Shinobi (2005)

Director: Ten Shimoyama

Starring: Yukie Nakama, Minoru Terada, Renji Ishibashi, Tak Sakaguchi

Based on the novel by Futaro Namada set in the 1600s, a powerful shogunate stirs up the feud between two ninja clans in the hopes of consolidating his... Read more

Samurai Saga (1959)

Director: Hiroshi Inagaki

Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Yoko Tsukasa, Akira Takarada, Keiko Awaji, Seizaburo Kawazu

Cyrano de Bergerac is given the Japanese Samurai treatment with the legendary Toshiro Mifune as the large-nosed warrior with a poet's heart. He is ut... Read more

Resurrection of Golden Wolf (1979)

Director: Toru Murakawa

Starring: Jun Fubuki, Kei Sato, Yusaku Matsuda, Sonny Chiba

This thrill-packed Japanese noir follows the exploits of misleadingly mild-mannered Asakura (Yusaku Matsuda), an accountant by day and a ruthless kill... Read more

Lupin the Third: The Secret of Mamo (1978)

Director: Yasuo Otsuka, Soji Yoshikawa

In this prequel to classic anime 'The Castle of Cagliostro', iconic anime character and master thief, Lupin III, is dead, though the skeptical Inspect... Read more

Yakuza Deka 1: Secret Police (1970)

Director: Yukio Noda

Starring: Sonny Chiba, Tetsuro Tanpa

Sonny Chiba plays a hard-bitten undercover cop trying to win the confidence of two rival yakuza gangs in order to bust their illegal drugs operations.... Read more

Yakuza Deka 2: The Assassin (1970)

Director: Yukio Noda

Starring: Sonny Chiba, Ryohei Uchida, Fumio Watanabe, Osman Yusuf, Giant Baba

Sonny Chiba returns as undercover cop Hayata. This time he's after a marijuana syndicate, and he's going to have to go very undercover to net these g... Read more

The Killing Machine (1975)

Director: Norifumi Suzuki

Starring: Sonny Chiba, Yutaka Nakajima, Kei Sato, Etsuko Shihomi

Following the end of World War II, former Japanese soldier and Shaolin martial arts master Doshin (Sonny Chiba) returns to Osaka after working as a sp... Read more

Red Lion (1969)

Director: Kihachi Okamoto

Starring: Toshiro Mifune, Shima Iwashita, Etsushi Takahashi, Ito Yonosuke

The always mesmerizing Toshiro Mifune plays an enthusiastic, if dim-witted imperial emissary, sent to break the good news about the fall of the shogun... Read more

Godzilla: Tokyo S.O.S (2003)

Director: Masaaki Tezuka

Starring: Noboru Kaneko, Miho Yoshioka

Mechagodzilla, the superior-armed, state-of-the-art, all-robot version of Godzilla, is undergoing repairs after his devastating battle against the wor... Read more

Azumi 2: Death or Love (2005)

Director: Shusuke Kaneko

Starring: Aya Ueto, Yuma Ishigaki, Chiaki Kuriyama, Shun Oguri, Kazuki Kitamura

Continuing the adventures of diminutive sword-slinging assassin Azumi (Aya Ueto), now on the run with her fellow killer Nagara (Yuma Ishigaki) and bei... Read more