Shinnosuke is introduced to Shizu as a prospective marriage partner, but he falls in love with her widowed sister Oyu. Read More »
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Red Peony Gambler: Biographies of a Gambling Room (1969) Kôsaku Yamashita, Bin Amatsu, Hiroshi Arikawa, Daisuke Awaji
After collecting her sickly follower from jail, Oryu is taken in by a fishing village. Read More »
Red Peony Gambler: Second Generation Ceremony (1969) Shigehiro Ozawa, Bin Amatsu, Kanjûrô Arashi, Masaharu Arikawa
The industrial revolution comes to Japan with the introduction of the railroad system. Read More »
High School Ghosthustlers (1995) Yoshinari Nishikôri, Mitsuko Abe, Gô Awazu, Glover
The GhostHustlers are three beautiful female students Kyoko, Mayu and Emi who fight evil spirits at Onin High School. Read More »
The Fencing Master (1962) Shunkai Mizuho, Raizô Ichikawa, Ganjirô Nakamura, Kinuyo Tanaka
The Fencing Master tells the story of a man trying to survive as the only world he knows is becoming increasingly irrelevant. Read More »
The 47 Ronin (1941) Kenji Mizoguchi, Chôjûrô Kawarasaki, Yoshizaburo Arashi, Utaemon Ichikawa
In 1701, Lord Takuminokami Asano has a feud with Lord Kira and he tries to kill Kira in the corridors of the Shogun’s palace. Read More »
Funky Forest: The First Contact (2005) Katsuhito Ishii, Hajime Ishimine, Andrew Alfieri, Hideaki Anno, Moyoco Anno
An outrageous collection of surreal, short attention span non-sequiturs largely revolving around Guitar Brother Read More »
Crest of Betrayal (1994) Kinji Fukasaku, Kôichi Satô, Saki Takaoka, Keiko Oginome
When Tamiya Iyemon joins the Asano Clan, he brings with him a legacy of death. Read More »
Heartless (1968) Mio Ezaki, Tetsuya Watari, Chieko Matsubara, Kôji Wada, Hiroshi Nawa
Known as one of the pioneers to establish the Nikkatsu “mood action” genre, Mio Ezaki incorporates road movie scenes with a new theme song sung by Tetsuya Watari Read More »
Hill of No Return (1992) Tung Wang, Xianmei Chen, Pin-Yuan Huang, Chang-Bin Jen
In the 1920’s, when Taiwan is Japan’s colony, the small town Chiu-Fen was famous of its gold mines. Read More »
Marquis de Sades Prosperities of Vice (1988) Akio Jissôji, Yasumi Hara, Renji Ishibashi, Seiran Li
An obsession with the life and works of the Marquis de Sade leads a depraved, 1920s-era Japanese count down the path of tragedy and self-destruction in this erotic drama. Read More »
The Victory of Women (1946) Kenji Mizoguchi, Kinuyo Tanaka, Michiko Kuwano, Mitsuko Miura
A socially committed film about the feudal state of many Japanese women in 1946. Read More »
Outlaw: Rub-out! (1969) Keiichi Ozawa, Eiji Gô, Kenji Imai, Chieko Matsubara, Gorô Mutsumi
New force joins the creators of the “Outlaw” series in this final installment. Read More »
Age Of Nudity (1959) Seijun Suzuki, Keiichirô Akagi, Kyôko Hori, Bokuzen Hidari
The story deals with a juvenile delinquent gang surviving through petty thievery. Read More »
Blood of Revenge (1965) Tai Katô, Kôji Tsuruta, Junko Fuji, Tetsurô Tanba
Osaka, 1907: Asajiro lives between a rock and a hard place: he has to keep his business clean and running Read More »