Ryōsuke Kagawa
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Saga Prefecture, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: October 10, 1896
Age: 128 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: April 17, 1987
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Hotta Hayato
Overview: Jidaigeki film, only a fragment remains of the original film.
Genres: History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1933-04-27
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Lantern Under a Full Moon
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-07-11
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Capone's Younger Brother: Heart and Speculation
Overview: Lesser, but still modestly entertaining sequel. Wakayama is wonderfully bastardly here, but has to do without Chicago bros. Yamashiro & Watanabe and the film is just that much less fun. It's also a little bogged down by an out-of-place environmental message. In return one does get Willie Dorsey (who would go on to lose his balls in The Street Fighter) in a rather big role as Capone's right hand man. There's a legion of other gaijin as well, Osman Yusuf among them of course. The rating could be a notch higher on a good day.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-01-23
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Princess Finds Her Prince
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-10-02
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20 Duels of Young Shingo - Conclusion
Overview: While on his journey through the countryside of Japan, Shingo encounters many people whose lives have been affected by his actions. Though the many duels he fought were intended to bring justice to those who sought to do evil, he is faced with the knowledge that his victories have also caused suffering amont the family members of his victims-leading him to question his life's philosophy. This superb film is the final chapter in this part of Shingo's story. A fitting tribute to his quest to be the supreme swordsman.
Genres: Action Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-07-13
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The Life of Matsu the Untamed
Overview: Matsugoro is a poor rickshaw driver whose animated spirit and optimistic demeanor make him a favorite of the town. Matsu helps an injured boy, Toshio, and is hired by the boy's parents.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1943-10-28
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Children Hand in Hand
Overview: A small-town boy with a learning disability attempts to fit in with his classmates.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1948-03-30
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Scarred Yosaburo
Overview: The film depicts the scarring of Yosaburo at the hands of yakuza thugs who catch him with mistress of the gang boss. Despite the physical and emotional scars he now carries with him, Yosaburo falls for a young noblewoman. The rest of the film follows the two as they fend off attacks from gangs and the police.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-07-10
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Thus the Divine Wind Blows
Overview: Set in the late thirteenth century, this film depicts the defense of southern Japan led by the Kono clan against the Mongol invasion in 1281.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1944-08-11
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Saheiji’s Casebooks: The Purple Hood
Overview: The purple hood reveals the embezzlement of public money by officials. A remake of Masahiro Makino's 1923 film.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-05-10
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Wild Lion
Overview: A gripping historical drama that follows the explosive growth of Katsu Kaishu, the hero of the Meiji era, and the interesting human image of his father, Kokichi, who lived for the common people, his neighbors and his children. A film about paternal and maternal love and conjugal love in the creation of mankind, about the healing power of which laughter and tears have. The film that became the last work of the giant star Tsumasaburo Bando.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-08-12
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Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 3
Overview: The adventures of Aoi Shingo continue. Shingo is finally given permission to officially meet his father, the Shogun. However, his journey is disturbed by those who wish to claim his life. This is the third part of "THE 10 DUELS OF YOUNG SHINGO", following the first 2 parts (which were actually done as one movie). The tension mounts as young Shingo must face obstacles the like of which he had never before seen. And, can he avenge the death of his master? The man to whom he owes everything.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-03-27
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The Funeral
Overview: When Wabisuke's father-in-law unexpectedly dies, the family goes through a series of random events and occurrences as the funeral unfolds over three days in their home.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-11-17
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Professional Killer
Overview: Directed by Mansaku Itami.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1932-06-03
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八幡鳩九郎
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-02-14
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Ooka Seidan: Devil Image
Overview: Magistrate Ooka and a samurai fight against evil forces.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-05-22
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お洒落狂女
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-04-03
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Hebihime sama
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-02-25
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Conduct Report on Matashiro: The Devil Princess and Winter Rain
Overview: Jidai-geki by Nobuo Nakagawa. Most likely a star vehicle for Kanjuro Arashi
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-02-11
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The Flower That Crossed the Mountain
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-09-11
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Glorious Firefighter’s Standard
Overview: Firefighter Sanji learns the secret of his birth.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-01-21
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170 Leagues to Edo
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-07-29
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越後獅子祭
Overview: 1960 version of Lion Festival of Echigo
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-02-26
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Freelance Samurai
Overview: One of Japanese folklore's most popular characters is brought to life on the silver screen in this terrific version of legendary Demon slaying Peach Boy.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-12-15
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Jirocho Fuji 2: The Chivalrous
Overview: The exciting story of Jirocho and his yakuza gang that controlled the area of the Tokaido during the latter days of the samurai era. Awesome fighting from Katsu Shintaro as One-Eyed Ishimatsu highlights this great tale taken from Japanese history!
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-06-01
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The Acrobats of Death
Overview: Saotome, a sword master and guard of the Shogunate, pursues the mystery of a deadly aerial weapon that is responsible for the multiple deaths in town.
Genres: History Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-01-09
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Shunjû ittôryû
Overview: After being expelled from the Chiba Dojo , Hirate Zoshu , along with his acquaintances Tadaki Ganryu and Tamon Jubei, were hired as bodyguards by Sasagawa Shigezo, and became embroiled in a gamblers' feud known as the "Tenpo Suikoden.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1939-06-01
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Cantankerous Edo
Overview: It's fighting fires and swordsmen with a touch of music in this free-for-all of action and excitement combining the talents of Japan's most popular couple... Misora Hibari and Okawa Hashizo. Along with the great Otomo Rytaro as Tatsugoro the fire chief, they keep Edo safe as part of the famed Megumi Fire Squad.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-01-09
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Lady Sen and Hideyori
Overview: From the late 1500's through the founding of the Tokugawa Shogunate many battles were fought as the great warlords vied for power over the nation. Princess Sen, a daughter of Tokugawa Ieyasu, is caught amidst the family feud between the Tokugawa and Toyotomi families. When her father Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu attacks her husband Toyotomi Hideyori's castle, her life takes a sudden turn for the worse. Will she ever find peace in her life again? One of Hibari Misora's most memorable performances, a movie you will never forget!
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-03-25
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Sabakareru Echizen no kami
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-04-06
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Kabe no naka no bijo
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-04-17
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Judge of the Ashuras
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-02-15
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A Man from Akagi
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-10-07
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Song of Love
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-04-09
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Meiji no kyōdai
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1946-01-31
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Trouble Over Swords and Women: A Woman's Mind
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Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-11-16
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Trouble Over Swords and Women: Sword Light and Shooting Star
Overview: film directed by Tai Katô
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-11-30
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Lord Mito 2: The Nation's Vice Shogun
Overview: After settling the matter of shogunal succession, the retired Old Lord of Mito finds himself in a sea of trouble when he gets involved in the succession of the Takamatsu clan. The usurpers try by every means to effect their takeover, even if it leads to blood being spilled. Along with Kaku and Suke, the elder must face the most dangerous time of his life, in a battle against those corrupt individuals who would use any means to further their dastardly conspiracy, regardless of how many lives might be destroyed. The great Misora Hibari gives a bravura performance, as does the rest of this all-star cast. This is another outstanding effort on the part of the Toei Films, blending fact and fiction to bright back Japan’s golden era of the Genroku period.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-07-12
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Love Under the Crucifix
Overview: The basic story in Love under the Crucifix is about Ogin, daughter of a tea master, who are both Christians in feudal Japan. Ogin falls in love with a feudal prince, also a Christian who is already married, and that creates problems. Further, when the Shogun bans Christianity, the situation worsens.
Genres: Romance Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-06-03
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Doburoku no Tatsu
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-04-29
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The Sword of Doom
Overview: Ryunosuke, a gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate rule, has no moral code and kills without remorse. It’s a way of life that leads to madness.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-02-25
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Ippon-gatana dohyo iri
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1931-11-13
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A Chivalrous Spirit
Overview: An all-star cast highlights this Jidai-Geki classic. Set in the samurai era, this is the tale of period Yakuza. One of the real classics in this genre. Jirocho, an honorable and respected gang boss, uncovers a conspiracy organized by his rivals while on a quest to bring justice to three murders. Some of the most famous actors from Toei studios make this a must-see for everyone! Featuring a very young Nakamura Kinnosuke, who went on to become one of Japan's mosted noteworthy actors under the name Yorosuya Kinnosuke. This is one of the best examples his early work.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-01-03
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Conflagration
Overview: Learning of his family's collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the Golden Pavilion, must endure acute psychological distress.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-09-22
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The King
Overview: The film takes place at the junction of the two eras of Meiji and Taisho. Sakata Sankichi, an uneducated zori sandal maker, becomes a professional shogi player through his genius shogi skills and lives a fanatically devoted shogi game supported by the love of his family. This is the 3rd adaptation of Hideji Hojo's famous play.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-11-23
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Yataro's Hat - Comings and Goings
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1932-03-17
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Bored Hatamoto: Mysterious Letter of Challenge
Overview: Bored Hatamoto film #19
Genres: Action History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-12-28
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Samurai Vendetta
Overview: Two amiable samurai wind up on opposite sides of the vendetta between Lord Asano's retainers and the family of Lord Kira that led to the famous revenge of the 47 Ronin.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-11-22
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Tenka taiheiki
Overview: Hiroshi Inagaki's first movie.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1928-06-15
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Hell Worms
Overview: A group of bandits flee to the mountains after killing an evil moneylender. Remake of Hiroshi Inagaki's Jigoku no mushi (1938).
