Ryutaro Otomo Movies

Shogi, a Japanese form of chess, is a game that requires skill and determination. When poor sandal-maker Sakata decides to pursue his dream of...

Detective Umon’s services are called upon when ronin Yaichiro is killed with a peculiar weapon, a stone wrapped in a towel.

1954 Japanese movie

Third film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka

The stormy tale of the Shinsengumi is told from its birth by master filmmaker Sasaki Yasushi, with an all-star cast based on the original story by...

Bored Hatamoto movie #11

A man dies in an automobile accident and returns as a white-haired demon and seeks revenge on his wife and her lover

The serial killing of a samurai each night by strangulation at various temples confounds investigators and brings a chill to the residents of Edo....

The Shinsengumi is a special unit of ronin commissioned by the Tokugawa shogunate to counter anti-shogunate activities in Kyoto. A sinister plot to...

Kindaichi challenges the mystery of an incident in which three sisters were killed one after the other according to an ancient tradition on an...

While the story of the Ako Clan's vendetta has been told countless times, never before has there been an array of major motion picture stars to bring...

A young samurai learns that he is the illegitimate son of the Shogun. Hoping to reunite with his birth father, he travels to Edo to find Shogun...

This adaptation of a Hideji Hojo novel, about the historical uprising of the Kuroda clan in 1633, is told through the eyes of retainer, Daizen. As...

During the middle of the Kanei Period (1624-1644) Japan was in the early stages of its most peaceful era. This left a large number of unemployed...

Five swordsmen are murdered and hung from a tree and the chase is on to find the killers. Two magistrates pursue the leads to solve the crime and it...

Sequel to "Island of Horrors" (獄門島, 1949).