Yoshio Inaba

A cynical samurai is left as the sole survivor to fulfill a plot to assassinate the puppet of a villain intent on usurping the shogunate in the ...

A taut, economical policier-cum-gang-hostage thriller.

Kokubu, captain of his university’s kendo team, is a mystery to those who know him: An ascetic dedicated to a point of obsession with the ...

A lifetime story of a woman who stubbornly lives in a poor mountain village in post-war Japan.

When a married man begins an affair with a woman from his past, he comes to suspect her young son intends to murder him.

[Period covered: 1616] On May 8th, 1615 the summer campaign of Osaka has reached the climax. This film takes place immediately following ...

Sixth film in the series. A little boy who just wants to be a carpenter is at the center of a plot that might topple — or save — a ...

The Son of the Black Mass returns in this ninth installment in Daiei’s longstanding Nemuri Kyoshiro series. This time Raizo Ichikawa as ...

Depicts the bloody siege of the fortress of Port Arthur, one of the most strongly fortified positions in the world, during the Russo-Japanese War ...

In Edo-period Japan, Shingo is born the son of an assassin who was executed for murdering her lord’s concubine. Decades later, his adoptive ...

Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemployed, and with no family, he hopes to find a ...

A samurai answers a village’s request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai ...