Zenpei Saga Movies

A boxing melodrama. Two friends become boxers and begin training for the championship. These two boys eventually face each other in the ring.

Katiri is a reporter so ambitiously amoral that he’ll sell out anyone—including his partner and the drug dealer he’s sleeping...

Kohei Misugi works in a vegetable market, but his ambition is to be a photographer. He is given his first opportunity to demonstrate his talent by...

1969 Nikkatsu yakuza movie

Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her increasing blindness.

Among Yoshimura’s complex and political works, this episodic film, set in the early 1930s, follows the life of a young left-wing student...

During the Tokugawa Shogunate, a band of smugglers use a tavern on an isolated island in Edo's Fukagawa district as their base of operations. After...

Four criminals break into the home of a jewelry merchant, Sanpodo, rob the diamonds, and escape. However, one of them receives a bullet during a...

A comedy-action film depicting a kind-hearted protagonist who, feeling disillusioned with the world, asks a hitman for assistance with suicide, only...

After his own gang sets him up to kill a rival mobster, a hit man is forced to flee with his younger brother.

A musical film based on the original work of Saigo Teruhiko. After leaving the juvenile detention center and returning to his hometown of Ibusuki,...

Based on the Seichō Matsumoto's story The Woman Who Took the Local Paper.

"Karayuki-san offers a no-holds-barred depiction of the discrimination faced by a former prostitute who returns to Japan from Singapore with her...

Jiro, a young yakuza, and Mami, a diplomat’s daughter, are two young lovers from different worlds. Having met by accident, they soon discover a...

A period film about a peasant revolt in the region near Mount Fuji, occasioned by high officials' depriving the farmers of their water rights.

A detective sets out on a manhunt to catch a murderer before the crime's statue of limitations runs out.

Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda

Set in Qingdao, China, a Japanese company locates an office there and begins work and cooperation with a local Chinese company for business. Many...

An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.