Kei Satô

Peace in 17th-century Japan causes the Shogunate’s breakup of warrior clans, throwing thousands of samurai out of work and into poverty. An ...

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 ...

The second movie of Tôru Murakawa’s “Game” trilogy. After making a sensational hit, a hitman has gone into hiding for five ...

Frustrated with the bad behavior of his lord, Inaba Yajuro (Otomo) declares that he is leaving the clan and sets off on a journey that leads him ...

Against the backdrop of the Edo treasury devaluing currency and driving many into poverty, Hanzo Itami enforces the law without regard to status. ...

Seeking revenge against the guard who tormented him, a young man returns to the island where he was imprisoned in reform school. But his plans ...

In the Sengoku period, a woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of civil war. Afterwards, a series of samurai ...

In this elegant proto-feminist shocker from Yasuzo Masumuro, a woman forced into prostitution wreaks her spidery revenge. A mysterious tattoo ...

A budding gangster enthralls a freeloading young woman, soon taking advantage of her knack for hitch-hiking to rob middle-class, middle-aged men. ...

Nagisa Oshima’s most personal film is a reflection by the director on his own disillusionment with the revolutionary student movement of ...

During WWII a soldier is beaten so badly by a superior officer he is left deaf. After the war he is an inventor and meets this officer at the ...

The Man Who Assassinated Ryoma is a movie about a haunted blood-thirsty Bakufu officer who might have killed Ryoma Sakamoto. Release: The Man Who ...

The great Kinji Fukasaku has made tons of this kind of films, always beginning with the scene of a gangster being relased from jail, finding his ...

A motorcycle cop and a freelance photographer, having learned the location of 1 billion yen’s worth of the Imperial Navy’s gold, team ...

Ogin is a concubine of a powerful feudal lord (Tayu). The evil woman Ogin tries to gain power by killing all the people who disturb her. Release: ...

Psychological action drama about the activities of a corrupt lawyer. Release: The Great Villains 1968 tt0228175 Japanese General: mkv | 6041 Kbps ...

The continuing adventures of Matsuzaki (Eiji Okuda), a racing tipster for a sports paper. In this sequel to 1993’s The Wicked Reporter, ...

Mika Hino is a sharp-shooting investigator that belongs to the infamous “Gator Branch.” When an executive board member of a trading ...

When the country is in peril, Lord Tajima summons his son to retrieve the mystical Yagyu Scroll is order to save all of Japan. This time, Jubei ...

In a small mining town, a young woman named Hide survives a suicide attempt while her lover dies. Blaming her for the death of his brother, ...