Kinya Kitaoji Movies

The year is 1805. Napoleon ruled Europe. Ienari is the 11th Tokugawa Shogun. An incident, which was an open official secret, took place on the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

Chuji and his family become the primary target of gangs in Nikko headed by Hasshu marshal Nakayama and boss Sukegoro Iioka. Chuji is then aided by...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

An entertaining youth drama, which tells about the struggle of a young swordsman Yamanaka Shikanoske (Kinya Kitaoji) and his friends who resist the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinya Kitaoji

Drawn by the exorbitantly high hourly wage of 112,000 Japanese yen, ten men and women gather at a mansion. Everyone thinks the simple psychology...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Fujiwara

Near the end of the nineteenth century, as the balance of power shifts from Shogunate towards the Emperor, Japan restlessly awaits the dawning of a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

The film tells the story of a man who was washed ashore on an uninhabited island after a ship wrecked by a storm, and after twelve years, he returned...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Kinya Kitaoji

Takeo (Kiniya Kitaoji), son of a wealthy car industry executive, is unhappy with his job and goes to Singapore to become a fisherman. At first...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Kinya Kitaoji

In 1929 the fossil of a 500,000 year old man is discovered in China. In 1941 the Japanese army confiscates this find, but during the war the remains...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Naoto Ogata

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Cast: Toshiaki Karasawa

Rokuheita Narumi is fascinated by oriental art and works as the director of the Saho Art Museum in Nara. His wife, Noriko, is unable to leave Tokyo,...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Kinya Kitaoji

Tatsuo, a reverent lumberjack, seeks to disrupt plans to build a marine park on his family land, instead promoting his traditions in reactionary ways.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinya Kitaoji

A vicious plot that would change the course of Japanese history is set in motion when assassins conspire to kill Iemitsu, the third shogun of the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Go Wakabayashi

The crescent shaped scar on his forehead is a license given him by the Shogun to kill anyone he deems to be a villain. A strong performance that...

Genre: Action

Cast: Hiro Komura

Genjuro’s crime was assassination, his punishment was to survive a faked execution and lose his home, lose his identity, and emerge as...

Genre: Action

Cast: Atsuo Nakamura

Two infantry regiments of the Imperial Japanese Army—210 men overall—tackled Mt. Hakkoda in the winter of 1902 to prepare for war with...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

Abandoned in the barren wasteland of Kyoto, a savage, enraged orphan does whatever it takes to survive in the wild. When he crosses paths with...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Masako Nozawa

Shonosuke Furukehashi (Hiroshi Tamaki) is a young samurai and the second son of Sozaemon (Bunchin Katsura) of Togane Domain, Kazusa Province....

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Cast: Hiroshi Tamaki

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Kinya Kitaoji

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Kinya Kitaoji

Set at the end of the feudal period. A woman spends most of her early life in prison, incarcerated by political opponents of her father. When she is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shima Iwashita

Though a farmer and his fellow villagers in this Japanese film resist the effort to turn the unspoiled region in which they live into a land...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

While Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political party, whose two executives stir up new tensions in...

Genre: Action

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

Jubei is a Japanese merchant who learns tricks from Western merchants to get ahead in the game.

Genre: History

Cast: Kinya Kitaoji

Oda Nobunaga and Nōhime were originally married to mend a hostile relationship between neighbouring regions. Unfortunately, they were like oil...

Genre: History

Cast: Takuya Kimura

The story of beautiful Christian nun, Kyoko who is the object of affection for two very different men - one the happy-go-lucky yakuza gangster,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Etsuko Shihomi

An exciting historical drama that dynamically depicts the life of Minamoto no Yoshitsune from the period of his stay on Mount Kurama to his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinya Kitaoji

Pure love story

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinya Kitaoji

The life story of Japan’s greatest leader, Tokugawa Ieyasu, whose shogunate ruled the nation for almost 300 years has never been told like this...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinya Kitaoji

Kanno is a Yakuza. He had to kill Matsuoka who betrayed their boss. Kanno knew Matsuoka had a 3-year-old daughter named Youko. Before he gave himself...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ken Takakura

A rural high school takes part in a mountain-climbing exercise and are caught in a sudden typhoon.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Takeshi (Takashi Tsukamoto), an Italian restaurant chef, and Ruri (Saki Aibu) could have been lovers, but Takeshi was too comfortable with their...