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-12-01
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Kojiki taishō
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-11-28
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Road Warriors
Overview: A dashing edition with fights , love, and laughter, in which the sorrows and joys of the guiltless world are colored by the guiltless travel crow, Ayame 's Gantaro, with the turbulent and exciting Wakizashi Hitoshi .
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-05-17
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White-haired Demon
Overview: A man dies in an automobile accident and returns as a white-haired demon and seeks revenge on his wife and her lover
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-04-11
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Yaji And Kita's Traveling Diary
Overview: A captivating operetta by Masahiro Makino based on Juppensha Ikku's humorous novel "Tōkaidōchū Hizakurige" starring Chiezo Kataoka and Kyoji Sugi.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1938-12-01
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Genta Shigure
Overview: Ryō Hagiwara movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-07-01
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Monsters Catcher Oedo Seven Changes
Overview: Film about Ghost-Cat.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-07-11
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Kurama Tengu
Overview: This is Kanjûrô Arashi's first film with Nikkatsu after his independent production company went bankrupt (many of these independent companies went bankrupt shortly after the transition to sound). As he is mostly famous for his portrait of Kurama tengu (and on the other hand, he's the definitive actor for Kurama Tengu as well), Nikkatsu made another version of Kurama tengu, co-directed by Masahiro Makino & Sadatsugu Matsuda who are both sons of Shozo Makino. Scripted by Yoshitake Hisa, a jidaigeki specialist who later scripted several Toei All-Star Jidaigeki.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1938-03-15
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Taiko's Rising in the World
Overview: Taikoki is a legendary biography of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who rose to the office of taikō. And the story of this film is about the rise to power of Toyotomi Hideyoshi from a farmer's son.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1938-06-17
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Case of a Young Lord 10: The Mystery of the Spider Lady
Overview: Young lord investigates the mysterious death that takes place in the underworld.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-12-23
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Samurai Banners
Overview: Kansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea. He enters the service of Takeda, the lord of Kai domain. He convinces Takeda to kill the lord of neighboring Suwa and take his wife as a concubine. He then convinces the widow, Princess Yu, to accept this arrangement and to bear Takeda a son. He pledges them his life. He then spends years using treachery, poetic sensibility, military and political strategy to expand Takeda's realm, advance the claim of Yu's son as the heir, and prepare for an ultimate battle with the forces of Echigo. Has Kansuke overreached? Are his dreams, blinded by love, too big?
Genres: Action War History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-03-01
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New Tengu from Mount Kurama
Overview: The film is set in Kyoto at the end of the Tokugawa period, when there is a fierce clash between the supporters of the Emperor, who are fighting for the overthrow of the Shogunate, and the Shinsengumi squad, who are chasing them. Suddenly, a mysterious masked warrior appears, on a white horse he is called Tengu from Mount Kurama and he opposes the Shinsengumi.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-09-18
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What Price Love?
Overview: Set in the middle of the Edo period (1603-1867), this tragic love story takes its cue from a celebrated historical case tried by magistrate Tadasuke Ooka, whose shrewd legal decisions became the stuff of legend. Okuma Shirokoya, the daughter of a lumber merchant in Edo (today’s Tokyo), embarked on an affair and was executed after conspiring with her maid to murder her husband. (Source: https://festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/proiezione/shirokoya-komako/)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-09-09
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Oda Nobunaga
Overview: A classic wartime jidaigeki about the life of the famous samurai and first of the "Great Unifiers" of Japan, Oda Nobunaga, with Kataoka Chiezo and Shimura Takashi
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1940-02-05
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武蔵と小次郎
Overview: As the reputation of Sasaki Kojiro, who traveled through various provinces with his long sword seeking duels, began to spread, he was summoned by Lord Hosokawa Sansai upon the recommendation of Kokura clan warrior Iwama Kakubei. However, at this time, due to the proposal by Nagaoka Sado, it was agreed that Kojiro would face Miyamoto Musashi in a duel. If he won, Kojiro would officially become the chief instructor, as he desired. Until then, he had a provisional stipend of 500 koku. Learning that Musashi was in Kyoto, Kojiro set off for the city. En route, he was joined by a woman named Shino, who held a grudge against Musashi.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-10-15
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お役者小僧
Overview: The phantom thief, known as the "Actor Kid", who was creating a stir in the Daimyo's mansion, especially in the inner chambers, was called Inaba Goutaro. He was the adopted son of a samurai, Inaba Buemon. An incident occurred where his foster father collided with the palanquin of the lord's concubine. In the subsequent altercation, Goutaro killed one of the attendants. Taking responsibility for the act, his foster father committed seppuku, and Goutaro was hunted down. Facing death, his foster father revealed to Goutaro that after the death of his biological father, Goutaro's real mother and his younger brother were forcibly made to serve a lord. This revelation ignited Goutaro's determination to infiltrate the Daimyo's mansion to meet his birth mother.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-04-15
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The Brothers who Protect the Mountain
Overview: In the mountainous region of Koshu, Taikahara, there was an intense power struggle between the prominent families, Tamaki and Kakukura. Facing the steward of Kakukura, Kurokawa Senjiro, was Tamaki Daisaburo, who was skilled with a handgun. Daisaburo had granted protection to the charcoal maker, Miyoshi, safeguarding a few mountains passed down from their ancestors. Daisaburo's elder brother, Iori, who had completed his training in Edo, saved Kakukura's only daughter, Koyumi, on his way back home. However, while Daisaburo rushed to Iori's aid after Koyumi was attacked by Kurokawa and his men, their family home was set ablaze.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-10-27
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快盗三人吉三
Overview: On March 11 in the seventh year of Tenpo (1836), a monk named Bennō, who fell in love with a geisha named Oshima, was publicly exposed at Nihonbashi for committing an illicit act with a woman. While this was happening, an extravagant procession led by another monk named Nikkei passed over the bridge. Nikkei, the head of the Kanouin temple, in collusion with Nakano Harima-no-Kami, had schemed to make his younger sister, Miyoshi, the Shogun's mistress and aimed to transform Kanouin into the Shogun's family temple. To fund the renovations, Nikkei accepted bribes from a corrupt merchant named Koya Bunzo.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-04-21
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Beautiful Tengu
Overview: During the tumultuous end of the Tokugawa shogunate, the Tengu Party rose in rebellion in Mito. Friends from their hometown, Tanaka Genzo and Fujita Koshiro, each walked different paths. Koshiro, who upheld the philosophy of "Revere the Emperor, Expel the Barbarians," became a leader of the Tengu Party, taking refuge in the mountains. Genzo, however, did not have any particular ideological stance.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-06-23
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八州遊侠伝 白鷺三味線
Overview: Hatamoto Ooka Gentaro was deeply committed to a future with a beautiful girl named Omachi, a relationship facilitated by his love of the shamisen. Omachi was stalked by a ronin named Akiyama Kanosuke, and at one point, Gentaro and Akiyama dueled at Matanuiyama, but the confrontation was left unresolved when Omachi, sensing urgency, called the authorities. Meanwhile, Gentaro's uncle, Kii-no-kami, concerned about Gentaro's whereabouts, ordered him to investigate a conspiracy by Tachibana Tadama, a tyrannical director of Hachijo who exercised his power oppressively in Shimousa Iioka. Gentaro attempted to leave on a journey with Omachi but was obstructed by his uncle's retainers.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-01-09
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お役者小僧 江戸千両幟
Overview: Okazaki Domain samurai Inaba Gotaro accidentally killed a superior while trying to save his beloved geisha, Ko-en. On the run, they were rescued by the actor Nakamura Utaemon, but Ko-en was taken by the Hatamoto, Ono Issai. Gotaro, who fell off a cliff, was saved by the Dutch-trained doctor, Shibarai Ryokai, and his daughter Oume. While traveling to Edo, they met Utaemon in Mishima, who was suffering from a serious eye disease. Ryokai’s treatment saved Utaemon from blindness, and a strong friendship was formed among the three.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-08-10
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荒木又右衛門
Overview: Watanabe Kazuma and Kawai Matagorō from the Bizen Okayama Ikeda clan were close friends, but they inevitably became enemies after Matagorō killed Kazuma's younger brother, Gentayū, and fled. Seeking assistance, Kazuma asked his brother-in-law, Araki Mataemon, for help, but Mataemon refused, saying that it was against the code for a brother to avenge another brother's death. On the other hand, the lord of the clan, Ikeda Tadao, ordered a search for Matagorō, who was found to be sheltered by the Hatamoto, including Andō Jiemon, in Edo. Tadao was furious but unable to act. Matagorō, in Edo, came to regret his birth as a samurai. He met and fell in love with Okō, a bathhouse maid. As the discord between the Hatamoto and the Ikeda clan deepened, Tadao died of illness. Seizing the opportunity to ease the conflict, the shogunate ordered the Ikeda clan to be succeeded by the young lord Katsugorō and to relocate to the Ikeda clan of Inshū Tottori. Meanwhile, Matagorō was exiled from Edo.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-09-21
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若き日の千葉周作
Overview: Chiba Sōsaku, whose childhood name was Otome, was raised by his father Yukiuemon, the successor of the Hokushin Ittō-ryū style, and his wet nurse in Rikuzen Onikobe, where he early on earned the nickname "Little Tengu of Chiba." One day, Otome heard a rumor that Arao Miyauchi, who once was an internal student at the Chiba family but now ran his own dojo in Onikobe, was spreading false rumors out of resentment for not inheriting the Chiba house—a situation that led to his mother's suicide and his father's abandonment of the sword to become a doctor. Enraged, Otome stormed into the Arao dojo only to be captured and publicly humiliated at Onikobe Pass. However, in his heart, Miyauchi hoped to marry his daughter Nanae to Otome and have him inherit the Chiba family.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-10-04
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Ejima and Ikushima
Overview: This period film is inspired by one of the most notorious scandals to have taken place in Edo-period Japan. The heroine, Ejima, was a lady of the Ooku, the harem of Edo Castle in which the Shogun’s mother, wife and concubines resided, forbidden from contact with any other man except in the presence of the Shogun. The institution played a key role in the Byzantine world of Japanese court politics during the Edo era. In 1714, Lady Ejima was sent to pay her respects at a Buddhist temple in the city, and chose to pay an unauthorised visit to the kabuki theatre – a violation of protocol that was to have tragic consequences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-10-30
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駿河遊侠傳 賭場荒し
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-06-06
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Mito Kōmon's Rambling Journey: The Sword of the Soaring Dragon
Overview: Adaptation of Mito Kōmon.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-08-03
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Izayoi kaidō
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-12-14
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Shogun's Holiday
Overview: During the reign of Hidetada, the second shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty, the advisor Okubo Hikozaemon (Ganjiro Nakamura) entrusts the young Takechiyo (Hiroshi Kawaguchi) to the fishmonger Isshin Tasuke (Kazuo Hasegawa) to help him understand the world. Tasuke, who does not know that Takechiyo is the shogun's heir, trains him harshly. Tasuke's wife Naka (Michiko Ai) is concerned about his harsh teaching style, but Takechiyo gains strength day by day and adapts to his new life. Soon, Takechiyo begins secretly talking about love with a city girl named Otoyo (Hitomi Nozoe), but...
