Movies

Frankie Sakai plays a Chino-Japanese man who after trudging along in odd jobs discovers his true talent in making excellent, tasty and somewhat spicy...

1948 adaptation of Golden Devil

1953 Hiroshi Inagaki movie.

Part one of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation.

Prosecutor Ishigami, who had stepped forward to protect the citizens from the Murata family, the town’s power brokers, found himself assigned...

This most celebrated all-star movie version of the popular series features Tsukigata Ryunosuke as Mito Komon, the sage who wanders the countryside...

Sixth film in the ‘Travels of Lord Mito’ franchise.

The tale of Katakana Yonetaro aka "The Shark," a rough-and-tumble horse trader in Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido, despite being a father and...

A story of young people in the immediate aftermath of World War II, their post-war careers, sorrows, and triumphs.

Yata, a boatman from Edo who is manipulated by the conspiracy of the Dewa Rokugo clan, is the spitting image of the young lord Yoshimitsu. The two...

Fifth film in the 'Travels of Lord Mito' franchise.

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

A lost film by Masahiro Makino

Princess Yuzuki, the only daughter of Moonlight Castle had no shortage of people asking for her hand. Finally, unable to bear it any longer, the...

The story opens in October of 1624 when the newly appointed Shogun Iemitsu visits the famed Kan-ei temple. On his way the procession is disrupted...