Renji Ishibashi

Sakai Nobunari an Elder in ‘Honmaru’ (or the main enclosure) and Mizuno Tadakuni an Elder in ‘Nishinomaru’ (or the ...

A noble samurai serving the Shogun as ‘Kogi Kaishaku-nin’ (Official Executioner) is the target of a plot by the evil Yagyu Clan to ...

Iuemon is left master less after his master, Lord Asano, attempts to kill the treacherous Lord Kira and out of desperation and due to the extreme ...

A Choice between Loyalty or Duty of the Samurai! Can the heartlessness of society crush the honor of an individual? In the spring of the 18th ...

Ryo Masuda is a washed up adult video director without a leading actress. Now, he has to find someone to re-place her quick, so he can produce ...

Jinsei Tsuji’s first film.

Nobuhiko Obayashi, director of the cult horror/comedy “House,” gives his unique spin on the true story of Sada Abe, who strangled her ...

Wada (Masahiro Motoki), a salary man, is enlisted to venture off to China to investigate a potential Jade mine. After his arrival, Wada ...

Kintaro is a reformed delinquent, the former leader of a biker gang who has gone straight. Working at a construction company, his unorthodox ...

A meek agent at the Showa Life Insurance company receives a phone call from a customer who says that she’s planning to commit suicide and ...

Fearless Edo-period police inspector Hanzo Itami, nicknamed The Razor, has developed his own unique way of extracting information for his ...

Blind masseur and master swordsman Zatoichi finds a robbed and fatally wounded pregnant woman, whose baby he delivers before she dies. He takes ...

A survivor of the tragic mass suicides on Tokashiki Island in 1945 falls in love with a near-mute motorcycle engineer.

An unknown future. A boy confesses to the murder of another in an all-boy juvenile detention facility. More an exercise in style than ...

Fumiya owes 5 million yen to a female load shark for a gambling debt, while having affair an with Mrs. Hosoi who offers him 5 million to murder ...

The wealthy president of a company has built up an unpayable debt to a local crime lord, and to escape punishment he sells his famous dancer wife ...

After Kunisada’s Yakuza leader and father figure is brutally murdered, he and his best friend go on a two-man mission to avenge his death, ...

A barkeeper saves a Yakuza boss’ life and thus makes his way up in the organization. However, his fear of nothing soon causes problems.

When her husband is betrayed by his fellow yakuza and jailed, his wife takes over and fights to prevent his expulsion from the clan.

A new magistrate in the town of Horisoto—widely reputed to be the most lawless township in Japan, uses guile and his opponents’ own ...

Junko was born with a type of ESP called pyrokinesis which she can use to incinerate anyone and anything at will. Junko is secretly in love with ...

A professional scammer is hired by a wealthy young businessman to find a hidden treasure looted from the Bank of Japan and supposedly stashed ...

A widower and his daughter deal with the death of the man’s wife.

Kotone (Tomoka Kurotani) is the wife of Mitsuru Kiba (Kazushige Nagashima), boss of the Kiba gang in the Saikyo Alliance. She hides a girl named ...

A seemingly random series of bombings in a provincial city. The latest target is a public bus route. Detective Chaya chased terrorists and ...

The landlord of a boarding house in 1923 Tokyo, is keen on spying on the bizarre close encounters taking place beneath his roof. One day he sees ...

Near the end of Japanese civil war, several disgraced ronin living in Edo’s red light district attempt to regain their honor by defending a ...

A successful doctor, Yukio’s picture perfect life is gradually wrecked, and taken over by his avenging twin brother, who bumps off his ...

Ryūichi and his small gang of Triad vie for control of the Japanese underworld in a crime-ridden Shinjuku quarter while Detective Jojima tries to ...