Kusuo Abe Movies

After discovering a slaughtered corpse, the investigating team of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department began canvassing the area around the crime...

A state-sponsored film centered on Shinsaku Takasugi’s theories on coastal defense.

2nd film in the Eight Brave Brothers trilogy

The serial killing of a samurai each night by strangulation at various temples confounds investigators and brings a chill to the residents of Edo....

Based on a radio drama.

The sole survivor of a shipwreck pursues the whereabouts of his friends’ missing family members in Edo.

Jidaigeki film from 1941

A classic battle between good and evil pits an unscrupulous fortuneteller who has been preying on the good citizens of Edo against a master-less...

Bunkichi disguises himself as a yakuza to solve a mysterious death.

Second film of Makino's Nihon Kyokakuden series set in Osaka's harbor. The series also known as "The Domain" Each a stand alone film in it's own,...

When Katsukawa, a low ranking vassal, learns that his greedy superior, Tatewaki, has hatched a plan to expand his territory, he and his comrades...

Osaka in the early 1600s, aftermath of the historical Battle of Sekigahara; a group of orphan children are wandering through the battlefield...

Sugimoto Gonkuro is travelling along from Tosa to Edo. On his journey he will meet both good and bad people.

The third part of the story about feudal boss Jirocho and his underlings.

An all-star cast highlights this Jidai-Geki classic. Set in the samurai era, this is the tale of period Yakuza. One of the real classics in this...

An injured Edo official is rescued by a vassal whose appearance is exactly like himself, and swears to sweep out the criminals from the town on his...

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