Seizaburō Kawazu Movies

One of Japanese folklore's most popular characters is brought to life on the silver screen in this terrific version of legendary Demon slaying Peach...

Makino Masahiro film starring Okada Mariko

Loyal samurai Samanosuke is attacked, mutilated, and left for dead while carrying out a mission for his clan. He recovers but has lost an eye and an...

A movie directed by Nobuo Nakagawa

A story of a servant girl whose life is upturned by her doomed love for a spineless young man.

This film was made by the Japanese occupation authorities in the Philippines as a propaganda film to show the Philippine people the "benefits" of the...

The Opium War is a 1943 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Masahiro Makino. "Ahen senso" in Japan refers to the First Opium War. The story of...

The rise of the famed gambler.

Starring Akira Takarada as a lightweight boxing champion.

Thriller directed by Seiji Maruyama

Lesser, but still modestly entertaining sequel. Wakayama is wonderfully bastardly here, but has to do without Chicago bros. Yamashiro & Watanabe and...

Jirocho and his followers chase the Kurokomas into the Kai Province.

Hidejiro is a wandering yakuza with a ‘karashi botan’ (Chinese lion and peony) tattoo. Owing a favor to the Soda Family, he kills the...

Rival bands of pirates try to get hold of a priceless treasure.

Japanese neo-noir crime drama movie directed by Jun Fukuda

A flower is a woman or a man is a butterfly... Love and melancholy bloom wildly in the nighttime garden! This is a moody entertainment work depicting...