Kikuko Hojo Movies

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

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...

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

Japanese crime film

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

Bored Hatamoto movie #29

1962 Japanese movie

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

An eroticized adaptation of Murasaki Shikibu's classic novel, written over 1000 years ago. Genji, the son of the emperor, has gained renown among the...

Two brothers, Takamaru and Kikumaru, are living with their father, Hakuraku-Ou, until one day Hakuraku-Ou is killed by "Death's-Head" Ginnosuke, a...

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

1961 Japanese movie

Japanese horror film directed by Tsuneo Kobayashi.