Kusuo Abe Filmes

Kind of the Japanese equivalent of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, this film is a fictionalized version of the gang battle in the later Edo period,...

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to...

Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to become a mighty samurai warrior.

The third part of the story about feudal boss Jirocho and his underlings.

Kamio a mistreated samurai clerk of Edo Castle and ronin (“Sir Quarrel”) Ibara, take up a vendetta against 17 wicked castle men.

Period piece about a young man who, because of his hard life alone in the world, has become a yakuza. When he hears that his mother may be living in...

Jirocho and his henchmen befriend Ishimatsu, a wanderer in Mishima.

A young lord lives against the will of his father Lord Tokugawa.

The long-awaited Hakkenshi arrive at Takita Castle, which is saddened by successive defeats.

Sugimoto Gonkuro is travelling along from Tosa to Edo. On his journey he will meet both good and bad people.

Fearless girl firefighter Oharu and skilled firefighter Shintaro battle against their evil rivals who threaten to take over Oharu’s...

The first film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass.

A headstrong young man seeks to join the Shinsengumi, but while his determination impresses his superiors, questions begin to arise as to his true...

Kinnosuke of Toyama sets out on a private mission to clear his father’s name for a crime he did not commit.

Early film by Eiichi Kudô.

After a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he recounts his gruesome family history which saw generations of his ancestors suffer and...

Meiji Tenno portrays the buildup to the Russo-Japan War. In addition to showing the political events that led to war, it also shows the era from the...

The sole survivor of a shipwreck pursues the whereabouts of his friends’ missing family members in Edo.

2nd film in the Eight Brave Brothers trilogy