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-02-12
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Kaiketsu kuro zukin
Overview: First film of the The Black Hooded Man series.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-11-29
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大当り男一代
Overview: Shinzō, the heir of the prominent Edo lumber dealer Yamashiroya, left home when his stubborn father, Chōzaemon, dismissed his lover, the maid Oyasu. Shinzō and Oyasu set up a household near a soba shop in Fukagawa, but Shinzō struggled financially, turning to gambling and fighting, while Oyasu worked as a tea server in a theater, constantly harassed by a small-time gangster, Rikichi, for cigarette money. The only ones concerned about Shinzō and Oyasu were Shinzō’s sister, Omitu, and her dance teacher, Oyoshi. Later, Shinzō managed to get a job at another lumber dealer, but after a conflict with the detective Hansuke, who was also infatuated with Oyasu, Shinzō accidentally dropped lumber into the river and was fired. Unaware that Oyasu had borrowed money from a bar to repay the lumber dealer, Shinzō left to earn money in the Mito clan's crew quarters and ended up rescuing Rikichi from a dice game trouble.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-01-22
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のんき侍大暴れ
Overview: In the mid-Tokugawa period, a conflict arose over the "Seiryū Himon," a secret document left by the former shogun Iesai, bequeathing the eighth shogunate to young Lord Manguro of Owari domain. This document became the center of a struggle between the current shogun, Yoshimune, and Manguro. Iida Daisuke, a member of the shogunate's secret intelligence group, the Kurokuwa Group, stole the document from Owari but was killed by Manguro's men. The document then fell into the hands of Yozakura Ogin, who had pledged her life to Daisuke.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-07-13
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Flowers on the Trail
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-01-29
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The Sun
Overview: Adaptation of the Riichi Yokomitsu novel.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-11-18
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花吹雪男祭り
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-11-29
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風来物語 あばれ飛車
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-09-28
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風来物語任侠篇
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-10-28
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The Kuroda Affair
Overview: This adaptation of a Hideji Hojo novel, about the historical uprising of the Kuroda clan in 1633, is told through the eyes of retainer, Daizen. As his clan’s new leader, Tadayuki, becomes increasingly militant in his opposition to the Tokugawa shogunate, Daizen is forced to reconcile his loyalty to the clan with his loyalty to Tadayuki, who seems dead set on entangling the clan in destructive conflict. The Kuroda Affair’s mise-en-scène is said to have influenced future Toei director Eiichi Kudo. The film also features two of the greatest stars of Japanese period cinema, Chiezo Kataoka and Ryutaro Otomo.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-01-08
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Jigoku bana
Overview: Period drama based on the novel by Saisei Murō.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-06-25
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The Skull Coin
Overview: “Dokuro sen” (The Skull Coin) is the first film adaptation of the popular novel by Kikuo Sumita. The story evolves around the seven cursed coins (the Skull Coin) that are supposed to reveal the secrets of the hidden Tokugawa treasure.
Genres: History Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1938-01-01
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Ancient Coins
Overview: This 1956 adaptation of the novel with the same title puts more focus on the characters and their interactions than the previous version.
Genres: History Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-08-29
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Kirimaru Kirigakure
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Genres: Drama Action History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-05-03
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Epic Crash
Overview: Utaemon Ichikawa plays the role of Hikoshiro Navate, who has a strong sense of justice and opposes power and tyranny with his will and spirit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-09-23
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一本刀土俵入
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-06-29
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The Further Adventures of Genta
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-06-07
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Tekka Wakashū
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-09-30
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Miyamoto Musashi
Overview: Silent jidaigeki film
Genres: History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1929-10-17
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The Revenge of Yukinojo, Part 1: Revenge and Love
Overview: The first part of an entertaining historical drama depicting the eventful story of the revenge of an actor with a strange fate, with a variety of characters and exciting developments.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-03-31
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The Grand Master
Overview: Shogi, a Japanese form of chess, is a game that requires skill and determination. When poor sandal-maker Sakata decides to pursue his dream of becoming the Shogi Grand Master Champion, everything is at stake – including his family. What will it cost for Sakata to follow his passion?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1948-10-18
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The Kingdom of Jirocho 1
Overview: The tale of real-life Yakuza boss Shimizu Jirocho is told from his earliest beginnings as a gambler on the road as he forms his gang and sets out on the path to fame and fortune. One of the smartest and strongest of all the gang bosses, he went on to survive the end of the samurai era and become a successful businessman. But first, he must survive against all odds in order to build his reputation and develop his strength. Powerful portrayals of the group are led by the great Tsuruta Koji with help from the likes of Matsukata Hiroki.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-10-19
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The Kingdom of Jirocho 3
Overview: The third part of the story about feudal boss Jirocho and his underlings.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-02-08
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Kojiki Taishô
Overview: Gotō Matabei is the most able and fierce samurai of the Kuroda clan. However, he gradually dislikes the ruthless personality of Kuroda Nagamasa and leaves the clan. Seven years later, he joins Toyotomi Hideyori's army. Filmed in 1945 and released in 1952.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-04-03
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Tabiwa Oiroke
Overview: Will the assassin take my life or will a beautiful woman take my chastity? Or will a beautiful woman take your chastity? On the Tokaido Highway of Flowers, a beautiful swordsman is in peril! Tokaido is a journey of women's peril! Pink Kumudo no Kenjidoshu! A swarm of beautiful women chases after him! The forest of white blades that ambushes! Tokaido is in full bloom!
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-04-26
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鍔鳴浪人
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-02-18
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Shinran, Part II
Overview: Continuation of the biographical film about the monk Shinran, based on the novel by Eiji Yoshikawa. Shinran, born of the fading aristocratic class, was placed in a monastary on Mount Hiei when still a child. He did not come down for twenty years, when his wanderings begin as he spreads his ideas for achieving enlightenment through the Pure Land sutra. Because his teachings contradict the powerful Tendai sect, he comes to grief with the government, his followers persecuted, himself exiled to far coastal Echigo where he married & began raising a family but soonafter was wandering & teaching again. He lived to be ninety.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-09-27
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Jirocho’s Days of Youth: The Youngest Boss in the Tokai Region
Overview: He was married to his lover's butterfly and started a new residence. But good things do not last. In his uncle, Uzaemon in Kawashima, Yoshiji Akaji, Yoshimoto's lender, and Kanehira Akagi, the older brother of the former loan of Mishima, played a challenge. It is said to open the ladies' room to the settlement of Wada island. Although Jiro headed to Shigetsugu for arbitration, he was forced to surrender. In such a case, Jiro became chased by Kinpei and others.
Genres: Drama Crime History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-06-21
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The Revenge of Yukinojo, Part 2: Dance of Revenge
Overview: The second part of an entertaining historical drama depicting the eventful story of the revenge of an actor with a strange fate, with a variety of characters and exciting developments.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-04-07
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The Revenge of Yukinojo, Part 3: Sword of Revenge
Overview: The final, third part of an entertaining historical drama depicting the eventful story of the revenge of an actor with a strange fate, with a variety of characters and exciting developments.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-04-20
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Akagaki Genzo
Overview: Forty-seven Ronin of the Ako clan are waiting for the right moment to avenge the insult and death of their master. The film tells the story of one of them named Akagaki Genzo.
