Isao Yamagata
Birthday: 1915-07-25
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Biography: No biography available.
Movies
Seven Samurai
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...
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20 Duels of Young Shingo - Conclusion
While on his journey through the countryside of Japan, Shingo encounters many people whose lives hav...
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Samurai Rebellion
The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. The husband ...
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Shadow Over Fuji
The year is 1805. Napoleon ruled Europe. Ienari is the 11th Tokugawa Shogun. An incident, which was ...
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Isshin Tasuke: A World in Danger
Tasuke stumbles across Kokichi, a distraught man whom having lost his fiancee to Lord Kawakatsu is r...
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Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 3
The adventures of Aoi Shingo continue. Shingo is finally given permission to officially meet his fat...
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Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades
Ogami Itto volunteers to be tortured by Yakuza in order to save a prostitute and is hired by their l...
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53 Stages of the Road
An Edo appointed official Baba must ensure the safe delivery of shogunate funds to Kyoto....
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Seven from Edo
When Katsukawa, a low ranking vassal, learns that his greedy superior, Tatewaki, has hatched a plan ...
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Diary of a Wandering Lord
Two thrill seeking young lords sneak out of their castles and travel under the disguise of townsmen....
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Gate of Hell
Japan, 1159. Moritō, a brave samurai, performs a heroic act by rescuing the lovely Kesa during a vio...
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Glorious Standard Bearer
Hashizo Okawa in the form of a courageous firefighter who confronts unscrupulous traders who make a ...
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Kisaragi Sword
The story concerns the efforts of seven master swordsman who join together to protect the new inexpe...
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Lord Mito 2: The Nation's Vice Shogun
After settling the matter of shogunal succession, the retired Old Lord of Mito finds himself in a se...
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Fall of the Shogun's Militia
Kondo Isami, the “Devil” commander of the Shinsengumi was one of Japan’s greatest national heroes an...
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Zatoichi's Pilgrimage
Zatoichi's trek through 88 temples to atone for his violent past is interrupted as he stumbles into ...
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The Trout
The sexual and social dysfunctional behaviour of the corporate elite are further aggravated when a n...
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Floating Clouds
A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Jap...
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Case of Umon: One-Eyed Wolf
Five swordsmen are murdered and hung from a tree and the chase is on to find the killers. Two magist...
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Mid-August Commotion
A suspense work based on the "Miyagi Incident," an attempted coup d'etat led by some officers workin...
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A Story Written with Water
Struggling with his true emotions, dreams, memories of the past and the reality Shizuo is about to m...
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Warning from Space
Large star-shaped aliens travel to earth in hopes of warning them about an oncoming catastrophe. To ...
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A Ghost Love Story of Japan
A daughter of Hatamoto (high-ranked soldier) Otsuyu (Akiko Kana) and a Ronin living in Choya (cheap ...
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Ejima and Ikushima
This period film is inspired by one of the most notorious scandals to have taken place in Edo-period...
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The Princess Sen
During the Warring States era of early 17th century Japan, teenage princess Sen is besieged with oth...
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The Eagle of the Pacific
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grav...
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I Shall Not Forget
Hearing that his friend Yosuke Tsumura had died, Shiro Okabe returned to Kyoto. He felt that Yusuke'...
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Where did Sharaku go?
Writer Jippensha Ikku hears Tsutaya Juzaburo, a wholesaler of picture books, mutter on his deathbed,...
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The Radish and the Carrot
One day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled company ...
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Murder on The Last Train
One of the earliest Japanese cop films following a mysterious killing on the last train to Mitaka, T...
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Epic Crash
Utaemon Ichikawa plays the role of Hikoshiro Navate, who has a strong sense of justice and opposes p...
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Eternal Love
The love story of an aspiring architect and a charcoal-making daughter, who discover that they are a...
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The Tragic General: Yamashita Tomoyuki
When Japan entered into the great tragedy that was unforgettable, the general general of the history...
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Genkuro Yoshitsune
An exciting historical drama that dynamically depicts the life of Minamoto no Yoshitsune from the pe...
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The Abandoned Swords
Best friends Gentaro and Sanpei become fateful enemies when Sanpei steals a secret document revealin...
