Kanjūrō Arashi Movies

The masked avenger Kurama Tengu is linked to a plot to bring down the Tokugawa shogunate, but is it really our hero, or an imposter?

1959 Japanese film, originally released in two parts.

In 1941, overpopulated Japan faces an economic boycott and its armed forces push further to the south. And despite negotiations between Japan and the...

Ninkyo with Kôji Tsuruta. An elderly yakuza brother tries to clear an underling’s name.

Part 3 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, amoral, but not evil chinpira (Bunta Sugawara and...

Film concerning warring yakuza families.

Ryō Hagiwara movie

Japanese noir.

A fairly entertaining yarn told in somewhat broad strokes with Wakayama playing against type as a reformed-gambler-turned- Christian minister. Of...

Masked avenger Kurama Tengu and his young sidekick try to stop a mysterious adversary from assassinating a group of young warriors who want to bring...

During the naval battle of Midway in WWII, the battleship Mutsu was in its home port in Japan. The ship's officers and crew were frustrated at not...

Japanese film.

A high-ranking yakuza rises to national notoriety.

When the aging leader of the yakuza gang Maeda-gumi decides to retire, many of the gang members have no confidence in the young man he has chosen to...

First ninkyo yakuza picture at Toei directed by Teruo Ishii

A travelling group of young people running a pirate radio station from a small truck encounter an eccentric elderly couple who are on the run from...