Yoshirō Aoki Movies

Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Michiyo Aratama

This is the story of a vagrant samurai – the solitary, savage and scrupulous Kiba – who arrives at a village to defend a beautiful, blind...

Genre: Action

Cast: Isao Natsuyagi

Kiba Okaminosuke finds himself entangled with a group of prisoners being transported to their executions, one of whom oddly looks exactly like his...

Genre: Action

Cast: Isao Natsuyagi

The great Daimyo enlists the aid of the three Shadow Hunters in ensuring the delivery of an illegal cannon in this sequel to Toshio Masuda's bloody...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

After a woman is framed for the murder of her fisherman husband, she seeks out a bloody revenge on the corrupt businessmen responsible.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Mari Shirato

The Taisho era was a time of turbulence in Japan. From new marks of modernity to full-blown riots, a sense of revolution filled the air. The Dam Dam...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yoko Takahashi

The third movie in Tôru Murakawa's Game trilogy about a hitman. Narumi is set up by a mysterious woman. Abducted and tortured, Narumi is forced...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Yūsaku Matsuda

A parable about the inefficiency and anachronism of the Japanese educational system, which places an unusually large amount of importance on cramming...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Shigeru Yamamoto

In 1943, critical developments in the Pacific War have placed Japan at a disadvantage, although the fiery breaths of war hadn't yet reached Okinawa...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

A young man returns home from the bar only to find a woman who was about to kill herself. Taking her home and protecting her, he learns that...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yuki Kazamatsuri

Rumors are circulating that the shogunate is losing control of some feudal domains. Lord Yagyu Munefuyu is assigned to deal with the problem and the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yoshirō Aoki

After a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he recounts his gruesome family history which saw generations of his ancestors suffer and...

Genre: History

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

A street war breaks loose between two rival gangs in the Kansai region of Japan. Goro is in the middle of action. Through a knife fight against Sueo,...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tetsuya Watari

Okawa Hashizo is 'Red Peony' Hanji who is thrown into a prison cell where he gets involved in a plot to steal government gold from the Shogun's...

Genre: Action

Cast: Hashizo Okawa

When Keiji Takama returns to Nagasaki, he finds many changes. The rights of the entertainment field that had been held by his family have been taken...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tetsuya Watari

Shiba, a wandering ronin, encounters a band of peasants who have kidnapped the daughter of their dictatorial magistrate, in hopes of coercing from...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tetsurō Tamba

Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, Kaji witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts...

Genre: War

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

Masuda Toshio film starring Watari Tetsuya and Mori Masayuki, about a lone-wolf type (Watari) seeking love and defending the honor of an elderly...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tetsuya Watari

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

Genre:

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

A young outlaw can’t escape his rebellious past despite connections to a well to do family.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshio Harada

The disbandment of the Tanno clan left gang member Tetsu to stray from the crime family's fold. He roamed the streets as a one man band, wearing a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yoshio Harada

Hanamura, widely known in gangland a professional trouble shooter has the sign of the Jack tattooed on his chest. His follower is his sworn partner...

Genre: Action

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

A policeman is murdered and his gun, stolen, used to commit the next crime. Detective Kashiwagi, who is leading the investigation, learns that the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yūsaku Matsuda

The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. The husband and his samurai father must decide whether to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Rivalry between two young gangster groups who seek to extend their influence.

Genre:

Cast: Tetsuya Watari

After saving a young Lord from an assassination attempt the Lowly Ronin finds that he is now a wanted man! Accused of being a thief by those that...

Genre: Action

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Accused of being a spy for a rival clan by Nanbu Clan samurai who then attack him, the 'Lowly Ronin' barely escapes with his life after being shot. ...

Genre: Action

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

The lord of the Oshi fief is killed by his trespassing neighbour, the cruel and despotic Nariatsu, son of the former Shogun. After an investigation,...

Genre: Action

Cast: Isao Natsuyagi

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...

Genre: Action

Cast: Isamu Nagato

Young Lord Takenaka stands to succeed his father until a series of violent actions lead his retainers to think that he has gone mad with blood-lust. ...

Genre: Action

Cast: Isamu Nagato

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshiyuki Nagashima

Young man returns from prison and sets out to destroy the gang that killed his friends and boss of his former gang.

Genre:

Cast: Tetsuya Watari

Depicts the bloody siege of the fortress of Port Arthur, one of the most strongly fortified positions in the world, during the Russo-Japanese War of...

Genre: War

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tetsuya Watari

Story of three people, a barber, a Christian and a graduate of the Tokyo Military Academy during the 2nd World War.

Genre: War

Cast: Tetsurō Tamba

After serving 10 years in prison for murdering a rival boss, Tetsu is appalled to see his yakuza family overgrown and dysfunctional upon his release.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

Dramatic story of one man trying to make a difference.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tetsurō Tamba

Reprising his role from the popular TV series "Koya no Suronin" (The Lowly Ronin), Mifune Toshiro stars in this full-length, stand-alone made for TV...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemployed, and with no family, he hopes to find...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

Asakura was told he could leave the gang if he killed Takahata, but he failed and was sentenced to two years. When he was released, the Oyane group...

Genre:

Cast: Tetsuya Watari

Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But Shinji has a rival for Hatsue's affections, Yasuo....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Momoe Yamaguchi

Remake of Kurosawa's films Sanshiro Sugata and Sanshiro Sugata part 2. A young man, Sanshiro Sugata, troubled by personal problems, takes up judo....

Genre: Action

Cast: Yūzō Kayama

Genre:

Cast: Shōhei Hino

Kazama and three others defeated Yoshie Sangyo, but the Nishio group was disbanded due to public pressure, and the territory belonged to the Hirata...

Genre:

Cast: Tetsuya Watari

A real all-star cast turns out for this modern yakuza yarn.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

The chimpira 'Katsuichi' got his hands on the only daughter of the largest daughter in the Kanto region.

Genre:

Cast: Show Aikawa

Former policeman Matsushita Hiroshi is a professional marksman shootist. When his keen eye catches his target in the dry urban darkness, the hard,...

Genre: Action

Cast: Toru Nakamura

A man falls in love with a man with his spiritual past.

Genre:

Cast: Riki Takeuchi

In 1943 Japan is facing defeat. This makes Shinkichi, a straight, selfless student-patriot, ever more restless. He can no longer stand his soft...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryotaro Sugi

The fifth installment of the Gokudo Action Series, which depicts the process of the yakuza organization walking on the path to national domination,...

Genre: Action

Cast: Show Aikawa

In a small town on the Kasumigaura coast in the early Showa period, the Masukawa clan from Tokyo is trying to take away the interests of the local...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Chieko Matsubara

Four years ago, Teppei Hondo killed two people from the Shinwa group for the murder of his brother. After serving a 3-year prison sentence, he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tetsuya Watari

A 1967 crime film

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tetsurō Tamba

Genre:

Cast: Riki Takeuchi

In a match where professional baseball referee Yuzo Tagami was observing a young referee, Hara, a player who got angry at the indecisive judge,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

The story of three brothers who, after loosing their parents in the Great Kanto Earthquake, continued their respective yakuza family business and the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

Genre: Action

Cast: Tetsuya Watari

Post World War II, Minoru lives by selling supplies that had been stolen from the U.S. military. One day, he is arrested due to the plotting of...

Genre: Action

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yūzō Kayama

Second movie in the Sakura Code series.

Genre: Action

Cast: Hideki Takahashi