
June 16, 1926 · 100 years old

After death, people have a week to choose only one memory to keep for eternity.

When the wife of the Shogun's Decapitator is murdered and he is ordered to commit suicide by the paranoid Shogun, he and his four-year-old son escape and become assassins for hire, embarking on a journey of blood and violent death.

The story of a Ronin (i.e. a masterless samurai) who wanders the countryside of Japan with his small child, having various adventures.

His ideals challenged by life as a conscript in war-time Japan's military, a pacifist faces ever greater tests in his fight for survival.

As a conscript in war-time Japan's military, a pacifist struggles to maintain his determination to keep his ideals.

Thirty years after the original monster's rampage, a new Godzilla emerges and attacks Japan.

A conscience-driven Japanese soldier traumatized by the events of WWII adopts the lifestyle of a Buddhist monk.

Five warriors challenge Ogami to duels. Each holds a part of information needed to complete the assassination of a mad clan leader.

The Japanese government suppresses news of Godzilla's resurrection as political tensions increase between the US and USSR, both of whom willing to bomb Japan to stop the monster.

A noble young samurai searches for a thief who has stolen a precious treasure and killed one of his clansmen and meets an older samurai who tries to deter him from the violence of revenge.

Detectives investigate the murder of an old man found in a Tokyo rail yard.

A revenge-seeking man and his foolish friends plan to rob a yakuza gang.

The lives of a master sculptor and his young apprentice are changed forever when they meet an evil witch during a snow storm.

A tough police detective is falsely accused of corruption, and goes on the run to clear his name. He is assisted by the beautiful daughter of a rich man.

A freestyle biopic of Ikki Kita, the ultranationalist intellectual whose ideas inspired the failed military coup in 1936.

Sakiko, a young bank teller, has an unhealthy obsession with money. Thieves hold up the bank, kidnapping Sakiko in the process, but eventually crash their car, cash falling into a nearby river. Sakiko begins a quest to retrieve th...

Years after the death of legendary tea master Rikyu, his disciple Honkakubo attempts to resolve the mystery of the master's death.

The story follow a court case of a woman accused of having killed her husband.

A scruffy detective investigates the murders of three sisters on a small Japanese island in 1946.

The Wife of Seishû Hanaoka is set in feudal Japan. Its two central characters are based on the wife and mother of Japanese physician Seishû Hanaoka (1760-1835). Hanaoka developed a herbal general anesthetic, "Tsusensan", some fort...

It is the 1570's in Japan. Ninja Kasumi Kanbey specializes in making gunpowder. He lives with his young son Kojiro, who witnesses his assassination by five skilled ninjas. Kanbey manages to kill two of his attackers before succumb...