Isao Yamagata

AKA: 山形勋, Isao Yamagata
1.4471

1915-07-25

London, England, UK

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {222}

Samurai

1954-04-26 8.5

Seven Samurai

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend ...
Genre :Action, Drama

1963-07-13 0

20 Duels of Young Shingo - Conclusion

While on his journey through the countryside of Japan, Shingo encounters many people whose lives have been affected by his actions. Though the many duels he fought were intended to bring justice to th ...
Genre :Action, Drama, History

Shobei Tsuchiya

1967-05-27 8.2

Samurai Rebellion

The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. The husband and his samurai father must decide whether to accept the unjust decision, or risk death to get her b ...
Genre :Drama, History, Action

1957-10-29 0

Shadow Over Fuji

The year is 1805. Napoleon ruled Europe. Ienari is the 11th Tokugawa Shogun. An incident, which was an open official secret, took place on the foothills of Mt. Fuji. Fearing attacks from within and wi ...
Genre :Drama, History

1958-10-22 5.7

Isshin Tasuke: A World in Danger

Tasuke stumbles across Kokichi, a distraught man whom having lost his fiancee to Lord Kawakatsu is ready to commit suicide. Tasuke learns that Kokichi's fiancee, Otoyo, was a chambermaid whom Kawakats ...
Genre :Action, Comedy

1960-03-27 0

Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 3

The adventures of Aoi Shingo continue. Shingo is finally given permission to officially meet his father, the Shogun. However, his journey is disturbed by those who wish to claim his life. This is the ...
Genre :Drama

Sawatari Genba

1972-09-02 7.1

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 leader to kill an evil chamberlain. ...
Genre :Drama, Action, Adventure

1959-10-18 0

53 Stages of the Road

An Edo appointed official Baba must ensure the safe delivery of shogunate funds to Kyoto. ...
Genre :Drama

Tatewaki

1958-04-30 5

Seven from Edo

When Katsukawa, a low ranking vassal, learns that his greedy superior, Tatewaki, has hatched a plan to expand his territory, he and his comrades decide to take matters into their own hands. Lots of ac ...
Genre :Drama

1959-01-03 0

Diary of a Wandering Lord

Two thrill seeking young lords sneak out of their castles and travel under the disguise of townsmen. ...
Genre :

1960-05-22 0

Ooka Seidan: Devil Image

Magistrate Ooka and a samurai fight against evil forces. ...
Genre :Drama

Wataru Watanabe

1953-10-30 7.1

Gate of Hell

Japan, 1159. Moritō, a brave samurai, performs a heroic act by rescuing the lovely Kesa during a violent uprising. Moritō falls in love with her, but becomes distraught when he finds out that she is m ...
Genre :Drama, History, Romance

Conspiracy commander

1951-04-14 0

The Man Without a Nationality

Thriller drama by Kon Ichikawa ...
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Director of the Faculty of Arts

1951-06-08 0

Stolen Love

Romantic melodrama ...
Genre :Romance

Master Sergeant Kenhei

1951-10-19 0

Bengawan Solo

War film by Kon Ichikawa ...
Genre :

1957-12-28 0

Glorious Standard Bearer

Hashizo Okawa in the form of a courageous firefighter who confronts unscrupulous traders who make a profit even at the cost of human lives. A fireman exposes the corrupt activities of merchants. ...
Genre :

1962-04-08 5.5

Kisaragi Sword

The story concerns the efforts of seven master swordsman who join together to protect the new inexperienced Shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune from the evil plans of the Owari Clan's corrupt Lord. It's a color ...
Genre :Action

1963-09-14 0

Blackmail

Genre :Crime

1959-07-12 8.1

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 sea of trouble when he gets involved in the succession of the Takamatsu clan. The usurpers try by ever ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama

1956-07-12 0

Bored Hatamoto: The Mysterious Ghost Ship

Bored Hatamoto film #20 ...
Genre :Action, History

1954-11-22 7

Fall of the Shogun's Militia

Kondo Isami, the “Devil” commander of the Shinsengumi was one of Japan’s greatest national heroes and a peerless swordsman who devoted his life to protecting the shogun and fighting on the side of the ...
Genre :History

Boss Tohachi

1966-08-12 7.1

Zatoichi's Pilgrimage

Zatoichi's trek through 88 temples to atone for his violent past is interrupted as he stumbles into a village terrorized by a violent yakuza boss. ...
Genre :Drama, Action, Adventure

1959-06-01 0

Hell's Companion

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Daigo Hamada

1982-09-22 5.8

The Trout

The sexual and social dysfunctional behaviour of the corporate elite are further aggravated when a naive married woman becomes the obsession of two wealthy suitors. ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

Sugio Iba

1955-01-15 7.68

Floating Clouds

A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. He doesn't and after the war, she turns up and the affa ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

1959-03-03 5.6

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 magistrates pursue the leads to solve the crime and it leads to a potential conspiracy to kill the Shogun. ...
Genre :History, Mystery, Action

Minister of War

1962-08-22 0

Mid-August Commotion

A suspense work based on the "Miyagi Incident," an attempted coup d'etat led by some officers working for the Ministry of the Defense and the General Staff of the Konoe Division on the eve of the end ...
Genre :

Ogata, Seizo

1971-08-12 5.8

Kaoyaku

A detective is charged with investigating a bank corruption scandal. ...
Genre :

1962-05-20 0

あの空の果てに星はまたたく

1962 Japanese movie ...
Genre :

Denzo Hashimoto

1965-11-23 6.167

A Story Written with Water

Struggling with his true emotions, dreams, memories of the past and the reality Shizuo is about to marry, but is torn between his wife-to-be and the love to his mother. ...
Genre :Drama

