Yousuke Kondou

Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money...

Release : 1965.01.06
Popularity : 8.477

The secret map of the treasure of Kenzan was stolen out of the house of a former soldier in Awa. A fight over the treasure that the map shows happens...

Release : 1983.08.19
Popularity : 0.76

Genshiro is a famous Kenkaya of Edo. He turns up in incidents to get interfering fees but gets involved in a terrible incident… the...

Release : 1983.04.07
Popularity : 0.797

The story takes place in feudal Japan, when any commerce with the rest of the world was strictly prohibited. An idealist suddenly appears in an...

Release : 1971.09.11
Popularity : 6.103

By all indications, an anti-government conspiracy is brewing in the Satsuma Domen. Already seven oniwaban spies sent by the shogunate have...

Release : 1982.11.26
Popularity : 1.235

A young girl must spend six years making sweatshirts out of poison ivy in order to save her six brothers which have been turned into swans by an evil...

Release : 1977.03.19
Popularity : 1.713

A UFO transports three children back to the prehistoric. Three kids who have heard a mysterious call from advanced beings whom are about to take them...

Release : 1979.10.07
Popularity : 2.211

The story of Japan's victory in the battle of Tsushima Strait.

Release : 1983.06.04
Popularity : 1.816

Watanabe Kazuma's younger brother is brutally murdered by Kawai Matagoro. However, Kazuma's vendetta is denied since the Japanese law in the 17th...

Release : 1993.03.23
Popularity : 0.305

On their way to the Owari, Sanzo and Yumenogosuke gets lost in the Kiso Mountains. There they encounter a hidden gold mine being demolished by the...

Release : 1983.08.26
Popularity : 0.416

The 21-year-old feudal on Sendai, Tsunamune Date, was prohibited to go out in the daytime for his misbehavior during his short stay in Edo. On the...

Release : 1983.12.01
Popularity : 0.975

Isozoemon (Go Kato) was a ronin (masterless samurai) and broke, who lived in a Choya (cheap apartment) in Okazakijoka town with his sick wife, Sugie...

Release : 1981.12.25
Popularity : 0.827

When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shark, pretty, young Kiriko travels from her home in...

Release : 1965.05.28
Popularity : 1.982

The government in Edo era is suffering from a financial crisis. It hires "Kage" to provoke the collapse of small hans (prefectures). "Kagekari" are...

Release : 1983.10.06
Popularity : 2.94

Kumazou, a "cleaner" for hire, encounters a woman attempting to commit suicide with her two young siblings one night. Kumazou gives them all the...

Release : 1987.06.25
Popularity : 3.49

Akiyama is an intern, disgusted with the noise pollution caused by the bullet trains and the heart attacks that noise has been causing in older...

Release : 1975.11.06
Popularity : 1.142

Oryu searches for blind child she left behind and get involved in a Yakuza turf war that takes place in the Tokyo Theater.

Release : 1970.03.05
Popularity : 2.354

Zatoichi is mentored by the blind leader of a secret organization as he contends with both the Yakuza and a jealous husband.

Release : 1970.08.12
Popularity : 3.46

Adaptation of novel.

Release : 1963.12.01
Popularity : 0.694

The clerk of a trading company happens to have a large sum of money from his company in his possession. His girlfriend pressures him into fleeing...

Release : 1971.08.25
Popularity : 0.71

When a married man begins an affair with a woman from his past, he comes to suspect her young son intends to murder him.

Release : 1970.06.13
Popularity : 4.075

Based on a novel by Ayako Miura.

Release : 1973.12.15
Popularity : 1.169

Yukio Aoshima and several of his friends go to the seashore for a weekend, and Yukio films them as they enjoy the sand, the surf, and each other.

Release : 1967.04.11
Popularity : 0.181

The president of the Japanese National Railways is found dead during a period in which train service is plagued by numerous layoffs, strikes and...

Release : 1981.11.07
Popularity : 1.292

A young samurai defends townsfolk from evil forces.

Release : 1966.03.10
Popularity : 0.899

Remi, an orphan kid gets hired out to a traveling street entertainer Vitalis when her foster parents fall on hard times.

Release : 1980.03.15
Popularity : 3.351

Orphaned Remi gets hired out to a traveling street entertainer Vitalis when her foster parents fall on hard times.

Release : 1977.10.02
Popularity : 102.145

A Japanese period drama broadcast in prime-time in 1984, based on Goseki Kojima and Kazuo Koike 's manga of the same title. Kainage Mondo is a...

Release : 1983.06.17
Popularity : 7.372

Koheita, a newly appointed magistrate, never shows his face in the magistrate's office, instead spending his time in the 'Horisoto', a den of evil...

Release : 1981.05.01
Popularity : 2.453

An epic of love and death that depicts how soldiers and ordinary people lived and fought during the Russo-Japanese War, when Japan's very existence...

Release : 1981.01.07
Popularity : 11.448

A human drama based on the "Date Riots".

Release : 1983.12.01
Popularity : 1.852

The drama features two families, the all-male Shibata family and the all-female Inaba family, and depicts the interactions between the two families...

Release : 1968.10.15
Popularity : 5.124

Kaze to kumo to Niji to deals with the Heian period in Japan. Based on Chōgorō Kaionji`s novels Taira no Masakado and Umi to Kaze to Niji to. The...

Release : 1976.01.04
Popularity : 21.826