Takamaru Sasaki Movies

First movie of the Inu series directed by Tokuzō Tanaka

Yagyu Jubei must protect the Yagyu scroll that holds the secret of the infamous assassination plotted by the Tokugawa government 30 years ago.

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

Go master Matashichiro Ryuzoji, during the game, was killed in anger by the Lord of the Nabeshima clan, Hizen-no-kami. The mother of the murdered...

Parent apathy to sexual education leads to various troubles for the young cast.

Japanese life during the past thirty-five turbulent years is depicted in this film through the eyes of two police detectives. One is Henmi, who comes...

Newly graduated Miyamoto Otone is to inherit a fortune from a distant relative on the condition that she marries Takato Shunsaku, a man she has never...

After World War II life in Japan was hard. There was lawlessness, rapine, never enough food or money. One girl, raped by three men, called out the...

Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki

Part of the Queen Bee series.

First Moonlight Mask theatrical film.

Ken Takakura's screen debut, following his admission into Toei ranks via the studio's annual New Faces program, came surprisingly enough in this pair...

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

In 1730, the Tokugawa Shogunate orders the Yagyu Clan to repair a huge shrine. Since it cannot refuse the Shogunate's request, the impoverished Yagyu...

Genji Kurô is a master swordsman and entrusted with protecting the ancient sword Kaen by the Otsubo family.

In the nine part Wataridori series (1959-1962), Kobayashi played a wanderer on Japan’s back roads with most of the accoutrements of a Western...

The hoodlum group tries to help a little printing factory against gangsters.

Every year, at the festival, familiar merchants such as Toraemon, a magic trick, Tokubei, a blowgun, Kaji, acrobatics, and Unsaibo, a ritual, gather...

The story of five easygoing Yakuza who come together to save the live of a young innocent girl, Oichi, from an evil vassal.