1954-09-14 0

Jinsei Gekijo Yokubo hen: sanshu kirako

1954 Theater of Life adaptation. ...
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Dr. Matsuda

1956-01-27 5.2

Warning from Space

Large star-shaped aliens travel to earth in hopes of warning them about an oncoming catastrophe. To prevent panic about their appearance, one alien takes the form of a popular singer. ...
Genre :Science Fiction, Horror

Asaichi Isobe

1954-01-03 0

Hanran

Genre :Drama, History

1982-08-13 0

A Ghost Love Story of Japan

A daughter of Hatamoto (high-ranked soldier) Otsuyu (Akiko Kana) and a Ronin living in Choya (cheap apartment) Shinzaburo Hagihara (Yoichi Hayashi) fell in love with each other. They could not see eac ...
Genre :Horror, TV Movie

山田宗円

1955-10-30 0

Ejima and Ikushima

This period film is inspired by one of the most notorious scandals to have taken place in Edo-period Japan. The heroine, Ejima, was a lady of the Ooku, the harem of Edo Castle in which the Shogun’s mo ...
Genre :Drama

1954-10-20 5

The Princess Sen

During the Warring States era of early 17th century Japan, teenage princess Sen is besieged with other members of her family in Osaka Castle, by a rival force led by her grandfather. ...
Genre :History

1953-10-21 7.6

The Eagle of the Pacific

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war with the United States. He opposes the attack on Pe ...
Genre :Drama, War

1968-12-28 0

I Shall Not Forget

Hearing that his friend Yosuke Tsumura had died, Shiro Okabe returned to Kyoto. He felt that Yusuke's wife, Yusuke Tsumura's former love Yuko, knew something about Yosuke's death, but he was unable to ...
Genre :Action, Drama

Juzaburo Tsutaya

1968-08-22 0

Where did Sharaku go?

Writer Jippensha Ikku hears Tsutaya Juzaburo, a wholesaler of picture books, mutter on his deathbed, "Where has Sharaku gone?" He begins to figure out the true identity of Sharaku, who disappeared aft ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

1965-01-03 10

The Radish and the Carrot

One day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled company funds. To save the situation he withdraws his life savings and gives money to his younger brother. H ...
Genre :Comedy

1955-06-21 0

Murder on The Last Train

One of the earliest Japanese cop films following a mysterious killing on the last train to Mitaka, Tokyo. ...
Genre :Mystery

1962-05-09 0

Abekobe dōchū

Genre :

1956-11-20 0

Red-Lacquered Sword

Genre :Action, History

1958-09-23 0

Epic Crash

Utaemon Ichikawa plays the role of Hikoshiro Navate, who has a strong sense of justice and opposes power and tyranny with his will and spirit. ...
Genre :Drama

Kenichiro Shinjo

1968-03-11 0

Eternal Love

The love story of an aspiring architect and a charcoal-making daughter, who discover that they are actually brother and sister. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

1957-07-09 0

悪魔の顔

Genre :

1955-09-28 0

The Dawn of Judo

Genre :

1962-09-30 0

Tekka Wakashū

1962 Japanese movie ...
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Deputy Kabayama

1953-04-29 0

The Tragic General: Yamashita Tomoyuki

When Japan entered into the great tragedy that was unforgettable, the general general of the history of the Ming Dynasty, hokudai Yamashita, left the Malay front and occupied Singapore at once, and wa ...
Genre :Drama, War

1962-05-16 0

Genkuro Yoshitsune

An exciting historical drama that dynamically depicts the life of Minamoto no Yoshitsune from the period of his stay on Mount Kurama to his reconciliation with his brother Yoritomo. ...
Genre :Drama, History

1958-10-01 6

The Abandoned Swords

Best friends Gentaro and Sanpei become fateful enemies when Sanpei steals a secret document revealing the identity of the chosen successor to the Tokugawa Shogun. Gentaro of the Owari clan sets out to ...
Genre :Drama

1962-11-11 0

Jigoku no kagebōshi

1962 Japanese movie ...
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1963-02-17 6

Street of Wandering Men

When a group of men from the Hanya clan search his town for a missing geisha, a brave ronin decides to help her and a drunken calligrapher. In doing so, he uncovers a wider scheme. ...
Genre :Action, Drama

1956-10-09 6.7

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. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

1962-11-17 0

Waka zakura kenka matoi

1962 Japanese movie ...
Genre :

1960-12-27 0

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 on the Tokaido Road. The fearless Kinnosuke Nakamura enthusiastically plays the young Jirocho from S ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, History

1957-10-08 0

Goblin's Highway

Gombei is Nameless, a wanderer who is skilled with a sword and has a great sense of humor, who tries to save the good people of the Kiso Valley, he gets into a fight with local bad bosses who behave b ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama

Higashiko Fujita

1958-03-25 0

Aoi Secret Book

A Golden Age drama depicting the exploits of passionate patriot Uotaro Toge in the midst of a mysterious standoff over the Secret Book of Aoi, which will determine the rise or fall of the 350,000-koku ...
Genre :Drama, Thriller, History

1958-11-05 0

Kanbei's Bargain Sale

Wandering swordsman Kanbei, parading through town with a sign that reads "Seeking fights, selling my life cheap." One day, he receives a request from the star of the daughter's kabuki, Nakamura Tsuruk ...
Genre :Romance, Drama

