Ruriko Asaoka Movies

In the Edo period, a nameless ronin accepts an assignment to go to a mountain pass and wait. Near the pass he stops at an inn where a collection of ch...

Kon Ichikawa's retelling of the classic true story of Samurai honor. When a young clan lord is forced to commit seppuku (ritual suicide),his loyal fo...

1962 Japanese movie

A Nikkatsu Action film with Yujiro Ishihara as the head of a small shipping company who gets harassed by the yakuza.

Fourth installment of Nikkatsu's "Drifter" series, with Kobayashi Akira.

Hideo Ishizaki, who was painting on the shore of the lake, saves a woman named Keiko.

1962 Japanese movie

A guilt-haunted samurai warrior attempts to stop a massacre taking place.

East-West Transportation, headquartered in Tokyo, operates daily scheduled cargo flights on the Tokaido Road from Tokyo to Osaka and back, as the name...

Kenichi Horie is determined to challenge his family, the law and the nature crossing the Pacific to America in a small sailboat. Despite his careful p...

1962 Japanese movie

Set during the declining years of the Tokugawa shogunate, Shadow Hunters details the questionably noble exploits of three ronin who act as "Shadow Hun...

A young wealthy widow becomes sexually involved with her father-in-law, while harboring a destructive obsession with the family gardener.

A celebrity, dissatisfied with his personal and professional lives, impulsively leaves fast-paced Tokyo to deliver a much-needed jeep to a remote vill...

A youth lyrical story of pure love of a girl who grew up in the Kyoto Gion quarter, with a geisha mother and sisters Maiko and a college student.

A young yakuza hitman named Goro does a job and needs to hideout away from Tokyo for a while. He hangs out with loose women and hard men and always ma...

Strife between competing lumber mills.

On the road again, Torajiro meets a kindred spirit in Lily, a lounge singer.

It is the end of the Taisho era (1912-1926),and at the Hanazuki-tei theatre in Asakusa, the famous performance of storyteller Koiso Kikuji and perfor...