discovers an unexpectedly honorable side of himself, and maybe some form of...

Japanese sports comedy film about kendo.

The legendary ninja Kurama Tengu (Enoken) uses his superhuman powers to help free a band of street urchins from their Fagin-like master. The film's...