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Street of Wandering Men
When a group of men from the Hanya clan search his town for a missing geisha, a brave ronin decides ...
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Shozo, a Cat and Two Women
Shozo is plagued by the needs of his ex-wife and his current one, but prefers the company of his cat...
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Jirocho’s Days of Youth: Boss of the Tokai Region
His skill and courage were the best in Japan! The life story of Jirocho, a man who protected people ...
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Goblin's Highway
Gombei is Nameless, a wanderer who is skilled with a sword and has a great sense of humor, who tries...
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Aoi Secret Book
A Golden Age drama depicting the exploits of passionate patriot Uotaro Toge in the midst of a myster...
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Kanbei's Bargain Sale
Wandering swordsman Kanbei, parading through town with a sign that reads "Seeking fights, selling my...
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Twilight of Tokyo
A romance that follows the men in the life of Kyoko a Travel Agent working for New Japan Travel Serv...
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Bored Hatamoto: Idle Vassal Tribute
Master swordsman and loya 'Hatamoto' (direct vassal to the Shogun), Saotome Mondonosuke, is sent to ...
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Ninja Assassins
Saotome Mondonosuke pursues the culprit who placed a malicious curse upon Shogun Tsunekichi....
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Ghost Ship Part 1
As Part I opens, Jubei (Denjiro Okochi), the best of sea skippers, is unable to overcome the stormy ...
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Ooka Seidan: Defense of The Weak Pt. 2
Masanori Igayama, who directed "Mito Komon Manyuki: The Counterattack of Toukuzaki," will direct the...
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Case of a Young Lord 10: The Mystery of the Spider Lady
Young lord investigates the mysterious death that takes place in the underworld....
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Lightning Karate Blow
Ken Takakura's screen debut, following his admission into Toei ranks via the studio's annual New Fac...
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Himalayan Wanderer
One after another, expedition teams were being attacked in the Himalayas. With the unprecedented boo...
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The Ambitious
The story of Ryoma Sakamoto, considered to be the architect behind the downfall of the Tokugawa shog...
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Japan Samurai: Niiro Tsuruchiyo
An adaptation of the famous novel by Jiromasa Gunji about the difficult story of Niiro Tsuruchiyo, t...
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House of Spider Webs
Based on the original story by Seishi Yokomizo, House of Spider Webs is a gorgeous historical drama ...
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The Sand City in Manchuria
When the plague threatens a small town in Manchuria, a young doctor finds himself struggling to save...
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The Third Ninja
Three Iga ninja are on a hunt for Chidoken, a Takeda ninja sent out to assasinate Lord Nobunaga....
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The Boy Detectives Club – The Devil with Twenty Faces
Second film in the Boy Detectives Club series....
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The Phantom Goblin
An injured Edo official is rescued by a vassal whose appearance is exactly like himself, and swears ...
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A World For Two
On a passenger ship to Japan, the journalist Kawase encounters a man who claims to be a Filipino, bu...
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A Fishwife's Tale
Hibari Misora plays Yoshiko, the popular daughter of a fish market owner. After discovering that she...
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Noble Tasuke
The story opens in October of 1624 when the newly appointed Shogun Iemitsu visits the famed Kan-ei t...
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Points and Lines
Based on Matsumoto Seicho's classic mystery novel of the same name, the story centers around a group...
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The Yagyu Military Art: One Eyed Swordsman
In the fourth film in this exciting series, and the first since losing his left eye, Yagyu Jubei is ...
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Yagyu Military Art: Jubei's Redemption
In the fifth installment, Yagyu Jubei must prove the innocence of his family who is suspected of con...
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Christ in Bronze
Christian converts face persecution in the feudal society of 17th century Japan....
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Three Loves
In a mountain village, Heita, a translator's son, is a gifted boy but is shunned by the villagers. H...
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Feisty Edo Girl Nakanori-san
Daughter of a lumber shop in Edo strives to protect her family business from the competitor. Sado Ma...
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Case of Umon: Hell’s Windmill
Umon’s services are called upon when innocent bystanders, Kayo and Minokichi, along with the ronin, ...
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Case of Umon: The Nanbanzame Murders
The serial killing of a samurai each night by strangulation at various temples confounds investigato...