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Cast: Saki Aibu

An American scientist constructs a laser satellite with hopes of preventing any nuclear conflicts from occurring. However, after a fatal error from...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masashi Amenomori

Master swordsman and loya 'Hatamoto' (direct vassal to the Shogun), Saotome Mondonosuke, is sent to investigate an intrigue centering on the Date...

Genre: Action

Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

Shohei Kazama (Kinya Kitaoji), who travels all over the country and works as a special police chief, is new to the Iwaki Tokiwa Police Station in...

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Cast: Kinya Kitaoji

In the spring of Genroku 14 (1701), Oishi Kuranosuke (Tamura Masakazu), the chief retainer of the Asano family in Ako domain is shocked to learn that...

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Cast: Masakazu Tamura

In 1959, a body of a flight attendant of an international airline is found, strangled. Detective Rokuro Fujisawa takes charge of the investigation...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Takeshi Kitano

Based on the life of artist Yumeji Takehisa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinya Kitaoji

The struggles of a low-ranking samurai (Nakamura) coming to terms with the end of the Tokugawa shogunate and the end of Japan's feudal age with the...

Genre: History

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

Mito Domain Samurai Seki Tetsunosuke must pay the consequences for his role in the assassination of Great Elder Ii Naosuke. Based on true events.

Genre: History

Cast: Takao Osawa

Shiro Akitsu goes on a relentless search for his abducted 7-year-old daughter, with the aid of an Ainu dog summoned by a whistle she gave him.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

A very beautiful Japanese woman is in love with Persian carpets. She is being chased by lecherous Saburi Shin and a handsome young photographer....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shinsuke Ashida

After eight years in prison, Takeshi’s mission is a big heist from his own clan’s gambling parlor.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinya Kitaoji

A Japanese sailor finds a colony of Eskimos in the Arctic and decides to stay with them. He comes off at a certain moment to look for his luck in the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinya Kitaoji

A genius sushi chef travels to New York to battle it out with the local competition there.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koichi Domoto

Two young men are recruited into the Japanese air force just before outbreak of WW2 by the test pilot of Japans new super fighter - the Zero. The...

Genre: War

Cast: Jun Hashizume

Sabu and his pals hold a pauper's funeral for Sabu's mother. His brother Jiro arrives home, fresh out of jail, and Sabu pointedly states that Jiro is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

About small-time gangster Asakichi's chaotic life in the 1930s. His gambling addiction means that he must not continue working in the family...

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Shinkichi, a peasant employed as a cloth-dyer, has a dream: in the midst of the civil war which ravages Japan, he hopes to revive the long-banned...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

This is the true story of the last officially recorded case of adauchi, when a young man avenged the death of his father by brutally killing the...

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Cast: Tatsuya Fujiwara

In turbulent 16th-century Japan, the leaders of a minor fief have their child taken from them as a political hostage. His mother and his clan endure...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinya Kitaoji

Kazuhiko Kogure, who is a 2nd grade student in middle school, falls off from one of the school's rooftop. There were other male students on the roof...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masato Sakai

Sawatari Shusui saved Princess Hiroko of the Konoe family, who was about to be married to Tokugawa Tsunatoyo. However, Hiroko, a tomboy,...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kinya Kitaoji

The two ronin that Sawatari Mondonosuke saved were secret envoys from Ryukyu. They could not stand the tyranny of the Satsuma clan and were trying...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kinya Kitaoji

The one who hurriedly ascended the castle upon hearing news of Shogun Tsunayoshi's illness was Saotome Mondonosuke. However, instead of an illness,...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryūzō Hayashi

The Satsuma clan conspires with key figures in the shogunate to overthrow the government. However, the head inspector, Naito Yamashiro no Kami,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariko Fuji

One night, Sawatari Shusui saves a geisha named Osode from a ninja attack. Osode's mother is said to be carrying the child of the shogun,...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kinya Kitaoji

The one who hurriedly ascended the castle upon hearing news of Shogun Tsunayoshi's illness was Saotome Mondonosuke. However, instead of an illness,...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryūzō Hayashi

Mondosuke ventures alone into the land of Nagasaki. There, he encounters young lady named Kinue, the daughter of Nagasaki's former magistrate office...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinya Kitaoji

Sawatari Shusui was told about 7,000 ryo of buried gold by Osuke, who claimed to be a princess of the Fujiwara family. Shusui speculates that...

Genre: Action

Cast: Naoko Kawai

The great merchant of Kaga Daitokuya , had taken control of the domain with his wealth and by holding onto the weakness of Lord Maeda Tsunanori , and...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kinya Kitaoji

The life and times of Kûkai, a Japanese monk who studies Esoteric Buddhism in the far reaches of India, China and Tibet, then uses their...

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Cast: Kinya Kitaoji

The story of beautiful Christian nun, Kyoko who is the object of affection for two very different men - one the happy-go-lucky yakuza gangster,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Etsuko Shihomi

In the 14th year of the Genroku period, Asano, the head carpenter of Edo Castle, attacked Kira, the master of ceremonies, with a sword, leading to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yumi Asô

In this tale of bravery and honor among the roving gamblers of old Japan, the heroic Jirocho, Boss of the Tokaido is called upon to help a young...

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Cast: Kinya Kitaoji

Yakuza Gang War is at the height in North Kyūshū Area in the summer of 1950, particularly between the Okagen Group and the rising Hashiden...

Genre: Action

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

The 224-minute compilation edition of Battles Without Honor and Humanity compiles these four movies: Battles Without Honor and Humanity, Deadly...

Genre: Action

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

Final part of epic drama about war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Godai family through the Sino-Japanese War through...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Osamu Takizawa

Upon his arrival to Dragon Island, ronin Yagi Hanzo, is propositioned by various shady individuals representing rival gangs to lend his services to...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Hashizo Okawa

A swordsman must foil a minister's sinister plan to assassinate the shogun.

Genre: Action

Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

The story of two young men whose ambition is to become the personal bodyguards to the Shogun's uncle, Lord Mito Komon. Portrayed by a pair of up and...

Genre: Action

Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

The glittering Gran Tesoro, a city of entertainment beyond the laws of the government, is a sanctuary for the world’s most infamous pirates,...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kazuya Nakai

A woman works as a prostitute and attendant to make a living at a bathhouse. She is athletic and is an avid runner. She has met and adopted a white...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Reiko Nanjo

Repeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally finds a home as a Muraoka family hitman and falls in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

Yosuke Misaki used to be a promising prosecutor, but he suddenly quit his job. He begins a new career as a pianist. He knocks on the door of wealthy...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Masahiro Higashide

Vice Admiral Takajiro Ohnishi could see that Japan's defeat in WWII was inevitable. He came to realize that the only way to force a negotiated...

Genre: War

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Saotome, a sword master and guard of the Shogunate, pursues the mystery of a deadly aerial weapon that is responsible for the multiple deaths in town.

Genre: Action

Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

Ohno plays the role of Tarui Shotaro, an ordinary guy who dreamed of becoming a hero when he was a child, but now gets by as a part-time worker. The...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Satoshi Ohno

Recently released from prison for a murder sentence, a yakuza boss's wife leaves Hong Kong for a fresh start, but a betrayal leads to her return.

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Cast: Shima Iwashita

Friendship between good samurais and aborigines in Hokkaido.

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Cast: Kinya Kitaoji

A lord explores the lives of common people.

