The Lone Journey

Rashomon

Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, "Rashomon" is perhaps the finest film ever to investigate the philosophy of justi

1950

The Last Samurai

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and th

2003

Lowly Ronin

Reprising his role from the popular TV series "Koya no Suronin" (The Lowly Ronin), Mifune Toshiro stars in this full-length, stand-alone made for TV

1981

Lowly Ronin 2: The Spray of Blood

Reprising his role from the popular TV series "Koya no Suronin" (The Lowly Ronin), Mifune Toshiro stars in this full-length, stand-alone made for TV

1982

Zatoichi

Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice games. When he arrives in a village torn apart by war

2003

Dolls

Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided by the live characters. Chief among those tales is

2002

Merciless Blade

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

1953

Merciless Blade Part 2

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

1953

Kenkagarasu

Historical drama about two samurai who fight over everything yet unite together to fight an evil lord.

1954

A Samurai's Honor at Pawn

A film about the struggle of an officer from Edo, Toyama Saemon, with a lightning-fast gang of thieves.

1956

Merciless Blade Part 3

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

1953

Brother

A Japanese Yakuza gangster's deadly existence in his homeland gets him exiled to Los Angeles, where he is taken in by his little brother and his broth

2000

Seven Samurai

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six

1954

The Superhuman Stud

Roman Porno from 1972.

1972

The Cleanup

A real all-star cast turns out for this modern yakuza yarn.

1969

Tale of the Last Japanese Yakuza

Yakuza drama with Meiko Kaji directed by Masahiro Makino

1969

Kill Bill: Vol. 1

An assassin is shot by her ruthless employer, Bill, and other members of their assassination circle – but she lives to plot her vengeance.

2003

Game of Chance 2

Bungo is released from prison to find his son Kenichi in the care of strangers. Teruko, the woman originally looking after the boy, was forced to leav

1967

Twisted Justice

Starting in 1970s Hokkaido, the film charts the moral descent of Detective Moroboshi over three decades, the young cop quickly gets a bit too cozy wit

2016

Family Crest: Die Like a Man

The story of three brothers who, after loosing their parents in the Great Kanto Earthquake, continued their respective yakuza family business and the

1969