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The Man of Seven Faces
Detective Tarao investigates the deaths of police officers who were involved in solving a kidnapping...
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A Chivalrous Spirit
An all-star cast highlights this Jidai-Geki classic. Set in the samurai era, this is the tale of per...
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Edo Purebreed
Action and adventure abound in this story of friendship between two rival firefighters, Kichigoro an...
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Shinobi No Mono 6: The Last Iga Spy
[Period covered: 1637-1651] This is one of the most complicated plots of any of the Shinobi no Mono ...
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Mask of the Moon
Young swordsman, Tsukigata Hanpeita, longs for the day when rival clans cease their struggles for po...
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Ninja's Weapon
During a time of war, Lord Ogata is betrayed by two of his closest vassals and killed by his enemy, ...
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The Second Bullet is Marked
Tsunokichi and Ken face off against a rival yakuza in Kyushu....
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Officer Morgan and a Man of Mystery
Detective Morgan and the Japanese police cooperate to unveil the truth of the mysterious death of Mo...
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G-Men in the Pacific
G-men challenge a jewelry smuggling ring. The chase starts in Kyushu and continues to Kobe to Yokoha...
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Rice
A touching story depicting the harsh lives of farmers in Kasumigaura. An attempt to start a fishery ...
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The Acrobats of Death
Saotome, a sword master and guard of the Shogunate, pursues the mystery of a deadly aerial weapon th...
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Marital Relations
The story of a couple, a spoiled son and a down-to-earth girl, in Osaka in the early Showa era. The ...
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The Unbalanced Wheel
A study of uneasy relationships among the inhabitants of a tiny rural community....
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Jakoman and Tetsu
In a village subsisting on its herring fishery, a one-eyed criminal named Jakoman terrorizes the inh...
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Roughneck From Asama
When Boss Juzo's Shinmachi Yakuza family struck fear into the hearts of his adversaries, Boss Shohei...
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Sakura Official
As Japan’s Tokugawa shogunate nears the end of its rule, Edo North Magistrate Toyama no Kinsan is ca...
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The Shogun’s Guard, Shinsengumi
The Shinsengumi is a special unit of ronin commissioned by the Tokugawa shogunate to counter anti-sh...
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An Osaka Story
A poor peasant, after years of scraping, becomes a rich and powerful Osaka merchant. Mizoguchi Kenji...
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The Seven Vows
Toruhan, a king’s retainer, embarks on a journey to find a royal treasure that can only be revealed ...
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The Seven Vows, Part 2
The adventures of Goro and his fellow samurai continue in its second installment. While being held c...
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The Seven Vows, Part 3
The adventures of Goro and his fellow samurai concludes. After their turbulent journey, the seven cr...
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Secret of The Golden Spell
One of Japan’s most popular folklore characters, Tange Sazen, the one-eyed and one-armed swordsman, ...
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Secret Assignment
In the fourth film of series, Secret Assignment, Raizo again plays the Jiro Shiina. This time he's o...
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Runway to Hell
When Kaneko Ichinosuke aims to avenge his father who was wrongly accused of embezzlement, the samura...
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In Search of Mother
Period piece about a young man who, because of his hard life alone in the world, has become a yakuza...
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Our Happiness Alone
Mototsugu is the younger son of Akira Sakawa, a director of an advertising agency whose mother, Nobu...
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The Mansion of Intrigue
A swordsman must foil a minister's sinister plan to assassinate the shogun....
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Miyamoto Musashi IV: The Duel at Ichijo-ji Temple
In the fourth installment, Musashi's potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of the st...
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Heavenly Dragon
From the opening theme song to the grand finale, you know that you have found something special as t...
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Return of the One-Armed Swordsman
The legendary one-eyed one-armed swordsman Tange Sazen is back to aid a Magistrate in his efforts to...
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Bride of White Castle
A young girl, Okimi, falls in love with Kiritaro, a handsome thief disguised as a wealthy young mast...
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Travels of Hibari and Chiemi: The Tumultuous Journey
Playhouse employees Okimi and Otoshi become involved in an undercover officer’s investigation of a g...
