Naoko Kubo Movies

After surviving the slaughter of many Christians 350 years ago, a samurai denounces God for ignoring the pleas of believers. He sells his soul to...

A story about love triangle between mother and daughter relation...

Young Lord Taihei goes to Edo to find the lost family treasure, a plover incense burner, under the disguise of a ronin.

Five years after the end of the Second World War, Reikichi, a repatriated veteran, translates love letters for Japanese women to American GIs, while...

A maritime action drama set aboard a whaling ship rocked by a labor-management conflict. Shintoho's second color feature.

Japanese comedy film.

After a successful robbery the culprits, from very different backgrounds, at once turn on each other.

A crime film released in 1965

A good set-in-per-WW2 ninkyô type film with outstanding performances.

The first of four "Comic Storyteller' features.

Wandering samurai Nemuri Kyoshiro (Raizô Ichikawa) finds a bulls-eye on his back after befriending the shogunate's tightfisted financial...

Just when you think Kyoshiro's life can't get any stranger, someone starts running around raping and murdering, and leaving notes proudly proclaiming...

The second "Comic Storyteller" feature.

The first film in the 2 part series about Ryuzen, a renegade martial-arts priest who, in addition to breaking all the commandments against sex and...

One of the earliest of sukeban / girl boss type eiga

1960 Toei war movie.

Blind masseur Zatoichi is nursed back to health by a young woman after he is shot by a gang member. Zatoichi, who had come to the village to repay a...

The fourth and final "Comic Storyteller" feature.

The third "Comic Storyteller" feature. A comedy set in historic Edo.