Kikuko Hojo Movies

While on his journey through the countryside of Japan, Shingo encounters many people whose lives have been affected by his actions. Though the many...

A wave of terror is threatening to unseat Shogun Yoshimune. Police stations are erupting into flames, convicts escaping from prison, houses robbed...

A playful short film made in the style of a trailer for a fictional feature film that seems to be a spoof of films that were popular in Japan at the...

Japanese horror film directed by Tsuneo Kobayashi.

Detective Umon’s services are called upon when ronin Yaichiro is killed with a peculiar weapon, a stone wrapped in a towel.

The plot is based on the novel "Akechi Samanosuke no Koi," the final work in a trilogy by Hiroshi Kato about the forced suicide of Oda Nobunaga at...

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...

1961 Japanese movie

Friendship between an ambitious young thief and an artist during the Warring States period.

This is the story of a bad man who re-discovering humanity via woman and child while clashing with the yakuza and being hunted by a man called...

A film about the confrontation between two yakuza groups in the brutal Miike prison, which contained 1,500 inmates. The second film in the series...

1962 Japanese movie

A wandering vagrant, Hantaro, risks his life to save a beautiful blind girl and her father from con artists.

Tradition and modernity clash when a young woman inherits a sweet-making firm in Kyoto.

A lord explores the lives of common people.

1962 Japanese movie

The Purple-Hooded Man, Japan's version of Robin Hood, tries to uncover a corruption scandal in Edo era Japan.

Shochiku's commemorative 3000th film production; a suspenseful period drama.

1962 Japanese movie