Shinzo Nakajima

1965-04-02 0

Twilight of Tokyo

A romance that follows the men in the life of Kyoko a Travel Agent working for New Japan Travel Service. ...
Genre :Drama

1958-08-12 5

Bored Hatamoto: Idle Vassal Tribute

Master swordsman and loya 'Hatamoto' (direct vassal to the Shogun), Saotome Mondonosuke, is sent to investigate an intrigue centering on the Date Clan. The 300th film in the long and illustrious caree ...
Genre :Action, Drama

1955-06-05 0

Six Assassins

Genre :Drama

1956-01-29 0

Samurai of the Great Earth

A film adaptation of Rikuo Honjo's novel "Ishikari River". ...
Genre :Action

1960-06-29 6

Ninja Assassins

Saotome Mondonosuke pursues the culprit who placed a malicious curse upon Shogun Tsunekichi. ...
Genre :Action

Gemba Akahana

1957-09-23 0

Ghost Ship Part 1

As Part I opens, Jubei (Denjiro Okochi), the best of sea skippers, is unable to overcome the stormy seas of Luzon. All hands on board the Kannonmaru were lost except for Shinkei, who alone made his wa ...
Genre :Adventure, Fantasy, Horror

1955-03-06 0

Ooka Seidan: Defense of The Weak Pt. 2

Masanori Igayama, who directed "Mito Komon Manyuki: The Counterattack of Toukuzaki," will direct the screenplay by Shinji Tsugei, who also directed "Ah Toyamaru," and Hiroshi Fukushima, who worked on ...
Genre :

1962-12-23 0

Case of a Young Lord 10: The Mystery of the Spider Lady

Young lord investigates the mysterious death that takes place in the underworld. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Nagoe Gisen

1956-01-29 0

Lightning Karate Blow

Ken Takakura's screen debut, following his admission into Toei ranks via the studio's annual New Faces program, came surprisingly enough in this pair of Okinawa karate films. The two-parter was releas ...
Genre :Action

1961-08-13 0

Himalayan Wanderer

One after another, expedition teams were being attacked in the Himalayas. With the unprecedented boom in snow men, the public began to make a fuss about the fact that the monster that attacked them mu ...
Genre :

Hiroe Yamada

1970-02-14 7.2

The Ambitious

The story of Ryoma Sakamoto, considered to be the architect behind the downfall of the Tokugawa shogunate. He was considered an outlaw by his own clan, hunted by his government, and was despised by su ...
Genre :Action, Adventure, Drama

1955-03-13 0

Japan Samurai: Niiro Tsuruchiyo

An adaptation of the famous novel by Jiromasa Gunji about the difficult story of Niiro Tsuruchiyo, the illegitimate son of the great elder of the Bakumatsu era, Ii Naosuke. This masterpiece depicts th ...
Genre :Drama

1959-04-01 0

House of Spider Webs

Based on the original story by Seishi Yokomizo, House of Spider Webs is a gorgeous historical drama thriller starring Kinnosuke Nakamura and directed by Tadashi Sawashima. ...
Genre :Mystery

1975-04-01 0

雪夫人繪圖

1975 Toei movie. ...
Genre :Drama

Motoi

1960-08-24 6.5

The Sand City in Manchuria

When the plague threatens a small town in Manchuria, a young doctor finds himself struggling to save the lives of his townspeople. ...
Genre :Drama

1964-03-01 7

The Third Ninja

Three Iga ninja are on a hunt for Chidoken, a Takeda ninja sent out to assasinate Lord Nobunaga. ...
Genre :Drama, Action, Comedy, Family, Adventure

1956-11-14 0

The Boy Detectives Club – The Devil with Twenty Faces

Second film in the Boy Detectives Club series. ...
Genre :Mystery

1962-08-12 6

The Phantom Goblin

An injured Edo official is rescued by a vassal whose appearance is exactly like himself, and swears to sweep out the criminals from the town on his behalf. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

1966-02-25 0

A World For Two

On a passenger ship to Japan, the journalist Kawase encounters a man who claims to be a Filipino, but Kawase believes he is a murder suspect who fled Japan fifteen years ago, Hojo Shuichi. To throw Ka ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

1961-05-31 0

A Fishwife's Tale

Hibari Misora plays Yoshiko, the popular daughter of a fish market owner. After discovering that she was adopted, she sets out to help her biological father who has fallen victim to an evil plot orche ...
Genre :Comedy

1958-02-05 6

Noble Tasuke

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 when a small child runs into the street, a crime punis ...
Genre :Action

Tatsuo Yasuda

1958-11-11 6

Points and Lines

Based on Matsumoto Seicho's classic mystery novel of the same name, the story centers around a group of detectives who are determined to find the truth behind an apparent double suicide. ...
Genre :Crime

1962-09-16 6

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 charged again with the task of protecting the Yagyu Secret Scrolls. The two scrolls are held in sepa ...
Genre :Action, Drama

1982-01-01 0

Kaidan botandōrō

Japanese horror movie from 1982. ...
Genre :Horror

1953-04-15 6.5

Mr. Pu

A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl. ...
Genre :Comedy

Date Masamune

1963-02-23 6

Yagyu Military Art: Jubei's Redemption

In the fifth installment, Yagyu Jubei must prove the innocence of his family who is suspected of conspiring to take Shogun's life. ...
Genre :

Magistrate

1955-10-11 0

Christ in Bronze

Christian converts face persecution in the feudal society of 17th century Japan. ...
Genre :Drama

