Michiyo Kogure Movies

A young yakuza student is led back to the straight and narrow path by his uncle.

Tanuma Kandayuu is a high class samurai of the house of Nabeshima. He finds a lavish board of Go (a Chinese Board game) at Kinbei's store. He...

Early film by Kenji Misumi.

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

Continuation of The Blue Mountains: Part I. Released a week later.

1948 adaptation of Golden Devil, part 2

1961 Japanese movie

In 39 interviews with actors and actresses, writers, producers and staff members, interspersed with film excerpts and stills, Shindō recounts...

When the aging leader of the yakuza gang Maeda-gumi decides to retire, many of the gang members have no confidence in the young man he has chosen to...

Tora-san helps out a runaway bride.

1961 Japanese movie

Movie about a devoted and single woman and her daughter. The mother's nickname is "Bokuseki" (wooden head) because of his supposed stubbornness....

Romantic melodrama set in contemporary Hong Kong, Japan and Laos. Hiroshi Tanaka (Takarada) is a Japanese journalist on assignment in Hong Kong who...

One of Japanese folklore's most popular characters is brought to life on the silver screen in this terrific version of legendary Demon slaying Peach...

In the year 1786, Shogun Ieharu Tokugawa selected beautiful Ochisa to be his concubine. It causes other concubines to become very jealous and mean....

A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced.