6.4
An Actor’s Revenge
IMDb: 6.4 1959 85 min
Nakamura Yukinojo gains popularity in Edo’s kabuki scene as a handsome onnagata (a male actor who plays female roles). But hidden behind ...
7.5
Hero of the Red Light District
IMDb: 7.5 1960 109 min
A successful textile industrialist from the provinces, who is beloved by his employees for his kindness, cannot find a wife because of a ...
6.5
Lord Mito
IMDb: 6.5 1957 98 min
This most celebrated all-star movie version of the popular series features Tsukigata Ryunosuke as Mito Komon, the sage who wanders the ...
7.9
Shimizu Port of Chivalry
IMDb: 7.9 1957 104 min
My copy of this film gives the English title as PORT OF HONOR and the film is in color not black-and-white, as IMDb has it. It’s a ...
0
Keepers of Order
1962 92 min
Chuji and his family become the primary target of gangs in Nikko headed by Hasshu marshal Nakayama and boss Sukegoro Iioka. Chuji is then aided ...
7.6
Moving
IMDb: 7.6 1993 124 min
Physically separated from her father and at odds with her distraught mother, a girl must negotiate her own passage to maturity. Release: Moving ...
7.1
Adult
The Christ of Nanjing
IMDb: 7.1 1995 99 min
Tony Au directed this Hong Kong-Japanese co-production lovingly adapted for the screen by Joyce Chan. Tony Leung stars as Ryuichi Okagawa, a ...