Father Shuhei

1954-12-29 6

Three Loves

In a mountain village, Heita, a translator's son, is a gifted boy but is shunned by the villagers. He can imitate birds' cry and befriends another boy who works in a brewery. Heita also finds solace i ...
Genre :Drama

Shozaburo Sado

1961-10-22 0

Feisty Edo Girl Nakanori-san

Daughter of a lumber shop in Edo strives to protect her family business from the competitor. Sado Masasaburo, the founder of Sado Masa, one of the oldest lumber merchants in Kiba, has recently become ...
Genre :Comedy

1960-03-01 6

Case of Umon: Hell’s Windmill

Umon’s services are called upon when innocent bystanders, Kayo and Minokichi, along with the ronin, Gontaro are mistakenly identified as suspects in several recent murder cases. To prove their innocen ...
Genre :History, Mystery, Action

Chief Inspector Ozawa

1960-04-26 6

The Man of Seven Faces

Detective Tarao investigates the deaths of police officers who were involved in solving a kidnapping case. ...
Genre :Mystery

1961-01-15 6

Case of Umon: The Nanbanzame Murders

The serial killing of a samurai each night by strangulation at various temples confounds investigators and brings a chill to the residents of Edo. With the capital on edge, master crimefighter Kondo U ...
Genre :History, Mystery, Action

1956-07-05 0

The Swamp

A man’s wife dies in a swamp. Her ghost returns to haunt him. ...
Genre :Horror, Drama

Kadoi

1958-01-03 7

A Chivalrous Spirit

An all-star cast highlights this Jidai-Geki classic. Set in the samurai era, this is the tale of period Yakuza. One of the real classics in this genre. Jirocho, an honorable and respected gang boss, u ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

1961-02-07 0

Edo Purebreed

Action and adventure abound in this story of friendship between two rival firefighters, Kichigoro and Jirokichi in old Japan. When Mukai Sadayu, the vassal of Kaga Clan's accounting officer, Shinagawa ...
Genre :Action, Drama

1957-01-15 0

Bored Hatamoto: Mysterious Crimson Tower

Bored Hatamoto film #21 ...
Genre :Action, History

1965-06-12 6.25

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 films! This film tells the story of Saizo’s son, Kirigakure Saisuke, who after seeing his father die ...
Genre :Action

1961-04-25 0

Mask of the Moon

Young swordsman, Tsukigata Hanpeita, longs for the day when rival clans cease their struggles for power and put an end to meaningless feudal wars. When he is appointed to oversee the Choshu Clan, he t ...
Genre :Action, Drama

Sarashina Danjo

1956-10-31 0

Ninja's Weapon

During a time of war, Lord Ogata is betrayed by two of his closest vassals and killed by his enemy, Sarashina Danjo. Ten years later, Lord Ogata's only living heir, now a skilled ninja, uses sorcery t ...
Genre :Action

1960-01-27 6

The Second Bullet is Marked

Tsunokichi and Ken face off against a rival yakuza in Kyushu. ...
Genre :Action, Crime

Shu

1961-08-13 0

Officer Morgan and a Man of Mystery

Detective Morgan and the Japanese police cooperate to unveil the truth of the mysterious death of Morgan’s friend in Arizona. ...
Genre :Action

President Chin

1962-04-22 6

G-Men in the Pacific

G-men challenge a jewelry smuggling ring. The chase starts in Kyushu and continues to Kobe to Yokohama. ...
Genre :Crime

1957-03-04 6.4

Rice

A touching story depicting the harsh lives of farmers in Kasumigaura. An attempt to start a fishery business to revive an ailing farming community creates friction amongst the proud residents. ...
Genre :Drama

1959-01-09 5.8

The Acrobats of Death

Saotome, a sword master and guard of the Shogunate, pursues the mystery of a deadly aerial weapon that is responsible for the multiple deaths in town. ...
Genre :History, Action

1955-09-13 5.2

Marital Relations

The story of a couple, a spoiled son and a down-to-earth girl, in Osaka in the early Showa era. The film won the prestigious Blue Ribbon awards for best director, best actor (Morishige) and best actre ...
Genre :Drama

1957-11-26 0

The Unbalanced Wheel

A study of uneasy relationships among the inhabitants of a tiny rural community. ...
Genre :Drama

Kyubei

1964-02-08 6

Jakoman and Tetsu

In a village subsisting on its herring fishery, a one-eyed criminal named Jakoman terrorizes the inhabitants. One of them, the son of the head of one of the fish companies by the name of Tetsu, decide ...
Genre :Drama

Toragoro

1958-12-02 6.6

Roughneck From Asama

When Boss Juzo's Shinmachi Yakuza family struck fear into the hearts of his adversaries, Boss Shohei's Okabe Yakuza family with a merciless gang of raiders, Itaro of Asama was missing. With the courag ...
Genre :Action, Crime, Drama

1962-02-28 6

Sakura Official

As Japan’s Tokugawa shogunate nears the end of its rule, Edo North Magistrate Toyama no Kinsan is called upon to judge the most difficult case of his career. In a masterfully woven tale, he has to fac ...
Genre :History, War

Hijikata Toshizo

1958-07-13 8

The Shogun’s Guard, Shinsengumi

The Shinsengumi is a special unit of ronin commissioned by the Tokugawa shogunate to counter anti-shogunate activities in Kyoto. A sinister plot to overthrow the shogun is set in motion and Kondo Isam ...
Genre :Action

1957-03-06 5.4

An Osaka Story

A poor peasant, after years of scraping, becomes a rich and powerful Osaka merchant. Mizoguchi Kenji's final project; he died before completing it and directing duties turned over to Yoshimura Kozabur ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