Genres: History Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1938-11-17
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Echo of Love
Overview: A man is brutally murdered and his famed shamisen (a three-stringed musical instrument) called the "Yamabiko" stolen. Prince Kogenta swears to avenge his father-in-law's death and retrieve the family heirloom.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-07-14
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Aoi Secret Book
Overview: A Golden Age drama depicting the exploits of passionate patriot Uotaro Toge in the midst of a mysterious standoff over the Secret Book of Aoi, which will determine the rise or fall of the 350,000-koku Mito clan, and showcasing swashbuckling swordsmanship.
Genres: Drama Thriller History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-03-25
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The Duel at the Satta Pass
Overview: A variety of characters, including ninja Noto, a swordsman disguised as a komuso monk, and a young samurai chasing them, participate in a chaotic bloody battle for 4,000 gold coins that were stolen from Nijo Castle.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-12-16
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A contest worth a thousand ryo: In search of a bride
Overview: A village samurai with money, power and great masculinity goes to the flourishing city of Edo to have some fun and practice. And here he is attacked by a beautiful thief... A light comedy historical drama.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-10-16
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Lord Mito: All Star Version
Overview: In 1691 a terrible fire broke out in Denmacho, Yotsuya, burning down the towns around it, up to the shores of Shibaura. A month and a half later, another fire broke out, this time in Komagome, burning down the two gates of Asakusa and Sujikai, and continuing on into the night. As the government Elders consider evidence that these fires were arson, a fire breaks out in Hirakawa-cho, outside of Hanzo Gate. Nishonmaru catches on fire and burns down completely. When this rash of fires even strikes Kyoto, the task of finding who’s behind the arson, and stopping them falls to the Shogun’s uncle, the Elder Lord of Mito. Together with his trusted bodyguards, Kaku and Suke, the trio set of to save Japan from this scourge of evil. Featuring virtually all of their most famous stars, this is the best film in the Toei series about Mito Komon, one of Japan’s most popular historical figures who traveled through the country incognito to check on the people and fight injustice.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-08-07
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Ghost Ship Part 1
Overview: As Part I opens, Jubei (Denjiro Okochi), the best of sea skippers, is unable to overcome the stormy seas of Luzon. All hands on board the Kannonmaru were lost except for Shinkei, who alone made his way to land & eventually home to inform his grandson Jiromaru (Kinnosuke Nakamura) that his father Jubei met with disaster. Young Jiromaru tells his grandfather that he doesn't want to be a skipper like his father, but wants to go to Kyoto and become a samurai…
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-09-23
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Maboroshijō dainiwa shi no senpū
Overview: The undercover agent Tsukinosuke Kigurumi successfully escapes with Kirisaku, who possesses the coveted Shinshu Mountain map targeted by the phantom gang, but loses the key to unlocking it. The one who picks up the key is Osumi, a female courier. (Existing version. Please excuse any deterioration in image quality due to original conditions.)
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1940-11-01
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Maboroshijō daiichiwa Hida no uzushio
Overview: Mt. Norikura's natural fortress, the phantom castle. A white-clad iron mask, offering prayers to the eerie triple-faced deity of the Sennjogadake Rocks - the lord of the phantom castle, scheming to overthrow the Tokugawa shogunate that destroyed his lord. Sent by the shogunate to infiltrate Hida, Kigurumi Tsukinosuke's cover is blown... (Existing version. Please excuse any deterioration in image quality due to original conditions.)
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1940-10-10
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Phantom Castle
Overview: Early Japanese three-part samurai / fantasy serial.
Genres: Action History Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1940-10-10
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The Gay Masquerade
Overview: The film won 1959 Blue Ribbon Awards for best actor Raizo Ichikawa and for best cinematography Kazuo Miyagawa. The film also won 1959 Kinema Junpo Award for best actor Raizo Ichikawa.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-11-29
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Ikeru isu
Overview: 1945 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1945-05-17
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The Coin Thrower Zenigata
Overview: The film tells about a young detective Zenigata Heiji who successfully solves a disgusting and unusual case involving the manufacture of counterfeit money.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-10-13
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Lord Nobunaga's Early Days
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-03-17
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東海水滸伝
Overview: 1945 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1945-07-12
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Hana no yukyo-den
Overview: 1958 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-08-31
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Sansho the Bailiff
Overview: In medieval Japan, a woman and her children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was exiled years earlier.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-03-31
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The Black Hooded Man 4
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-10-02
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Kaidan Oiwa Yakusha
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Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1938-07-21
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Gate of Hell
Overview: Japan, 1159. Moritō, a brave samurai, performs a heroic act by rescuing the lovely Kesa during a violent uprising. Moritō falls in love with her, but becomes distraught when he finds out that she is married.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-10-30
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壮士劇場
Overview: 1947 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1947-05-06
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Yagyu Chronicles 9: Assassin's Sword
Overview: The Yagyu Family have been teaching the Shinkage style of fencing for generations. Now a new fencing school has opened in Edo, claiming to be the true Shinkage style. Yagyu Jubei faces his biggest challenge yet when the master of the new school claims he is the legitimate successor of Shinkage and tries to take the Yagyu's political power.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-10-14
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The Ghost Cat of Ouma Crossing
Overview: A kabuki actress is murdered. Her pet cat laps its mistress's blood and becomes a demon possessed by the vengeful murder victim.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-12-29
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Miyamoto musashi Ichijōji kettō
Overview: 1942 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1942-03-25
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Onatsu and Seijuro
Overview: Based on the popular story of the tragic lovers, Onatsu and Seijuro.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-11-01
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Secret of Naruto
Overview: From the pen of Yoshikawa Eiji comes this exciting story. The Naruto Strait separates Tokushima from the islands of Awaji and Honshu. On Tokushima the mad lord dreams of conquest and forges a bloody revolt against the Tokugawa shogunate. A mysterious swordsman named Noriyuki Gennojo has crossed Naruto’s waters to uncover the Awa clan’s secrets. He puts his life on the line after finding a testament of Awa’s secrets, written in blood by a dying man. Joining Noriyuki are a female ninja who loves him, and the beautiful daughter of an enemy who’s sworn to kill him. Awa’s defenders willl stop at nothing to prevent the blood-soaked letter from reaching the shogun.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-09-29
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Samurai Hawk
Overview: 1716, Yoshimune becomes the 8th Shogun as high Shogunate officials are attacked. While the government tries to keep these incidents under wraps, they must take any means possible to get to the bottom of this mystery and find out who is behind them.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-03-05
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The Conspirator
Overview: Young lord Saburo Nobuyasu struggles to find comfort in life. His arranged marriage to Tokuhime, daughter of one-time family enemy Oda Nobunaga, provides little happiness. His manipulative mother adds further complications through her constant interference and attempts at defeating the Nobunaga family.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-11-08
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No Stronger Swords
Overview: Featuring some of the finest swordsmen ever to grace the silver screen, this Toei classic tells the story of a battle between the evil sword style called ”Otonashi” (The Silent Form) and the proper way of swordsmanship as promoted by such historical stalwarts as Shimada Toranosuke, and the mysterious Honda Sakon, who face off against a group masquerading as the lord of Mito and his traveling bodyguards Suke-san and Kaku-san. The plot thickens as their leader unveils his secret plan to disrupt the stability of the nation. It is all in the name of swordsmanship, and as the title implies there are no stronger swordsmen!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-05-05
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Shimizu Port of Chivalry
Overview: An all-star cast highlights this Jidai-Geki classic. Set in the samurai era, this is the tale of period Yakuza. One of the real classics in this genre. In this dramatic portrayal of the real-life gambling boss Jirocho, a good-hearted and honest boss sets out to take revenge for a fellow boss. At the same time, the other local bosses, in a bid to increase their own power, plot to dispose of Jirocho. Starring Kataoka Chiezo in one of his signature roles, this is an excellent portrayal of a figure who is not well known outside of Japan. Co-starring Nakamura Kinnosuke, this exciting tale of period yakuza brings history to life.
Genres: Drama Crime History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-01-03
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Singing Lovebirds
Overview: An umbrella maker with a shopping addiction finds himself in dire straits when his debts force him to consider selling his attractive, desirable daughter to a suitor she doesn't love.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1939-12-14
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A Martial Crowd
Overview: As a result of a superstitious belief that twins bring bad luck to the family, newborn twin princesses are separated. Yukihime, who was sent away to be raised by a yakuza family in Edo, returns home after many years to settle an old score.
Genres: Action Drama Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-06-03
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Seven from Edo
Overview: When Katsukawa, a low ranking vassal, learns that his greedy superior, Tatewaki, has hatched a plan to expand his territory, he and his comrades decide to take matters into their own hands. Lots of action in this all-star production from Toei Films, the foremost studio during that era. As with so many of their films, this is highly entertaining, with lots of plot twists and exciting swordplay
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-04-30
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Chikamatsu's Love in Osaka
Overview: The adopted son of an Osaka courier falls in love with a prostitute and, discovering that she is about to be purchased by a client, steals money from his employer to redeem her. Hunted criminals, the two young lovers take flight to Yamato, but, as in Chikamatsu's other domestic tragedies of love and duty (known as sewamono), they must be pursued and their passion destroyed by death. Favourite Uchida themes, such as the indenturing of a prostitute , and his characteristic emphasis on performance and theatrical artifice re-emerge here; but the daring device of having Chikamatsu appear as a character - not unlike having Shakespeare interpolated into a film adaptation of one of his plays - is just one of many surprises this remarkable film holds. “Extraordinary” (Donald Richie).
Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-09-13
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Yagyu Military Art: Jubei's Redemption
Overview: In the fifth installment, Yagyu Jubei must prove the innocence of his family who is suspected of conspiring to take Shogun's life.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-02-23
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Story of a Beloved Wife
Overview: Story of a Beloved Wife is an autobiographical work based on Shindo's first marriage. Jūkichi Uno stars as a struggling screenwriter, and Nobuko Otowa stars as the wife who supports him through his early struggles.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-09-07
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The Day the Sun Rose
Overview: Shinkichi, a peasant employed as a cloth-dyer, has a dream: in the midst of the civil war which ravages Japan, he hopes to revive the long-banned custom of the Kyoto Gion Festival, and by doing so, bring together the warring clans and rampaging brigands in peaceful celebration.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-11-23
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Claws of Iron
Overview: During the war a man is bitten by a creature which looks like a cross between a bear and an ape in the jungle. Later he starts to transform to a monster like creature who kills with his claw like fingers.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-02-24
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I Saw a Phantom Fish
Overview: A village struggles to survive when the nearby lake becomes barren of fish.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-05-06
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Bored Hatamoto: House of Skulls
Overview: Bored Hatamoto movie #15
Genres: Action History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-01-03
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Bored Hatamoto: Mysterious Crimson Tower
Overview: Bored Hatamoto film #21
Genres: Action History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-01-15
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Swordsman of the Two Sword Style
Overview: The story of Japan’s greatest warrior, Miyamoto Musashi, after his historic duel with Sasaki Kojiro on Ganryu Island.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-03-01
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Young Swordsman
Overview: This Japanese action-adventure is set in the 17th century when all forms of swordplay were banned. One fighter, an excellent swordsman believes the law is unfair. His brother keeps his opinions about the law to himself. The swordsman vents his frustration by cutting off the thumbs of an enemy. The fighter is then banished. To live, he becomes a thief. To restore the family's lost honor, the other brother is forced to challenge the fighter to a duel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-08-31
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Miyamoto Musashi: Birth of Two Sword Style
Overview: In the third installment of Yoshikawa's novel Musashi, things continue from the 2nd film at the end of battle, where Miyamoto continues on a mission of learning; with the introduction of his arch-rival Sasaki Kojiro; and lastly the large cast of characters rendezvouses for a fateful finale.
Genres: Action Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-08-14
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Sword for Hire
Overview: Soldiers Hayate and Yaheiji secretly escape from their besieged castle. Hayate has left behind his lover, Kano. On his way, Hayate is wounded and cared for by O’Ryo, who falls in love with him. But when Hayate accidentally kills her caretaker, he flees, with O’Ryo in pursuit. Subsequently, Hayate's comrade Yaheiji falls in love with Oryo. Kano, the lover left behind by Hayate, believes him dead, and becomes involved with another soldier, Jurota. When Jurota defects to the opposing army, he takes Kano with him. A double set of love triangles has developed, wherein each man and each woman loves one and is loved by another. Finally only combat and self-sacrifice can untangle the weave.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-05-22
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Hidden Story of the Yagyu Clan
Overview: It is brother against brother in this tale of love and betrayal within the famed Yagyu clan. In one of their earliest films together, superstars Ichikawa Raizo and Katsu Shintaro are magnificent as the two finest young swordsmen in the clan. As they vie for the hand of a beautiful woman their loyalty comes into question during an attack on their lord. When one of them masters the secret technique taught to him by Miyamoto Musashi, it leads to bloody violence that can tear the clan apart! Filled with superb swordplay this rare classic is not to be missed!
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-02-26
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Yagyu Secret Scrolls
Overview: In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which, if revealed, would cause revolution and disaster for the clan. The information is divided among the three scrolls, all of which must be possessed for the secrets to be understood. When Princess Yuhime steals the scrolls, Tasaburo, a samurai with magical powers, and his brother Senshiro are sent to retrieve them.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-04-14
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Jirocho Fuji
Overview: Legendary yakuza Shimizu Jirocho and his 28 henchmen travel the unruly path from a 'Fire Festival' in Akiba to a decisive battle by the Fujigawa.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-06-03
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Banquet Under the Midnight Sun
Overview: In old Edo, Kakunojo (Chiezo), a dandy about town, falls in love with Oichi (Isuzu Yamada), whose merchant family is much beyond Kakunojo's status. He nevertheless pursues her until her initial disgust breaks down into fondness, then romantic feelings, inducing her to abandon her fiance on their wedding day.
Genres: Action Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1932-10-13
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The Elegant Swordsman
Overview: This film tells the story of a ronin's search for his parents, but primarily is a group portrait of life in a Tokugawa-era tenement. Considered a lost film.
Genres: History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1934-03-01
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Ishimatsu from the Forest
Overview: The film recounts the tragedy of a young outlaw. Considered a lost film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-03-18
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Festival Across the Sea
Overview: There is an inn named Asano Ya in the port town, and a beautiful woman works there. Every year, during a local festival, travelling artists and teachers gather from all over the country, including sesame oil sellers and organ grinders. The day before the festival, trouble arises with some horses.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1941-05-04
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Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
Overview: After a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he recounts his gruesome family history which saw generations of his ancestors suffer and sacrifice themselves for the sake of their cruel lords.
Genres: History Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-04-28
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Daredevil in the Castle
Overview: During the raging war between the Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans, the swordsman Mohei (whose family has been completely decimated) is recruited by Toyotomi to overcome the seat of power, Osaka Castle. Mohei's daredevil skills will be put to severe tests.
Genres: History War Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-03
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Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights
Overview: The remake of Yoshikawa's novel continues with the second installment in which Takezo, soon to be Miyamoto Musashi, emerges from the Himeji Castle after three years of intense contemplation and philosophical study and starting on his epic quest to complete his skill in the Way.
Genres: Action Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-11-17
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13 Assassins
Overview: A sadistic Daimyo (feudal lord) rapes a woman and murders both her and her husband, but even when one of his own vassals commits suicide to bring attention to the crime, the matter is quickly hushed up. Not only will there be no punishment, but because the Daimyo is the Shogun's younger brother, he will soon be appointed to a high political position from which he could wreak even more havoc. Convinced that the fate of the Shogunate hangs in the balance, a plot is hatched to assassinate the Daimyo. The two most brilliant strategic minds of their generation find themselves pitted against each other; one is tasked to defend a man he despises, and has a small army at his disposal. The other is given a suicide mission, and has 12 brave men. They are the 13 Assassins.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-12-07
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Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijo Temple
Overview: In the fourth installment, Musashi's potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of the story at the oddest and most coincidental moments. As his great love Otsu has succumbed to madness. Musashi then sets off to beat the functionaries of a treacherous clan in an arranged duel. 73 against one. Boastful Kojiro watches, secure in the knowledge that only he is a worthy opponent.
Genres: Action Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Tales of Young Genji Kuro 3
Overview: In the third, and final chapter of this epic tale, handsome swordsman Genji helps a vulnerable princess who is in search of a missing scroll that belongs to the Shogun. This is one of the most highly regarded trilogies featuring a youthful Nakamura Kinnosuke in one of his best roles. This was Kinnosuke at the height of his career, with charm, honor and a vicious sword. If you enjoyed the first two films in the series, you can't miss the exciting conclusion. Even without know-ledge of the first two films, this movie stands on its own with great action throughout!
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-03-07
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Kojiro
Overview: Sasaki Kojiro tells the story of the genius who staked his love, glory, and life on a duel with the supreme master of the sword, Miyamoto Musashi (Tatsuya Nakadai). Oscar winning Hiroshi Inagaki directs this epic motion picture based on Genzo Murakami’s fascinating story. Despite his humble birth, the orphan Sasaki Kojiro (Onoe Kikunosuke) is determined to become the foremost swordsman in all Japan, a title that traditionally belongs to a nobleman. At fencing school, young Kojiro receives the contempt of his classmates because of his superior swordsmanship. When rumors of the upcoming civil war between Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans spread, Kojiro leaves the school and sets out, seizing every opportunity to realize his dream.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-04-01
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Snake Princess: Oshima and Sentaro
Overview: Young Sentaro struggles to avenge the murder of his younger sister Osuga and their father.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-09-18
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The Yagyu Military Art: Yagyu List
Overview: When the country is in peril, Lord Yagyu Tajima summons his son Yagyu Jubei to retrieve the mystical Yagyu Scroll in order to save all of Japan. This time, Jubei must stop the evil plot of Lord Hayato-no-sho, who secretly plans on overthrowing the Shogunate. This is the most exciting film in the long-running series about one of the greatest swordsmen in Japanese history. Konoe Jushiro gives one of his finest performances in this classic tale.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-05-25
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Case of Umon: The Nanbanzame Murders
Overview: The serial killing of a samurai each night by strangulation at various temples confounds investigators and brings a chill to the residents of Edo. With the capital on edge, master crimefighter Kondo Umon is brought in to try and solve the case. His illustrious career aside, Umon must risk his own life, time and time again in order to bring the culprit to justice. This mystery will keep you guessing until the exciting climax. Umon has a flair for the dramatic and will hopefully solve the case before more innocent victims have their lives claimed!
