Yoshiko Yashioji Movies

Being acquainted with the bride's uncle, a famed private detective is invited to a wedding ceremony. The groom's family is moneyed and owns large...

After the Onin War ended in 1477, Kyoto was left in ashes and the nation was in complete disorder. Bands of roving samurai called the "nobushi"...

A young, feisty woman named Osome searches for her true love in the midst of a family crisis.

This remake of Satomi Hakkenden is the most requested of all Toei movies and features some of the greatest special effects ever filmed. Set in the...

1962 Japanese movie

A popular dance master in Edo meets a yakuza man, and the maddened master is killed in the end of their tremendous love affair. The master becomes a...

A fellow member of the company named Hanjiro tells Koharu, an actress in a traveling theatrical troupe, about a keepsake folding fan that his lost...

The long-awaited Hakkenshi arrive at Takita Castle, which is saddened by successive defeats.

1954 Japanese movie

9th film in the series about Lord Mito

Harima Aoyama (Chiyonosuke Azume) was a young hatamoto (samurai bannerman) to the Shogun. He seduced his commoner house maid Okiku (Hibari). He...

One of the most popular history-based characters is back when Magistrate Saemonojo Toyama no Kinsan investigates the tragic shipwreck of the...

2nd film in the Eight Brave Brothers trilogy

The story of five easygoing Yakuza who come together to save the live of a young innocent girl, Oichi, from an evil vassal.