Movies: Yūnosuke Itō

The success story of a group of ronin who fights against traffickers during the Edo Tenpo period....

Somewhat unique as it appears to be one of the very rare appearances of master thespian Itô in a yakuza role....

As Japan’s Tokugawa shogunate nears the end of its rule, Edo North Magistrate Toyama no Kinsan is called upon to judge the most difficult case of his career. In a masterfully woven tale, he has to face the truth about his estranged father’s possible ...

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Comedy about a 50-something movie director, his new bride, a classical dancer, and his adult son and daughter and their loves....

In a mountain village, Heita, a translator's son, is a gifted boy but is shunned by the villagers. He can imitate birds' cry and befriends another boy who works in a brewery. Heita also finds solace in the village pastor Yasugi and his teacher Michik...

Japanese "kayo" film based on the song "Ieraishan" by Yoshiko Yamaguchi....

Bittersweet shomin-geki drama by Keigo Kimura...

Melodrama by Kiyoshi Saeki...

During the mayoral election, two ex-prisoners decide to replace the lucky pen of an annoying candidate with a mini-bomb....

Yano, a progressive individual who seeks to overcome strength with gentleness and confronts physical power with moral principles, faces off against a man protecting jujitsu in the twilight of Kikyōgahara!...

1955 Japanese movie...

Housewives from four neighboring households casually gather at an old well at Kaneko's house in a residential area on the outskirts of Tokyo. If two people come together, they will talk about selling kimonos, if three people come together, they will ...

A hotshot investigator solves a series of gruesome murders in this exciting and dark classic....

At a tavern in Shimoda, Ronin Tadakazu Yamakawa saved a samurai girl named Mino from the clutches of the Benten family. When Mino's father, Kyohei Tsuchihashi, is murdered by unknown assailants, Tadakazu is summoned to Akane-ya, the landlord of this ...

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Period film about a feudal era judge living in Edo...

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Yuki cares for a sick old man Katakura who kept her mother as his mistress. Now she is the object of his ugly desires. When she falls in love with a young man Jun her long oppressed mind leads her to commit a murder with Jun for Katakura’s enormous f...