Jushiro Kobayashi Movies

A romantic adventure tale about a young guy working on a whale-hunting vessel and his love for a childhood sweetheart.

At a tavern in Shimoda, Ronin Tadakazu Yamakawa saved a samurai girl named Mino from the clutches of the Benten family. When Mino's father, Kyohei...

For the poor, Edo is Hell on Earth, starving under the rule of Tanuma Okitsugi, corrupt councilor to the shogun. But the courageous vagabond called...

This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their...

The sequel to the 1935 film Great Bodhisattva Pass

The story of three brothers who struggle to shake free of the father's ties to the yakuza underworld. A star vehicle for the popular singer/actor...

Japanese drama film.

Two rival gangs of gangsters clash for dominance of a neighborhood.

A disgraced yakuza member, framed for the murder of his boss, emerges from prison eight years later with revenge on his mind.

Writer Jippensha Ikku hears Tsutaya Juzaburo, a wholesaler of picture books, mutter on his deathbed, "Where has Sharaku gone?" He begins to figure...

International agents have failed to track down the high-level source of government top-security leaks. Japanese officials suspect the involvement of...

1962 Japanese movie

It is a historical drama that follows Katsu Kaishu's efforts to surrender Edo Castle bloodlessly in the first year of the Meiji period.

Part 2 of Holiday in Japan

A good young man accidentally joins a group of leg breakers

An early fantasy film starring Tomisaburô Wakayama.

A young doctor discovers that the city hall of records has a record of his death. He and some friends try to seek out the person who reported it, and...

Jeom-yong Kim (Pyeong Wang) is a train conductor who wants to drive a military train. Won-jin (Eun-gi Dog) is his best friend and both live together....