Bontarō Miake Movies

Gotō Matabei is the most able and fierce samurai of the Kuroda clan. However, he gradually dislikes the ruthless personality of Kuroda Nagamasa...

After a businessman is murdered, an investigation identifies a suspect who is then put on trial for that crime.

Ichiro’s family used to be a large landowner, but now he is living in poverty with his mother. His mother works hard to get her son through...

1959 youth comedy.

A classic melodramatic love tragedy addressing social inequality in Taishō-era Japan, The nostalgic scenes of 1920s Tokyo provides a valuable...

Late romance by acclaimed filmmaker Kinugasa Teinosuke.

Tomotaka Tasaka's earliest surviving surviving film is a powerful adaptation of Hector Malot's "Nobody's Girl".

The southern tip of Shikoku. This village, surrounded by a bay, where, according to legend, the former warriors of the Heike clan settled, is famous...

1948 adaptation of Golden Devil, part 2

Detective Katahachi meets a young and beautiful pickpocket and doesn’t arrest her because she was not in the act. Instead, he listens to the...

A mystery story set on a haunted island: a student is murdered, followed by the suicide of his lover.

Adaptation of the Yukio Mishima novel.

Tai Kato’s early 20th century set yakuza epic about an ordinary merchant girl (Hiroko Maki) who crosses paths with an assassin (Tetsuya...

Obscure Masumura film shot in 1961.

A war breaks out on the streets between rivaling Yakuza clans.