Kusuo Abe

若さま侍捕物帳　黒い椿

Tadashi Sawashima

Hashizo Okawa, Isuzu Yamada

Escaping the hustle and bustle of Edo, the Young Lord came to Oshima Island in Izu to take a vacation. Unexpectedly, the island's boss, Amimoto, was brutally murdered with a harpoon. As usual, the Young Lord sets out to solve the case. However, most of the islanders have a grudge against Amimoto, and there are so many suspects that he is at his wits' end this time. Set against the beautiful sea of Izu and the majestic Mt. Mihara, the Young Lord's brilliant deductions and his secret sword Ichimonjo-Kakureshi cut through the mystery!

大菩薩峠

Kunio Watanabe

Kusuo Abe, Shinobu Chihara

The first film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass.

いろは若衆　花駕篭峠

Toshikazu Kono

Hibari Misora, Kotaro Satomi

An adventure of a feisty girl Oyuki and Santa, a homeless child she saves.

旗本喧嘩鷹

Nobuo Nakagawa

Utaemon Ichikawa, Yumiko Hasegawa

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.

唄祭りかんざし纏

Kinnosuke Fukada

Chiyonosuke Azuma, Koinosuke Onoe

Fearless girl firefighter Oharu and skilled firefighter Shintaro battle against their evil rivals who threaten to take over Oharu’s family’s turf.

森繁のデマカセ紳士

Kunio Watanabe

Hisaya Morishige, Junko Ebata

Scammer Horikawa Shinbei hopes to make a quick buck using Namie, a stripper under his control.

あばれ大名

Kokichi Uchide

Utaemon Ichikawa, Kenji Susukida

江戸っ子判官とふり袖小僧

Tadashi Sawashima

Chiezō Kataoka, Chizuru Kitagawa

It's an extravaganza of entertainment as famous magistrate in disguise, Toyama no Kinshiro attempts to confront the elusive thief known as the "Long-Sleeve Burglar". Played to the hilt by Misora Hibari in a delightful performance highlighted by singing, dancing, and swordplay with a unique story within a story twist that starts to unfold in the city jail as a playwright is brought into custody and meets the famed Long-Sleeve Burglar himself. Misora Hibari is totally captivating in this gender bending role as the famed thief whose expoits can only be stopped by the great Kin-san himself!

生きる

Akira Kurosawa

Takashi Shimura, Haruo Tanaka

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.

旗本退屈男　謎の竜神岬

Yasushi Sasaki

Utaemon Ichikawa, Kotaro Satomi

Ryujin Misaki, located at the edge of the Genkai Sea, is known as an isolation ward for leprosy patients. When Saotome, a sword master and guard of the Shogun, hears news of a doctor gone missing, he begins to suspect that things are not what they seem at Ryujin Misaki. Intent on discovering the truth, Saotome launches a private investigation.

Hero of the Red Light District

Tomu Uchida

Chiezō Kataoka, Yoshie Mizutani

A successful textile industrialist from the provinces, who is beloved by his employees for his kindness, cannot find a wife because of a disfiguring birthmark on his face. Even the courtesans in Yoshiwara refuse to entertain him, until an indentured peasant prostitute, Tamarazu, takes the unsavoury assignment and treats him with brash tenderness.

十三人の刺客

Eiichi Kudo

Chiezō Kataoka, Kō Nishimura

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.

隼人族の叛乱

Sadatsugu Matsuda

Utaemon Ichikawa, Kinnosuke Nakamura

In the mist of the warring age (Sengoku Era), the Kyushu based Hayato Clan is faced with a monumental battle to determine their survival.

紫頭巾

Shumei Onishi

Chiezō Kataoka, Kotaro Satomi

Kataoka Chiezo stars as Murasaki Zukin, a mysterious hero of the people who helps those in need. Now under the rule of the evil Tanuma, the people look to Murasaki Zukin more than ever, to confront and punish those who bring misfortune upon the commoners. Will he be able to bring peace to the land? One of the greatest actors from Toei Studios, known mainly for his swashbuckling roles as powerful swordsmen such as Ryunosuke in SOULS IN THE MOONLIGHT, he appeared in 325 films both before and after the war, beginning with CHUSHINGURA in 1928, and including KUNISADA CHUJI in 1933, and DOKUGANRYO MASAMUNE. While best known for his swordplay, Chiezo really did not enjoy the action, but was able to use his menacing presence to stare down his adversaries. Although Kataoka Chiezo passed away in 1983 at the age of 79, he still has many fans today. This film shows him at his best.

宮本武蔵

Hiroshi Inagaki

Toshirō Mifune, Rentaro Mikuni

Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to become a mighty samurai warrior.

武士道残酷物語

Tadashi Imai

Kinnosuke Nakamura, Ineko Arima

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.