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-15
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Red Peony Gambler: Second Generation Ceremony
Overview: The industrual revolution comes to Japan with the introduction of the railroad system. This led to clashes between boatmen, who livihoods are threatened, and the railroad construction workers. Oryu the Red Peony returns to her home in Kumamoto to accept her position as second generation leader of the Yano Family. But the ceremony is interrupted by fighting between local boatmen and railroad works. And it seems a rival family is pulling the strings behind the clashes.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-04-10
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Code Between Brothers
Overview: Famous enka singer Saburo Kitajima stars as Katsuji, a traveling craps artist who finds great camaraderie on the road.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-04-23
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Secrets of Fuji 2
Overview: Early film directed by Eiichi Kudô.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-09-08
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Souls in the Moonlight II
Overview: This is the second installment of the trilogy based on Japan’s greatest novel “The Great Bodhisattva Pass”, following the life and times of bloodthirsty samurai, Tsukue Ryunosuke. Blinded in an explosion and further injured from a fall, the master swordsman is taken in by Otoyo, a woman who falls in love with him. Under Otoyo’s dedicated care, Ryunosuke’s physical and emotional wounds seem to heal. However, deep inside, the demons that drive him to kill yearn to resurface. Meanwhile he is being pursued by Utsugi Hyoma, a young samurai seeking to avenge his brother’s death at Tsukue’s hands. Hyoma is being aided along the way by the clever thief Shichibei.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-04-20
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Sword Devil
Overview: Hanpei is a gentle young samurai that loves flowers. One day, he witnesses an old man's quick draw of the sword. He is so impressed that he becomes the old man's pupil. Soon, Hanpei's skill of sword comes to attention of his lord. The lord orders him to assassinate a man...
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-10-16
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Shinsengumi Chronicles
Overview: As winds of change sweep Japan, an honest man joins the Shinsengumi out of admiration for its leader, and because he wants to live and die as a samurai. However, as his involvement grows, reality and idealism come into deadly conflict.
Genres: Action Thriller War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-01-03
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Gambler and the Princess
Overview: Film directed by Kenji Misumi.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-01-28
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Capricious Young Man
Overview: An adventurer and two accomplices unexpectedly invite themselves to a sword tournament and are offered a job with the lord who organized the competition.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1935-05-30
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A Thousand Flying Cranes
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-05-20
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The Lord Pretends
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-09-13
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 8: Sword of Villainy
Overview: Nemuri Kyoshiro discovers a conspiracy centering around a band of disgruntled samurai wanting to avenge the death of their sensei, a political reformer that pushed for better provisions for the lower classes until he was assassinated by Shogunate agents. Their plot, to set fire to the oil refineries of two rich merchants and unleash a raging inferno that will hopefully burn down the Edo Castle.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-11-09
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Nichiren and the Great Mongol Invasion
Overview: During the 1200's, legendary Buddhist monk Nichiren returns from his studies to lead Japan out of moral crisis and prepare to fight Mongol invaders by creating a new form of Buddhism. He runs afoul of the existing Buddhist sects and their government supporters and is persecuted. Can Nichiren persevere before the Mongol fleet reaches Japanese shores?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-10-01
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Blood Spilled at Takadanobaba
Overview: The tale of Nakayama Yasubei’s duel is famous, even if he in reality probably did not cut down 18 opponents. The story has been related in film, rakugo, kodan and on stage many times, in part because Nakayama later joined the famous 47 Ronin (Chushingura) as Horibe Yasubei. But Makino and Inagaki’s version gives no hint of this more serious future, playing up the thrills and the comedy with Bando’s bravura performance. The multiple pans of Yasubei running to the duel are an exemplar of the experimental flourishes of 1930s Japanese cinema and the final duel, performed virtually like a dance number, is a marker of Makino’s love of rhythm and one of the best sword fights in Japanese film history. The film was originally released under the title Chikemuri Takadanoba (Bloody Takadanobaba) with a length of 57 minutes, but suffered some cuts and a title change when it was re-released in 1952.
Genres: Action Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-12-31
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Merciless Blade
Overview: The first film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass.
Genres: Action Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-04-23
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Code Between Brothers 5
Overview: Saburo Kitajima, one of Japan’s most famous Enka singers, returns in the fifth of the Kyodai Jingi series. During the early 20th century, Ryuji from Asakusa, a wandering yakuza, joins the Narumi Family in Yokohama. However, when he confronts Shiotaro, the head of the rival family, Ryuji takes a liking to him. He ends up leaving his current family, and becomes close to Shiotaro like brothers swearing to become a full-fledged yakuza.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-08-12
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The Master Spearman
Overview: This subversive period film features a hotheaded young samurai, Kurodo, who threatens to commit harakiri in response to the humiliation meted out to his family by the Shogun. The film critiques the inhumanity of feudal obligations, and Uchida’s direction slyly satirizes the contemporary cinematic audience, whose taste for onscreen bloodshed is mirrored in a crowd gathering to watch the protagonist’s planned suicide. The Master Spearman is imbued with Uchida’s characteristic blend of dark humor and stylized action, and Ryutaro Otomo gives an admirable performance in the lead.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-05-15
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Festival of Swordsmen
Overview: During the middle of the Kanei Period (1624-1644) Japan was in the early stages of its most peaceful era. This left a large number of unemployed samurai with nothing to do, and their morale suffered. In order to raise their spirits, the Shogun's Chief Advisor suggests that they hold a "Festival of Swordsmen" in the Shogun's presence. Problems arise when some of the martial artists bring their personal grudges to the competition. When Busshi Shirogoro (OTOMO) meets the daughter of the late Lord SANADA Yukimura sparks fly as she tries to use the competition to carry out her vengeance against Shogun Iemitsu.
Genres: Action History Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-03-21
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Sazen Tange: The Monkey Pot
Overview: A Japanese drama featuring the one-eyed, one-armed swordsman
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-12-08
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Duel at Fort Ezo
Overview: 1864. Samurai Shinbei is sent in a secret mission to Ezo, in the North of Japan, to stop riots of villagers commanded by Jirozaemon. A Russian count's daughter, the village leader's daughter and a secret treasure add up to the adventure.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-02-09
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Samurai from Nowhere
Overview: Misawa Ihei (Nagato) is traveling with his wife Tae (Iwashita Shima) who abhors the practice of sword fighting for prize money. Tae is the daughter of the clan's chief counselor who married the low-ranking Ihei to avoid becoming the clan lord's mistress. Into the mix comes Oba Gunjuro (Tetsurō Tamba), a mysterious ronin who will do anything for money. This leads to a fitting climax as the forces of hate and love converge while the couple attempt to break through the border!
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-01-15
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The Magoichi Saga
Overview: Lord Oda Nobunaga gains control of nearly all of Japan and tries to enlist the aid of Magoichi and his 3.000 gunners.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-09-13
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Chushingura
Overview: The vassals of the Asano clan, who surrendered the castle & became wanderers, deceive the enemy and the public, wait for an opportunity to avenge their master and his family.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1938-03-31
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Vengeance at Iga
Overview: Famed swordsman Araki Mataemon must face his best friend as they are forced to take opposite sides in a vendetta caused by the murder of a family member.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1942-08-13
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Signal Fires of Shanghai
Overview: During the Taiping Rebellion of the mid-19th century, anti-Qing (Manchu) Chinese forces led by Taiping commander Li Xiucheng march on Shanghai. Although the Western powers are officially neutral, the British consul in Shanghai sides with the Qing imperial government, and counter to his own government's policy he retains American adventurer Frederick Townsend Ward to raise a mercenary force of foreigners in Shanghai and oppose the Taipings. Ward's force is routed, with heavy casualties, but since many of the casualties are British, the British army soon is drawn in on the side of the Qings. The only support for the Chinese comes from Japanese in Shanghai and anti-imperialist demonstrations in Japan. A family drama plays out against this historical background. After a Chinese home is destroyed by careless British shelling, killing the father and crippling a daughter, the surviving son vows revenge but begins to see that his true friends may be the Japanese.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1944-12-28
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The Wandering Gambler
Overview: Date Mosui, a young samurai, one day gets a scolding from a nameless ronin that sets him thinking about what life is all about and his ways of living. His frined, Ando Kichinosuke, is alarmed at Mosui's despondency and invites him to his house as his little sister Tsuyu and he try to cheer him up.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1928-08-01
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Castle of Flames
Overview: In 17th century Japan, Young Lord Masato returns after years abroad to find everything changed: his peace-loving father has died in what he soon finds to be mysterious circumstances, and his mother's married to his uncle, whose ruthless ambition is causing turmoil in the kingdom. Not knowing who to trust, Masato feigns madness, vowing to get to the truth, even though his act causes distress to the girl he loves, who's waited for him all these years. The ghost of his father turns up now and then to show him the way. Meanwhile a peasant revolt is brewing... It all ends tragically.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-10-30
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Gyakushû Orochimaru
Overview: An early fantasy film starring Tomisaburô Wakayama.
