Minoru Hodaka Movies

A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima, combining dramatizations of three of his novels and a depiction of the events of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Ogata

A former soldier is caught working the black market and sent to prison while his partner escapes and goes on to become a gangster, but their paths...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Noboru Andō

Detective Kikuchi is sent to Okinawa to investigate why a girl jumped from a window after shooting heroin. There, he encounters the usual assortment...

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Cast: Sonny Chiba

Edo Crime Book: Black Claws

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Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

Itto Ogami- High Executioner to the Shogun- has been betrayed by his political enemies and sentenced to a dishonorable death. Seeking to restore the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

Japanese drama.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroko Sakuramachi

A high-ranking yakuza rises to national notoriety.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

Years of warfare end in a Japan unified under the Tokugawa shogunate, and samurai spy Sasuke Sarutobi, tired of conflict, longs for peace. When a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kōji Takahashi

This anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when assassins changed the course of Japanese history.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

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...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

A bunch of young, angry and penniless misfits are full of great vitality. They aren’t quite up to joining the yakuza and execute a variety of...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

Takeshi Ijuin leaves for Chicago to be a cameraman, and a few years later returns to Japan. But he only learned the technique of homicide in Chicago....

Genre: Action

Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

Assassination begins with the events of 1853 when "four black ships" anchored at Edo Bay, sparking civil unrest and the major political manoeuvring...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tetsuro Tamba

Four ninja are hired to fight against the Shogunate’s plot to abolish the Gamo Clan, the regional barons struggling to reinstate their young...

Genre: Action

Cast: Jūshirō Konoe

The lord of the Oshi fief is killed by his trespassing neighbour, the cruel and despotic Nariatsu, son of the former Shogun. After an investigation,...

Genre: Action

Cast: Isao Natsuyagi

When a rebellious roughneck enlists in the Navy and goes on a rampage against his superiors, he is sent to the Yokosuka Naval Prison.

Genre: Action

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Samonji, a reporter, receives a message on his answering machine from his friend Takada that says "stop it... zero plan! February." Learning that...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Toshio Kurosawa

Junai Monogatari AKA Story of Pure Love is about two poor youths, Mitsuko and Kando, rebelling against society in various ways, who are desperately...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Shinjirô Ehara

In this gritty tale of gamblers battling in the samurai era, Okawa Hashizo gives perhaps his greatest performance as a gambler returning to his home...

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Cast: Hashizo Okawa

In turbulent 16th-century Japan, the leaders of a minor fief have their child taken from them as a political hostage. His mother and his clan endure...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinya Kitaoji

A story of young students trained to become Kamikaze pilots in World War II.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

A headstrong young man seeks to join the Shinsengumi, but while his determination impresses his superiors, questions begin to arise as to his true...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hashizo Okawa

Police investigators investigate the link between a serial killer's machinations and a teenage boy who committed suicide.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Makoto Satō

The most dangerous hired gun in Kyushu's underworld has managed to trigger a vicious gang war, and now, there's a contract on his life. Though nobody...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

While Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political party, whose two executives stir up new tensions in...

Genre: Action

Cast: Bunta Sugawara