Akira Kishii Movies

The final film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass.

In 1691 a terrible fire broke out in Denmacho, Yotsuya, burning down the towns around it, up to the shores of Shibaura. A month and a half later,...

Jidaigeki by Tai Kato

A musical comedy about a spirited orphan who forms a youth baseball team and gets caught up in a mix of sports, singing, and crime when he tries to...

Three sisters earn money for their bossy mother by being samisen street musicians. This means mainly playing a banjo type instrument for tips in...

Kingoro Yanagiya's 100th film.

This is the second installment of the trilogy based on Japan’s greatest novel “The Great Bodhisattva Pass”, following the life and...

Airline captain saves passengers from a brutal murderer on a plane during four hours of terror.

1948 Japanese movie

The second film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass.

A continuation of the prior film (影法師).

First part of the famous Dai-bosatsu toge trilogy, based on Kaizan Nakazato’s unfinished long series of novels (41 books, written from 1913 to...

Bored Hatamoto film #17

1945 Japanese movie

Based on the comic by Ichio Matsushita

The story is a dramatization of the Japanese folklore legend of Momotaro, the Peach Boy, who with his trusted companions of dog, monkey and pheasant...

It's fighting fires and swordsmen with a touch of music in this free-for-all of action and excitement combining the talents of Japan's most popular...

1958 Toei movie.