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Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

A young son of a master of the Kuwana clan gets disowned for his rebellious behavior. After he goes from the mountains to the ocean defeating the...

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Cast: Kinya Kitaoji

Tai Kato’s early 20th century set yakuza epic about an ordinary merchant girl (Hiroko Maki) who crosses paths with an assassin (Tetsuya...

Genre: Action

Cast: Hiroko Maki

After their father quarrels with local military men, Anju and Zushio are forced to flee, but they are captured and sold into slavery. When their...

Genre: History

Cast: Yoshiko Sakuma

Japan, 1948: Hiroki Matsukata stars as a man facing a nine year prison sentence. He incites prisoners of Shimane Prison to the biggest riot in jail...

Genre: Action

Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

A Japanese businessman is sent to Sri Lanka and meets a beautiful Japanese woman with a past. They befriend an old Japanese-Indian widow who has an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

A seemingly lazy salaryman is tasked with managing a company secret.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Mansai Nomura

During the Showa era, a young yakuza survives war and injury and rises to become a clan boss with the help and respect of his sworn brothers.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

A seamstress seeks the love of her life while helping a troubled couple.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Kinya Kitaoji

A couple died in Lake Tazawa in Akita Prefecture, in an apparent double suicide, the circumstances of which were unclear.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Kinya Kitaoji

One evening, a married couple comes to the Itami Law Office. Narumi Suzumura, six months pregnant, and her husband Takuya have come to ask Itami to...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Kinya Kitaoji

A Yasuzō Masumura film about a love affair starring Ayako Wakao. The literal title is The Two Who Got Wet.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

A bruised and battered corpse in Shibuya, Tokyo has the attention of the local cops. A veteran detective is assigned to the case. The last utterance...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Noriyuki Higashiyama

A tale of two best friends in the WWII era Japan. Takao is a young man enthusiastic about joining the navy to fight for his country. He convinces his...

Genre: War

Cast: Kinya Kitaoji

After a highly successful raid on Singapore Harbour, soldiers of Z Special Unit lead a new expedition in Singapore, with disastrous results.

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Howard

Part of the Bored Hatamoto series. The most popular samurai in Edo, Saotome Mondonosuke, known to most as the "Bored Hatamoto" is the only one who...

Genre: Action

Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

When Kanbe Nagakichi has his turf taken over by Ano-Toku, the father-in-law of his sworn brother Kira Nikichi sets in motion one of the most violent...

Genre: Action

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Set in Langkawi, Malaysia, professional scammers Dako (Masami Nagasawa), Boku-chan (Masahiro Higashide), and Richard (Fumiyo Kohinata) target the Fuu...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Masami Nagasawa

Adaptation of the novel by Kan Shimozawa.

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Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

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Cast: Ryūnosuke Tsukigata

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sonny Chiba

A story of revenge between two samurai families on the Igagoe Road. Araki Mataemon born in the province of Iga. He studied the art of the sword under...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiromi Hanazono

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chiyonosuke Azuma

One night, Genjiro Tsurumi, a former ronin comes across a man being attacked by a group of assassins. The dying man is an official secret agent...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinya Kitaoji

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

Biopic of Date Masamune. Young Masamune upon learning of the death of Nobunaga decides that he is the man to fill those sainted clogs. The fastest...

Genre: History

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

Bored Hatamoto film

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Cast: Kinya Kitaoji

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinya Kitaoji

Toei studios last ninkyo eiga of the 70's.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ken Takakura

Master swordsman and loyal vassal Saotome Mondonosuke goes on a mission to find a missing princess.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

Yumechiyo, a geisha house madam recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, yearns to do something constructive with the little time she has left....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

Monster Strike: The Movie serves as a prequel to the net anime series based on the game of the same name. The anime tells the story of Ren, who...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Lynn

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Cast: Kazuya Takahashi

Police detective Heiji is assigned to catch the masked Maboroshi gang of robbers who have terrorized all of Edo, leaving few clues as to their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinya Kitaoji