Movies

Japanese war film.

A fairly entertaining yarn told in somewhat broad strokes with Wakayama playing against type as a reformed-gambler-turned- Christian minister. Of...

The 40th and final "Tengu Kurama" feature starring Kanjuro Arashi.

A high-ranking yakuza rises to national notoriety.

Japanese film, originally released in two parts.

Japanese film.

The Frightful Era of Kurama Tengu is a 1928 black and white Japanese silent film with benshi accompaniment directed by Teppei Yamaguchi. It is part...

First part - Edo at the end of the Edo period, when the wind and clouds were rising rapidly - The people gathered at Kiba late at night are Shinnojo...

Japanese film.

Iso no Genta accidentally kills a magistrate and becomes a yakuza. Considered a lost film.

1945 Japanese movie

An important silent film survives, Kumahiko Nishina's Umon torimonocho rokuban tegara jinenji kidan (The Samurai Detective, aka The Detective Records...

Kyoto in the third year of Bunkyu. --Serizawa Kamo, the head of the Shinsengumi, and the group around him spend their days and nights having fun in...

Japanese action film.

Ryō Hagiwara movie

1959 Japanese film.