Genres: Fantasy Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-01-29
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Initiation of the Two-Sword Style
Overview: Ito Daisuke's wartime retelling of the Miyamoto Musashi story.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1943-04-01
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The Red Shadow
Overview: Fifteen years after Ishida Mitsunari lost in the battle of Sekigahara, Tokugawa Ieyasu foresees his unavoidable battle with Toyotomi Hideyori and goes into Fushimi Castle. At the night, Hattori Hanzo, the leader of 36 Iga members who were performing as guards of the castle, perceives the existence of a ninja and captures the mysterious sneaker.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-12-24
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Tange Sazen and the Princess
Overview: Tange Sazen interferes with an evil plot against the Iga Yagyu family.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-05-03
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Zoku Shimizu Minato
Overview: An actor, hit on the head, dreams that he has become legendary one-eyed gangster Mori no Ishimatsu.
Genres: History Comedy Adventure Music Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1940-07-10
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Date Masamune the One-Eyed Dragon
Overview: The life, adventures and exploits of warlord Date Masamune the One-eyed Dragon: his early youth as an aggressive warrior, the battles he won until subduing almost all his enemies, the lonely comprehension of knowing that he actually can not take over the whole country because he was born too late.
Genres: History Drama War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1942-07-02
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Ukyunosuke on Patrol
Overview: This is one of the most powerfully effective ninja films that dispenses with the silly magic of earlier efforts, and concentrates on an excellent story with expert fighting. Sena Denemon is the rarest of government officials, a man of integrity, sent on a mission to uncover the corruption that ran rampant during the Edo Period. Refusing bribes, and willing to put his life on the line to raise his son properly, heinfuriates the corrupt Inspectors; thus endangering his own life. Along with his two trusted vassals, he makes a brave effort to alert the Shogun to the plot which is being carried out. After the battle, his son Ichitaro joins the Chichibu ninja group in order to master fighting so he, too, can fight the forces which have brought about so much suffering.
Genres: Action History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-11-20
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The Invisible Swordsman
Overview: A coward boy fencer becomes invisible and matchless through a magic pill.
Genres: Adventure Action Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-03-21
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Chûshingura
Overview: After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor.
Genres: History Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-11-03
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Echo in the Mountains
Overview: A man is brutally murdered and his famed shamisen (a three-stringed musical instrument) called the "Yamabiko" stolen. Prince Kogenta swears to avenge his father-in-law's death and retrieve the family heirloom.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-09-20
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Keepers of Order
Overview: Chuji and his family become the primary target of gangs in Nikko headed by Hasshu marshal Nakayama and boss Sukegoro Iioka. Chuji is then aided by boss Shigezo Sasagawa, Ishimatsu, and a few young yakuza.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-08-22
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Road of Chivalry
Overview: While on the road, famed Yakuza Boss Jirocho is falsely accused of starting a peasant's uprising and chased by the law. Meanwhile, one of his henchmen in an attempt to raise money for the Boss gambles away not only all their funds, but their clothing as well. Jirocho, famed for his honesty and integrity must take on the challenge of rival gangs while trying to elude the government's officials at the same time. Things really heat up when the most famous of all Yakuza Bosses, Chuji of Kunisada gets involved. Will he team up with his old friend or is gang warfare about to erupt?
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-01-03
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Knightly Advice
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-01-31
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The Wiser Age
Overview: Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-01-14
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Ninja's Weapon
Overview: During a time of war, Lord Ogata is betrayed by two of his closest vassals and killed by his enemy, Sarashina Danjo. Ten years later, Lord Ogata's only living heir, now a skilled ninja, uses sorcery to avenge the murders of his parents.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-10-31
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Tragedy of the Coolie Samurai
Overview: Gonza was a handsome young laborer, a footman and spear-carrier, working hard for his meager wage. All Gonza wanted was to marry his young sweetheart, but despite their mutual poverty, her status as the daughter of a samurai blocked their path to happiness. A chance opportunity to achieve samurai status would come one day, but Gonza will regret trusting the so-called honorable samurai who extended this fateful offer, and the terrible price he'd pay, fighting for his life in one of the most blood-spattered samurai battles ever filmed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-04-21
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Ugetsu
Overview: In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearby village, in defiance of a local sage's warning against seeking to profit from warfare. Genjuro's pursuit of both riches and the mysterious Lady Wakasa, as well as Tobei's desire to become a samurai, run the risk of destroying both themselves and their wives, Miyagi and Ohama.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-03-26
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The Lightning Sword
Overview: Shinjiro is a rambler, a single sword carrying lone wolf with only his fighting skills to protect him. He doesn’t know where his road leads, only that he must find his lost sister, and the ronin who stole her away. The ronin that Shinjiro has sworn to kill. On the road he’ll find his sister and test his blade against his bitter enemy. He also encounters a lost boy searching for his father, a boy he will swear to protect, and find his own lost love, a daughter of the yakuza who draws him into a frenzied and bloody battle between rival yakuza gangs for the control of a frightened town.
Genres: Adventure Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-12-08
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Cases of Hanshichi
Overview: Detective Hanshichi (Kataoka Chiezo) solves 3 mysterious murder cases. Great story and an impressive all-star cast, a must see!
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-10-16
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Female Ninja Magic
Overview: In Osaka during the Edo period, ruler Sanada Yukimura was in losing position, fearing Toyotomi's blood descendents would end, he impregnates one of five Shinano female ninja with the seed of Toyotomi Hideyoshi in hopes of continuing the bloodline. Princess Sen and the five female ninja escape from Osaka castle by blending in with the handmaidens. Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu who was supposed to rule all under the heavens was informed of this secret. So Ieyasu orders five samurai of the Iga Ninja clan (brought by Hattori Hanzo) to stop the Toyotomi bloodline by killing the Kunoichi ninja. An attack of ninja magic arts unfolds in a battle of the sexes.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-10-03
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Mysteries of Edo
Overview: A princess in disguise, Oshichi launches an investigation to reveal the truth about the disappearance of young women in Edo.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-11-07
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Mark of Blood
Overview: Three young yakuza, Fujitaro, Matsugoro and Kanjuro, travel the country fighting evil.
Genres: Crime Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-10-12
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Showdown of Men 4: Tetsu, the White Tiger
Overview: Tetsu, is a honourable and noble yakuza caught in a conflict between rival clans, and obligations each has toward their yakuza boss and brothers. A railroad line brings changing times to a community. Because Tetsu can't stand by and allow a bunch of yakuza men to molest women, it forces him to battle it out with a knife wielding rival, the unfortunate incident leads to his boss losing face and him having to leave the family to protect it. But the rival family won't stop until they destroy Tetsu who will risk life and love for his brothers.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-01-27
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The Flower and the Dragon
Overview: A story of manly life and the beauty of conjugal love. A story about a man and a woman establishing a family of longshoreman, centering on their love and struggle.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-11-20
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Zatoichi's Flashing Sword
Overview: Blind masseur Zatoichi is nursed back to health by a young woman after he is shot by a gang member. Zatoichi, who had come to the village to repay a debt, now feels further indebted. He commits himself to use his amazing sword skills to help the young woman's father, whose river-crossing service is under attack by the same gang responsible for Zatoichi's wounds.
Genres: Action Drama Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-07-11
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Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu
Overview: In turbulent 16th-century Japan, the leaders of a minor fief have their child taken from them as a political hostage. His mother and his clan endure years of tribulations until he can return.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-01-03
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The South Sea Wolf
Overview: Namie's in trouble again, getting snatched by an evil gang in search of treasure. Kirimaru sets out to rescue his sweetheart, and falls in with a band of pirates who are also hunting the hidden stash.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-07-09
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Sugata Sanshiro
Overview: The story of Sanshiro Sugata, a young man who wants to learn the new art of judo. A wise teacher reveals to Sanshiro that judo is not merely a means of combat nor a demonstration of physical skill, but an art which reveals the artist to himself.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-10-29
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Taira Clan Saga
Overview: Japan, 1137. The Taira family, a samurai clan, becomes involved in the disputes between Emperor Toba and the monks of Mount Hiei.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-09-21
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Hanjiro of Kusama: Bird of Passage
Overview: A kindhearted wandering gambler named Hajiro gets involved in a crisis of a village as he passes through and decides to lend a sword in hopes to rescue them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-05-29
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A Samurai Never Tells a Lie
Overview: The shogun's vassal Harima Aoyama and a chamber maid are in love with each other, but they cannot be together due to a difference of their status. Soon, an offer of marriage is brought to Harima. Trying to test his love, Okiku breaks one of the plates of the family treasure of the Aoyama family, but Harima doesn't notice. However, someone surrounding her witnesses the moment Okiku breaks the plate on purpose.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-05-29
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On This Earth
Overview: Ichiro’s family used to be a large landowner, but now he is living in poverty with his mother. His mother works hard to get her son through school. Under such circumstances, Ichiro meets Wakako, the daughter of a wealthy man, and they fall in love with each other, but they are opposed by those around them because of their different social status.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-11-22
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Magistrate of Dice
Overview: Based on the exploits of real-life historical character Magistrate Toyama no Kinsan, this exciting tale brings the “Demon Magistrate” as he is called to the aid of a beautiful young woman who asks to be abducted on the eve of her wedding so that she would not have to marry a country bumpkin. Instead she plans to go to Edo, where life can be cheap and common criminals run rampant. Can Magistrate Toyama, a gambler himself, see through the plot and keep her safe from harm. Don’t miss this spectacular showpiece of samurai era action led by superstar Kataoka Chiezo in one of his signature roles. When he bares his tattooed right shoulder, all hell breaks loose!
