Akira Shimizu Movies

The Dai-bosatsu toge trilogy is based on Kaizan Nakazato's unfinished long series of novels (41 books, written from 1913 to 1941). Set in the last...

Itarō abandons his life as a hatamoto to become a yakuza.

A drama about the sex industry.

Sentaro is been severely beaten for his defiance of the government and the high taxes during a time of famine. He is befriended by Kada Gentaro, a...

In the early Edo period, among the pirate ships that roamed the seas near Ryukyu and Korea, there was a ship called the Sueyoshi, led by a man known...

A 1946 Japanese film directed by Keigo Kimura.

Jida-geki by Santaro Marune.

Okoyo, the mistress of Lord Arima, fears that she is being replaced by a younger woman named Otaki. In a fit of jealousy, she kills the younger girl....

Historical drama.

A yakuza bodyguard is persuaded by Ōhara Yūgaku to take the farmers’ side.

A 1961 film directed by Yoshiyuki Kuroda.

Early film by Kenji Misumi.