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Tange Sazen and the Princess
Tange Sazen interferes with an evil plot against the Iga Yagyu family....
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The Ako Retainers
Toei’s 10th anniversary film, featuring an all-star cast from the golden movie era of the 1960s. A f...
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The Shogun’s Guard: Valor in Turbulence
The stormy tale of the Shinsengumi is told from its birth by master filmmaker Sasaki Yasushi, with a...
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Tange Sazen: Mystery of the Twin Dragons
In this film in the long running series, Tange Sazen and his friends are asked to guard a dragon-sha...
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Tengu Priest
Kichizaburo, a samurai keeping peace in Edo, helps a young geisha Kozome avenge her father’s death....
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Bloody Shuriken
Ronin samurai Ibuki-san enters a town and sells his skills to the warring families. He falls in love...
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Seven Masks of Revenge
The eighth film in the "master detective with seven faces" series. Bannachi patrols the town in his...
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The Yagyu Military Art: The Buried Conspiracy
Yagyu Jubei must protect the Yagyu scroll that holds the secret of the infamous assassination plotte...
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A Killer's Key
Raizô Ichikawa reprises his role as the restaurant-cook-turned-contract-killer in this sequel to Kaz...
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An Edo Magistrate
When a former artisan is tricked into putting his sister up as collateral for a loan by a gangster b...
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Unwieldy Brothers
Taisuke is kind-hearted but overall lacks ambition. Taizo is smarter, but given to fits of emotion a...
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Souls in the Moonlight
First part of the famous Dai-bosatsu toge trilogy, based on Kaizan Nakazato’s unfinished long series...
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Good Rascals
A group of men living a low life in Edo help each other to make the best out of their lives....
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The Mysterious Cape
Ryujin Misaki, located at the edge of the Genkai Sea, is known as an isolation ward for leprosy pati...
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Blooded Spear
Edo, 1703. Young Sugino, one of the 47 rōnin seeking revenge against lord Kira, who caused that his ...
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Souls in the Moonlight II
This is the second installment of the trilogy based on Japan’s greatest novel “The Great Bodhisattva...
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Souls in the Moonlight III
Master swordsman, Tsukue Ryunosuke is confronted by the families of his victims. Will justice be ser...
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The Naked Sun
A young, struggling couple are making every sacrifice so they will one day in the not-too-distant-fu...
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Rainbow Over Paris
A young composer falls in love with the beautiful daughter of a wealthy company president and flies ...
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Kazoku no sentaku
A single mother is being investigated into the death of her ex-husband, which brings to the fore the...
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Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 1 and 2
A young samurai learns that he is the illegitimate son of the Shogun. Hoping to reunite with his bir...
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The Big Boss
A shooting incident occurs at the Asahina family gambling hall in Tokyo's Joto district. It is the w...
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A Fishmonger's Tour
The supply of sea bream to the fish market has decreased, and the price has increased to a whopping ...
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Road In the Mist
Okinu, the beautiful daughter of a feudal lord, discovers her true identity and leaves her lavish li...
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Five Ronins
The story of five easygoing Yakuza who come together to save the live of a young innocent girl, Oich...
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The Master Spearman
This subversive period film features a hotheaded young samurai, Kurodo, who threatens to commit hara...
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Evil Man of Edo
A classic battle between good and evil pits an unscrupulous fortuneteller who has been preying on th...
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Morning Breeze in Edo
The sole survivor of a shipwreck pursues the whereabouts of his friends’ missing family members in E...
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The Flower and the Sword
A dangerous mobster threatens the life of a businessman's mother in this thriller. As Ryuji oversees...
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Bride of Peacock Castle
Princess Kazu, the daughter of Shogun Ienari, is sent to marry Matsudaira Nobunao, master of Peacock...
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Scarier than the Devil
A stage director who directs a “Mori no Ishimatsu” play time travels and becomes “Mori no Ishimatsu”...
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Case of a Young Lord 9: Black Camellia
Escaping the hustle and bustle of Edo, the Young Lord came to Oshima Island in Izu to take a vacatio...
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A Revengeful Raid
In this tale of bravery and honor among the roving gamblers of old Japan, the heroic Jirocho, Boss o...
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Bored Hatamoto: Island of No Return
Part of the Bored Hatamoto series. The most popular samurai in Edo, Saotome Mondonosuke, known to mo...
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Tokaido Fullhouse
When Kanbe Nagakichi has his turf taken over by Ano-Toku, the father-in-law of his sworn brother Kir...
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Mofuku no niau hitozuma futari
Yuki Kimura, a company president's secretary, agrees to marry his son Yutaka on the president's reco...
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Hawk of the North
During the latter part of the 16th Century, Japan's Warring States era was coming to a close. After ...
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Road of Chivalry
While on the road, famed Yakuza Boss Jirocho is falsely accused of starting a peasant's uprising and...
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Mighty Shosuke
A comedy about a free-spirited man Shosuke, whose life is turned upside down when he is ordered to s...
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The Shogun and the Fishmonger
Fishmonger Tasuke and Shogun Iemitsu swap their identities in pretence for the protection of Iemitsu...
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Jirocho' s Days of Youth: Whirlwind on the Tokaido
Adventures of famous yakuza boss Jirocho and his disciples who settle in Kofu....
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Mark of Blood
Three young yakuza, Fujitaro, Matsugoro and Kanjuro, travel the country fighting evil....
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The Lost Public Funds
Four thousand gold coins were stolen from the vault of Nijo Castle in Kyoto, which were collected as...
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Tsukigata Hanpeita
During the bloody era of the Tokugawa Shogunate collapse, a man appeared capable of overthrowing a c...
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Code of Ruffians
Because of trickery, the Jinya Group has only seven days to complete a mountain road project or it w...
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Paper Crane Palanquin
The death of a samurai in a palanquin leads girl detective Oshichi to take action to crush a plot to...
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Shimizu Port of Chivalry
An all-star cast highlights this Jidai-Geki classic. Set in the samurai era, this is the tale of per...
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Princess Yang Kwei-fei
In eighth century China, the Emperor is grieving over the death of his wife. The Yang family wants t...
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Case of a Young Lord 8
A family is brutally murdered in their own home and the official government's sake dealer is framed ...
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Lord Mito: All Star Version
In 1691 a terrible fire broke out in Denmacho, Yotsuya, burning down the towns around it, up to the ...
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Isshin Tasuke: A Man Among Men
In the third entry into this mega-hit series, Isshin Tasuke, a spirited fishmonger in Edo who looks ...
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Lord of Steel Heart
A Tokugawa Daimyo rebels against an his lord after the battle of Sekigahara. Samurai Matabei, a famo...
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Bloody Battle at Dawn
A story of revenge between two samurai families on the Igagoe Road. Araki Mataemon born in the provi...
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The Forbidden Castle
From an original story by Shibata Renzaburo, the novelist who created such classics as: the "Nemuri ...
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A Spectacular Showdown
One of the great stories from Japan’s rich history comes to life in this true tale of the bloody sho...
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Official with a Tattoo
Kinnosuke of Toyama sets out on a private mission to clear his father’s name for a crime he did not ...
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Pirates Magistrate
As it turns out, the evil hand of drugs has reached the inner palace of the Shogunate. It was though...
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The First Star of Happiness
A youth movie starring Miyoko Asada that depicts a cute and lovely 16 years old girl who lives a bri...
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The Samurai of Edo
This historical film depicts the life of a man who was at the mercy of the waves during transition f...
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Bored Hatamoto: The Daimonji Conspiracy
Master swordsman and loyal vassal Saotome Mondonosuke goes on a mission to find a missing princess....
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Kyukei no Koya
A film adaptation of Seicho Matsumoto's novel of the same title, starring Muga Takewaki and Yoko Shi...
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The Valley Between Love and Death
A great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that i...
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The Eternal Life
This moving movie depicts the preciousness of life through the interaction between a man with a dark...
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Black Strait
Newly out of prison after killing his boss' rival, Akio Maki is eager to move on and start a new lif...
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Benten Kozo
Orphaned Kiku was raised at a Buddhist temple and learned theatrical arts and martial arts as a chil...
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His Pistol is Hell
"Masayoshi Ryanko" jumps into the den of the underworld swirling with smuggling and murder, and defe...
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