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-04-18
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Hanatarō Jumon
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-02-05
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Young Boss: Invitation to Fight
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Thief and Magistrate
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-12-07
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Yakuza Beasts-Blood Settlement
Overview: Third and last movie in the Yakuza Hijoshi trilogy.
Genres: Action Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-02-21
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The Second Son
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-01-29
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The Princess Says No
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-12-08
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The Magical Warrior
Overview: Rikitaro and Osayo are popular entertainers who throw knives. They are sweethearts. At one day They help Ocho, who is a beautiful pickpocket when she is attacked by Ronin. in Asakusa, However, they come to be surrounded by doubtful Ronin after that. Moreover, Rikitaro is called to stop by Kajima of Edo-Karo of Nihonmatsu-Han. He calls him a young lord and treats Rikitaro as one, because his young lord, Tetsunojo is missing. Kuni-Garo makes a plan to carry out. Kikumaru, the younger brother of the mother difference in him instead of Tetsunojo, Since Rikitaro is just like Tetsunojo, then, they are convinced that it is Tetsunojo of Rikitaro. Rikitaro and Osayo decide to help Kajima and Tetsunojo. Finally they success to crush Kikumarsu's group.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-09-06
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The Young Lord
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-04-19
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Peony on the Skin
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-01-03
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Lords of Oppression
Overview: Period drama directed by Yasushi Sasaki.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-03-13
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Yutaro kodan
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-01-14
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Lords of Oppression 2
Overview: Period drama directed by Yasushi Sasaki.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-03-27
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Ushiwakamaru
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-09-17
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An Eagle Eyed Lord
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-06-21
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Turbulent Highways
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-03-25
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Sword of Wind and Clouds
Overview: This gripping historical drama depicts a clash of swordsmen, secret government spies, mysterious thieves, robbers and roving samurai who want to take possession of the “Sword of Heaven and Earth.” The film stars the father and son of Jushiro Konoe and Hiroki Matsukata.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-10-05
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A Warrior Generation
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-02-14
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Revenge for His Lover
Overview: Kamio a mistreated samurai clerk of Edo Castle and ronin (“Sir Quarrel”) Ibara, take up a vendetta against 17 wicked castle men.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-11-11
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Dedication of the Great Buddha
Overview: Dedication of the Great Buddha is a 1952 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-03-20
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Resurrection
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-06-10
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The Well-known Magistrate
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-06-07
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The Official And The Princess of Thieves
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1951-01-05
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The Fighting Magistrate
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1955-03-28
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The Jumping Magistrate
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-11-27
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Zenigata Heiji: Ghost Lord
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Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-09-29
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Isshin Tasuke: Edoites Festival
Overview: A costumed film featuring the famous hero of Japanese history, Isshin Tasuke, arranged in the form of a popular song.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-04-20
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Pirates Magistrate
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-02-25
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Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi
Overview: Nezumi Kozō is the nickname of Nakamura Jirokichi, a Japanese thief and folk hero who lived in Edo during the Edo period. His exploits have been commemorated in kabuki theatre, folk songs, jidaigeki, and modern pop culture.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-04-03
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Taki no shiraito
Overview: A 1946 Japanese film directed by Keigo Kimura.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1946-10-01
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The Red Bat
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-10-07
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Matashirō Fighting Journey
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-01-09
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Migratory Birds of the Flowers
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Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-01-03
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Last Days of Edo
Overview: It is a historical drama that follows Katsu Kaishu's efforts to surrender Edo Castle bloodlessly in the first year of the Meiji period.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1941-11-28
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Kill!
Overview: A pair of down-on-their-luck swordsmen arrive in a dusty, windblown town, where they become involved in a local clan dispute. One, previously a farmer, longs to become a noble samurai. The other, a former samurai haunted by his past, prefers living anonymously with gangsters. But when both men discover the wrongdoings of the nefarious clan leader, they side with a band of rebels who are under siege at a remote mountain cabin.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-06-22
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Japan's Longest Day
Overview: Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies for unconditional surrender. Minister of the Army Anami leads the military officers who propose to fight on, even to the death of every Japanese citizen. Emperor Hirohito, however, joins with his ministers in asking the unthinkable, the peaceful surrender of Japan. When the military plots a coup to overthrow the Emperor's civilian government, Anami must face the choice between his desires and loyalty to his Emperor.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-08-03
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Traveling with Breeze
Overview: 1953 Hiroshi Inagaki movie.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-05-07
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The Greatest Man in the World
Overview: In the midst of the depression, two ronin rack their brains to come up with a dishonest scheme. Taking a man from the countryside, they fashion him into Ise Isenokami, the finest swordsman under the sun. Pretending to be his followers, they visit various sword fighting dojo. Out of fear upon hearing the name Isenokami, they pay him off and do not let him enter their training halls. The impostor eventually comes face to face with the real Isenokami after rescuing his daughter, Oyae, who is caught up in a minor incident.
Genres: Drama Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1932-01-14
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Kuriyama Daizen
Overview: Prewar jidaigeki starring Denjiro Okochi
Genres: History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1936-11-12
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The Domain: Where The Blade Enters
Overview: The Domain: Where The Blade Enters
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-09-15
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Gantaro Path
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Genres: History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1934-11-29
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Bored Hatamoto: Island of No Return
Overview: Part of the Bored Hatamoto series. The most popular samurai in Edo, Saotome Mondonosuke, known to most as the "Bored Hatamoto" is the only one who can save the shogunate from the dastardly plot to take over the country.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-01-09
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Goblin Courier
Overview: Jida-geki by Santaro Marune.
Genres: History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1949-01-04
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Jiraiya
Overview: Based on the old tale of Jiraiya, this 1937 version is essentially a revenge story with fantastic visuals.
Genres: Fantasy History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1937-12-31
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Koina no Ginpei
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-08-27
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Flowery Hood
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-07-25
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The Gambling Samurai
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-11-14
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Martial Arts Encyclopedia
Overview: Martial Arts Encyclopedia
Genres: History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1934-02-08
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Mangorō Tengu
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-08-06
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Edo Purebreed
Overview: Action and adventure abound in this story of friendship between two rival firefighters, Kichigoro and Jirokichi in old Japan. When Mukai Sadayu, the vassal of Kaga Clan's accounting officer, Shinagawa Daihachi demands that Omon serve him tea in his mansion and she refuses, the clan's samurai abduct her setting in motion a series of events that will bring the two firefighters into a world of danger and excitement. Jirokichi, leader of the Edo firefighting team "Ha-gumi" must first rescue Omon from the clutches of the vile Kaga Clan's retainers.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-02-07
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Ninja Assassins
Overview: Saotome Mondonosuke pursues the culprit who placed a malicious curse upon Shogun Tsunekichi.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-06-29
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The Shogun and the Fishmonger
Overview: Fishmonger Tasuke and Shogun Iemitsu swap their identities in pretence for the protection of Iemitsu.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-03
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Straw hat of Itako
Overview: A film about young wandering Yakuza. Yukio Hashi's first film role.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-25
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The Tattooed Magistrate: Fallen Flowers Showdown Volume
Overview:
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-04-23
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Vampire Dead Beauty Carving
Overview: Japanese horror drama movie from 1961.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-05-28
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三万両五十三次
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1952-01-25
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晴小袖
Overview: 1961 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-09
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Nage Utasamon niban tegara: Tsuri tenjô no semushi otoko
Overview: Second in the Nage Utasamon series
Genres: Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-07-28
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Return of the One-Armed Swordsman
Overview: The legendary one-eyed one-armed swordsman Tange Sazen is back to aid a Magistrate in his efforts to steal bribe money on its way to Edo for the benefit to poor farmers.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-01-15
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53 Stages of the Road
Overview: An Edo appointed official Baba must ensure the safe delivery of shogunate funds to Kyoto.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-10-18
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The Tattooed Magistrate: Cherry Blossoms Dance Volume
Overview:
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1950-04-14
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Big Time Gambling Boss
Overview: Tokyo, 1934. The boss of the clan that controls gambling agonizes and some of his followers propose to Nakai to take his place, but he refuses the offer.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-01-14
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Six Men Mustered in Great Edo
Overview: A parody based on Kabuki plays about thieves led by the famous Soshun Kochiyama.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1953-12-22
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The Shogun Assassins
Overview: This is a film about a real person. Sanada Yukimura fought a war against Tokugawa Ieyasu.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-09-01
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The Gambler
Overview: A crime film released in 1965
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-07-10
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Tsubakuro dōchū
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-09-18
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やくざ大名
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-10-24
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快剣士・笑いの面
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-03-08
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The Black Hooded Man Rides Again
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-08-02
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Saikoro mushuku
Overview:
Genres: History Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-05-10
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Miyamoto Musashi - Dai-ichi-bu: Kusawake no hitobito - Dai-ni-bu: Eitatsu no mon
Overview: A movie by Hiroshi Inagaki
Genres: War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1940-03-31
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