1961-09-23 0

Whistling Drifter

Friendship between good samurais and aborigines in Hokkaido. ...
Genre :

Nyudo Ichimonji

1956-12-26 7

The Seven Vows

Toruhan, a king’s retainer, embarks on a journey to find a royal treasure that can only be revealed though secret codes hidden in seven crosses carried by his fellow samurai. ...
Genre :Adventure

Mine Tanba

1958-03-18 5.8

Secret of The Golden Spell

One of Japan’s most popular folklore characters, Tange Sazen, the one-eyed and one-armed swordsman, must rescue the Yagyu clan from the treachery of a master plotting to take control over a sword figh ...
Genre :Drama, Action

1957-01-03 7

The Seven Vows, Part 2

The adventures of Goro and his fellow samurai continue in its second installment. While being held captive by the enemy pirate Ongo, Goro discovers the whereabouts of the missing seventh cross. Will h ...
Genre :Adventure

1957-01-09 7

The Seven Vows, Part 3

The adventures of Goro and his fellow samurai concludes. After their turbulent journey, the seven crosses are finally united to reveal the secret of the royal treasure. ...
Genre :Adventure

Takakura

1967-06-17 10

Secret Assignment

In the fourth film of series, Secret Assignment, Raizo again plays the Jiro Shiina. This time he's out to discover who is spying for the British in the Foreign Ministry, under the code name “Cat's Eye ...
Genre :Action, War, Mystery

1960-05-03 6.5

Runway to Hell

When Kaneko Ichinosuke aims to avenge his father who was wrongly accused of embezzlement, the samurai Kochiyama Soshun agrees to assist. ...
Genre :Action, Drama

Yosuke

1962-01-14 6

In Search of Mother

Period piece about a young man who, because of his hard life alone in the world, has become a yakuza. When he hears that his mother may be living in Edo (Tokyo), he travels there, intent on finding he ...
Genre :Drama

Akira Sakawa

1964-03-29 0

Our Happiness Alone

Mototsugu is the younger son of Akira Sakawa, a director of an advertising agency whose mother, Nobuko, is ill with cancer of the liver. His elder brother, Ichiro, works at the Bank of Japan whose wif ...
Genre :

Yoshiyasu (Yanagisawa Mino-no-Kami)

1957-12-28 0

The Mansion of Intrigue

A swordsman must foil a minister's sinister plan to assassinate the shogun. ...
Genre :Action, Comedy

1964-01-01 7

Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijo Temple

In the fourth installment, Musashi's potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of the story at the oddest and most coincidental moments. As his great love Otsu has succumbed to madness. Mu ...
Genre :Action, Drama, History

Iidaya Kumagoro

1960-10-23 6

Heavenly Dragon

From the opening theme song to the grand finale, you know that you have found something special as this exciting movie stars the great Misora Hibari in one of her most memorable performances as she pl ...
Genre :

1960-01-15 5.8

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 steal bribe money on its way to Edo for the benefit to poor farmers. ...
Genre :Drama, Action

1962-01-03 8.5

Travels of Hibari and Chiemi: The Tumultuous Journey

Playhouse employees Okimi and Otoshi become involved in an undercover officer’s investigation of a gang when they accidentally walk in on a drug deal taking place at their theater. ...
Genre :Adventure, Comedy, Music

1961-05-17 6

Bride of White Castle

A young girl, Okimi, falls in love with Kiritaro, a handsome thief disguised as a wealthy young master. ...
Genre :Drama, Adventure

Yagyu Tsushima-no-kami

1961-05-03 5.2

Tange Sazen and the Princess

Tange Sazen interferes with an evil plot against the Iga Yagyu family. ...
Genre :

Serizawa Kamo

1960-07-10 5.2

The Shogun’s Guard: Valor in Turbulence

The stormy tale of the Shinsengumi is told from its birth by master filmmaker Sasaki Yasushi, with an all-star cast based on the original story by Shirai Kyoji. The battles between the royalists and S ...
Genre :Action, Drama, History

1961-03-28 5.2

The Ako Retainers

Toei’s 10th anniversary film, featuring an all-star cast from the golden movie era of the 1960s. A famous story of the 47 loyal samurai. When Lord Asano is unjustly executed, his loyal retainers strik ...
Genre :Action, Drama

1962-11-02 0

Tengu Priest

Kichizaburo, a samurai keeping peace in Edo, helps a young geisha Kozome avenge her father’s death. ...
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1959-01-03 5

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-shaped incense burner that holds the key to hidden treasures. This is the most exciting film in the ser ...
Genre :

1965-02-20 7.3

Bloody Shuriken

Ronin samurai Ibuki-san enters a town and sells his skills to the warring families. He falls in love with the beautiful horse stable owner but like all heroes, cannot stay. ...
Genre :Drama, Action

1955-07-12 0

Seven Masks of Revenge

The eighth film in the "master detective with seven faces" series. Bannachi patrols the town in his taxi when he sees a man heading into Shiodome Town. Next day the man is found brutally murdered an ...
Genre :Mystery

1963-08-07 6

The Yagyu Military Art: The Buried Conspiracy

Yagyu Jubei must protect the Yagyu scroll that holds the secret of the infamous assassination plotted by the Tokugawa government 30 years ago. ...
Genre :

Hojo

1967-12-02 7.5

A Killer's Key

Raizô Ichikawa reprises his role as the restaurant-cook-turned-contract-killer in this sequel to Kazuo Mori's stylish 1967 thriller A Certain Killer. ...
Genre :Thriller, Crime

