Takeshi Katō

An executive of a Yokohama shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped by mistake and held for ransom.

A vengeful young man marries the daughter of a corrupt industrialist in order to seek justice for his father's suicide.

Yakuza boss Shozo Hirono must choose his alliances carefully as the local gangster family affiliations prove themselves to be wildly unstable, causing gang conflicts to slowly escalate.

Japan will sink down to the deep sea. The governments only hope is evacuate all Japanese to some other countries.

After Zatoichi learns of his sensei's murder he uncovers a horrible conspiracy involving the local government and crime family.

A feature-length documentary about the life and films of legendary actor Toshiro Mifune, weaving together film clips, archival stills, and interviews with such luminaries as Steven Spielberg and Martin Scorsese. Narrated by Keanu ...

A group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a whole.

Kôsuke Kindaichi, a somewhat peculiar private detective, visits a remote town. He meets a police detective and they start to investigate an old unsolved murder. Then some murders happen. Kindaichi must find out about the past in o...

A scruffy detective investigates the murders of three sisters on a small Japanese island in 1946.

Set in Kawaguchi, just north of Tokyo in the early 60s, the movie chronicles the lives of poor foundry workers and their families; and one girl's dreams of self-improvement through going on to higher education.

In a remake of a well-known Japanese mystery, a man in Kobe does not have a family. He receives a visitor who is a researcher one day who has noticed that the man has a well-off family in Okayama. This village is called Yatsuhakam...

Koto is a 1980 film directed by Kon Ichikawa starring Momoe Yamaguchi and Tomokazu Miura in an adaptation of Yasunari Kawabata's story The Old Capital.

A darker, deconstructionist depiction of the legendary samurai Musashi Miyamoto.

Shinsuke's life from infancy to teens revolves around coal mining. His father sacrifices himself rescuing trapped miners. Shinsuke and his mother receive support from a kind Korean man and a yakuza biker as they cope with the loss.