1961-03-12 5.8

An Edo Magistrate

When a former artisan is tricked into putting his sister up as collateral for a loan by a gangster boss in a crooked gambling casino it sets in motion the story of Ooka Echizen, the famed magistrate o ...
Genre :

1960-06-05 0

Unwieldy Brothers

Taisuke is kind-hearted but overall lacks ambition. Taizo is smarter, but given to fits of emotion and impulsive violence. The samurai brothers fight against corruption in a castle. ...
Genre :History, Action

Lord Kamio

1957-07-13 6.2

Souls in the Moonlight

First part of the famous Dai-bosatsu toge trilogy, based on Kaizan Nakazato’s unfinished long series of novels (41 books, written from 1913 to 1941). Set in the last period of the Tokugawa Shogunate, ...
Genre :Drama

Kouchiyama Sotoshi

1962-01-14 6

Good Rascals

A group of men living a low life in Edo help each other to make the best out of their lives. ...
Genre :Comedy

1959-11-01 7.5

Blooded Spear

Edo, 1703. Young Sugino, one of the 47 rōnin seeking revenge against lord Kira, who caused that his master, Asano of Ako, committed seppuku, meets a skillful spear fighter, Genban, who trains him to f ...
Genre :Drama, Action

1963-01-09 6

The Mysterious Cape

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 the Shogun, hears news of a doctor gone missing, he ...
Genre :Action, Drama

Kamio Shuzen

1958-04-20 6.6

Souls in the Moonlight II

This is the second installment of the trilogy based on Japan’s greatest novel “The Great Bodhisattva Pass”, following the life and times of bloodthirsty samurai, Tsukue Ryunosuke. Blinded in an explos ...
Genre :Action, Drama

Kamio Shuzen

1959-04-28 6.6

Souls in the Moonlight III

Master swordsman, Tsukue Ryunosuke is confronted by the families of his victims. Will justice be served for the lost innocent lives? The conclusion of the famed Jidaigeki series is an amazing film, wi ...
Genre :Drama

1958-10-01 0

The Naked Sun

A young, struggling couple are making every sacrifice so they will one day in the not-too-distant-future, have enough money to get married. As they have agreed on this procedure, it comes as a shock t ...
Genre :Drama

Tetsuji Minagawa

1970-03-18 0

Rainbow Over Paris

A young composer falls in love with the beautiful daughter of a wealthy company president and flies to Paris when he learns she is studying music there. But, when he finally wins her after many diffic ...
Genre :Drama, Music

Kohei Okido

1983-11-08 0

Kazoku no sentaku

A single mother is being investigated into the death of her ex-husband, which brings to the fore the obscure details of her past. ...
Genre :Crime

1959-01-01 0

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 birth father, he travels to Edo to find Shogun Yoshimune. ...
Genre :Action, History

1963-04-12 0

The Big Boss

A shooting incident occurs at the Asahina family gambling hall in Tokyo's Joto district. It is the work of Gaijin boss Brown and his henchman Yamaoka, whose territory is in the Jonan district, in resp ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

1963-01-15 0

A Fishmonger's Tour

The supply of sea bream to the fish market has decreased, and the price has increased to a whopping 1 ryo, and unable to face his customers openly anymore, Tasuke closes the shop and goes on a trip to ...
Genre :Drama

Nizaemon

1963-04-06 5

Road In the Mist

Okinu, the beautiful daughter of a feudal lord, discovers her true identity and leaves her lavish life behind to avenge her birth father's death. ...
Genre :

1963-03-03 0

Five Ronins

The story of five easygoing Yakuza who come together to save the live of a young innocent girl, Oichi, from an evil vassal. ...
Genre :

Mitsunari Ishida

1960-05-15 5.2

The Master Spearman

This subversive period film features a hotheaded young samurai, Kurodo, who threatens to commit harakiri in response to the humiliation meted out to his family by the Shogun. The film critiques the in ...
Genre :Drama

Tenzen Akiyama

1959-12-13 0

Evil Man of Edo

A classic battle between good and evil pits an unscrupulous fortuneteller who has been preying on the good citizens of Edo against a master-less samurai who founded a school for underprivileged childr ...
Genre :History, Drama, Comedy

Dobashi Daigaku

1960-11-29 5.2

Morning Breeze in Edo

The sole survivor of a shipwreck pursues the whereabouts of his friends’ missing family members in Edo. ...
Genre :

1964-11-11 0

The Flower and the Sword

A dangerous mobster threatens the life of a businessman's mother in this thriller. As Ryuji oversees the building of a bridge in Japan, a powerful gangster plans to stop the project. By any means nece ...
Genre :Crime

1959-04-08 6

Bride of Peacock Castle

Princess Kazu, the daughter of Shogun Ienari, is sent to marry Matsudaira Nobunao, master of Peacock castle in Kozuke province, a domain of 17,000 koku. When the procession carrying her sizable dowry ...
Genre :

1960-11-22 7

Scarier than the Devil

A stage director who directs a “Mori no Ishimatsu” play time travels and becomes “Mori no Ishimatsu” himself. ...
Genre :Comedy

1961-09-23 7

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 vacation. Unexpectedly, the island's boss, Amimoto, was brutally murdered with a harpoon. As usual, the You ...
Genre :Mystery

1962-09-22 5

A Revengeful Raid

In this tale of bravery and honor among the roving gamblers of old Japan, the heroic Jirocho, Boss of the Tokaido is called upon to help a young yakuza named Eijiro after he runs afoul of the new samu ...
Genre :

1960-01-09 0

Bored Hatamoto: Island of No Return

Part of the Bored Hatamoto series. The most popular samurai in Edo, Saotome Mondonosuke, known to most as the "Bored Hatamoto" is the only one who can save the shogunate from the dastardly plot to tak ...
Genre :Action, Drama

1963-01-03 7

Tokaido Fullhouse

When Kanbe Nagakichi has his turf taken over by Ano-Toku, the father-in-law of his sworn brother Kira Nikichi sets in motion one of the most violent gang battles in Japanese history. Forced by the sit ...
Genre :Action, Drama

President Nakata

1986-08-09 0

Mofuku no niau hitozuma futari

Yuki Kimura, a company president's secretary, agrees to marry his son Yutaka on the president's recommendation. When Yutaka breaks up with his lover, a hostess, she implies she's going to commit suici ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery

Yoshitsugu Hatakeyama

1959-05-25 5.3

Hawk of the North

During the latter part of the 16th Century, Japan's Warring States era was coming to a close. After crushing almost all of his enemies, Date Masamune aka the "Hawk of the North" sets his eyes on Hatak ...
Genre :Action, History

1957-11-10 0

Travel Romances

Romantic comedy. ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

1960-01-03 5.4

Road of Chivalry

While on the road, famed Yakuza Boss Jirocho is falsely accused of starting a peasant's uprising and chased by the law. Meanwhile, one of his henchmen in an attempt to raise money for the Boss gambles ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

1962-01-31 7

Knightly Advice

Genre :

1956-05-03 0

Virtue in Spades

Adaptation of the novel by Kan Shimozawa. ...
Genre :

1960-10-09 0

Mighty Shosuke

A comedy about a free-spirited man Shosuke, whose life is turned upside down when he is ordered to serve the clan lord. ...
Genre :Comedy

1962-01-03 0

Jirocho' s Days of Youth: Whirlwind on the Tokaido

Adventures of famous yakuza boss Jirocho and his disciples who settle in Kofu. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, History

1961-01-03 5.7

The Shogun and the Fishmonger

Fishmonger Tasuke and Shogun Iemitsu swap their identities in pretence for the protection of Iemitsu. ...
Genre :

Magistrate Ooka

1959-09-30 0

The Medicine Case

Magistrate Ooka-Echizen faces a crime over a pillbox. ...
Genre :

Tajiri no Heihachi

1962-10-12 6

Mark of Blood

Three young yakuza, Fujitaro, Matsugoro and Kanjuro, travel the country fighting evil. ...
Genre :Crime, Adventure

Plibp

1953-08-19 0

Youth of Heiji Senigata

Genre :Drama, History, Comedy

Lord Matsudaira Aki

1958-11-11 10

The Lost Public Funds

Four thousand gold coins were stolen from the vault of Nijo Castle in Kyoto, which were collected as a tax to the shogun. The guard of Nijo castle Asaka Keinosuke, disguised as a komuso monk, proceeds ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, Adventure

Fujioka

1956-10-16 7

Tsukigata Hanpeita

During the bloody era of the Tokugawa Shogunate collapse, a man appeared capable of overthrowing a corrupt government and ending the feud between the Choshu and Satsuma clans. This is the story of Tsu ...
Genre :Action, Romance, History

1965-12-04 5

Code of Ruffians

Because of trickery, the Jinya Group has only seven days to complete a mountain road project or it will forfeit a major dam construction job to the scheming Ojika Group. ...
Genre :

Yui Shosetsu

1960-07-05 10

Paper Crane Palanquin

The death of a samurai in a palanquin leads girl detective Oshichi to take action to crush a plot to overthrow the Shogunate. ...
Genre :Comedy, Mystery, History

Miyakodori

1957-01-03 7.5

Shimizu Port of Chivalry

An all-star cast highlights this Jidai-Geki classic. Set in the samurai era, this is the tale of period Yakuza. One of the real classics in this genre. In this dramatic portrayal of the real-life gamb ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, History

Yang Hsien

1955-05-03 6.68

Princess Yang Kwei-fei

In eighth century China, the Emperor is grieving over the death of his wife. The Yang family wants to provide the Emperor with a consort so that they may consolidate their influence over the court. Ge ...
Genre :Romance, Drama, History

1960-12-27 9

Case of a Young Lord 8

A family is brutally murdered in their own home and the official government's sake dealer is framed as a rebel by a corrupt member of the Shogun's Council of Elders. Young Lord decides to take on the ...
Genre :Action, Drama

1960-08-07 8.3

Lord Mito: All Star Version

In 1691 a terrible fire broke out in Denmacho, Yotsuya, burning down the towns around it, up to the shores of Shibaura. A month and a half later, another fire broke out, this time in Komagome, burning ...
Genre :

1959-11-29 0

Isshin Tasuke: A Man Among Men

In the third entry into this mega-hit series, Isshin Tasuke, a spirited fishmonger in Edo who looks just like Shogun Iemitsu undergoes a series of unforeseen troubles in his newly wedded life. ...
Genre :Drama, History, Comedy, Action

Kuroda Sanzaemon

1961-01-09 7.2

Lord of Steel Heart

A Tokugawa Daimyo rebels against an his lord after the battle of Sekigahara. Samurai Matabei, a famous spear fighter and warrior, is a vassal of lord Honjo. One of Honjo's most trusted under-lords is ...
Genre :

1959-10-10 5

Bloody Battle at Dawn

A story of revenge between two samurai families on the Igagoe Road. Araki Mataemon born in the province of Iga. He studied the art of the sword under the Yagyu family. He helped the younger brother of ...
Genre :Drama, History

1959-02-24 5.4

The Forbidden Castle

From an original story by Shibata Renzaburo, the novelist who created such classics as: the "Nemuri Kyoshiro" series (Son of the Black Mass), "Destiny’s Son" etc. comes the complex story exploring the ...
Genre :Drama

Morita

1956-03-08 0

Police Precinct Part 2

Genre :Crime, Mystery

1959-08-09 6.2

A Spectacular Showdown

One of the great stories from Japan’s rich history comes to life in this true tale of the bloody showdown between two rival yakuza gangs in the 1840’s. The battle between Boss Sukegoro of Iioka and Bo ...
Genre :Action

1957-03-13 0

Lords of Oppression

Period drama directed by Yasushi Sasaki. ...
Genre :Drama

1957-03-27 0

Lords of Oppression 2

Period drama directed by Yasushi Sasaki. ...
Genre :Drama

1960-03-15 6

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 commit. ...
Genre :Drama

1959-02-10 0

The Unleashed Lord

Genre :

1960-02-14 0

Lord of Red Banner

A young lord lives against the will of his father Lord Tokugawa. ...
Genre :

1962-07-01 0

Shimmering Sword

Genre :

1961-06-21 0

An Eagle Eyed Lord

Genre :

1959-03-25 0

Turbulent Highways

Genre :

1963-09-21 0

Young Master Yakuza: Edoite Goblin

Genre :

Itakura Katsukiyo

1980-05-24 0

Tokugawa Ichizoku no Houkai

Genre :Drama, History, War

1957-02-25 0

Pirates Magistrate

As it turns out, the evil hand of drugs has reached the inner palace of the Shogunate. It was thought that the opium was coming from Nagasaki, but it turns out that it was reaching Edo through smuggli ...
Genre :Crime

1974-03-30 0

The First Star of Happiness

A youth movie starring Miyoko Asada that depicts a cute and lovely 16 years old girl who lives a bright and refreshing life with her purity. She helps at a boarding house in Kamakura where she met Hid ...
Genre :

1955-10-23 6

The Samurai of Edo

This historical film depicts the life of a man who was at the mercy of the waves during transition from the end of the Edo period to the Meiji Restoration, and therefore, shows audience the dynamic ch ...
Genre :History, War, Drama

1959-08-02 0

The Black Hooded Man Rides Again

Genre :

1968-10-12 0

Fangs of a Female

Japanese crime film ...
Genre :

1959-06-28 6

Bored Hatamoto: The Daimonji Conspiracy

Master swordsman and loyal vassal Saotome Mondonosuke goes on a mission to find a missing princess. ...
Genre :Drama

1975-06-07 0

Kyukei no Koya

A film adaptation of Seicho Matsumoto's novel of the same title, starring Muga Takewaki and Yoko Shimada. Set in Japan at the end of the war, the film depicts the fate of a diplomat who abandoned his ...
Genre :

1954-09-21 0

The Valley Between Love and Death

A great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that is about to be driven to despair. ...
Genre :Drama

1960-08-28 0

The Swordsman In The Golden Valley

Jidaigeki film from 1960 ...
Genre :

1956-01-29 0

Meteor Karate Strike

Sequel to the movie Denko karate uchi. ...
Genre :Drama, Action

1965-05-01 0

おゝい雲！

1965 Toei Drama / Comedy ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

1960-04-05 0

White Cliffs

1960 Toei film. ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

1964-10-30 0

The Eternal Life

This moving movie depicts the preciousness of life through the interaction between a man with a dark past and a boy battling illness. ...
Genre :Drama

1956-04-04 0

刑事部屋

Genre :

1967-04-29 0

春日和

Genre :

1957-07-02 0

Sendō shimai

1957 Japanese movie ...
Genre :

1964-12-31 0

Black Strait

Newly out of prison after killing his boss' rival, Akio Maki is eager to move on and start a new life with the boss' daughter. However, the chains of the past are not so easily broken and Maki is soo ...
Genre :Crime, Action

1960-05-10 0

Saikoro mushuku

Genre :History, Action

1960-01-03 6

Benten Kozo

Orphaned Kiku was raised at a Buddhist temple and learned theatrical arts and martial arts as a child, which were used to put on stage productions to raise money for the temple, but also to display yo ...
Genre :Drama, Action

1958-06-15 0

His Pistol is Hell

"Masayoshi Ryanko" jumps into the den of the underworld swirling with smuggling and murder, and defeats the culprit with a heart-pounding pistol. ...
Genre :Action, Crime

1954-12-08 0

Monster with Twenty Faces

Edogawa Rampo's famous detective, part 1 ...
Genre :

1955-01-02 0

美男お小姓　人斬り彦齋

Genre :

Arimura Jizaemon

1963-04-07 7

Life of a Flower

The story chronicles the life of Ii Naosuke. ...
Genre :Drama

Ometsuke Doi Masatoshi

1973-10-04 0

Kanbei's Wandering Adventures

Kanbei Hamidashi aka Tsukada Kambei was originally a direct retainer and head of a large group but could not fit into the organization and spent his days drinking and fighting. Such a Kambei receives ...
Genre :

1982-05-22 0

危険な誘拐

Genre :

1973-04-07 10

Kenkaku Shōbai

Kohei Akiyama, a popular master swordsman, and his son Daijiro live in the town of Edo in good faith. While running a dojo, Daijiro and his father find themselves wrapped up in a series of events with ...
Genre :Drama