Shima Iwashita

In the spring of Genroku 14 (1701), Oishi Kuranosuke (Tamura Masakazu), the chief retainer of the Asano family in Ako domain is shocked to learn ...

A young tofu maker, Eikichi comes from Kyoto to open a tofu shop in a friendly neighborhood. He meets there a feisty local girl Ofumi who ...

Ryô is a young leopard, Maki a rhythmical wave. The barrier between a teacher and a student gives way to the passionate embrace of a man and a ...

A suspense drama based on Baku Akae’s original work and starring Shima Iwashita. It’s the night of reunion for the first time in 15 ...

A story about love triangle between mother and daughter relation…

Recently released from prison for a murder sentence, a yakuza boss’s wife leaves Hong Kong for a fresh start, but a betrayal leads to her return.

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

The seventh movie of the series “Yakuza Ladies” focuses on a wife of a small Osaka family. She risks her life to protect her husband’s family and ...

The ukiyo-e (woodblock print) artist Sharaku is an enigmatic puzzle in the world of Japanese art. Working at an age when such masters of the ...

Turbulent life of Kiwa, the successor of the most prominent yakuza in Osaka, the Domoto Clan.

Kasuga’s husband gets arrested for a murder of his beloved protégé. She and her family investigate and find out he was trapped by greedy Nagoshi, ...

Set at the end of the feudal period. A woman spends most of her early life in prison, incarcerated by political opponents of her father. When she ...

It was five years ago when Minako spent a night with Sozo, younger brother of her ex-husband. She now lives in a local town with a rich old man ...

Two Jesuit priests encounter persecution when they travel to Japan in the 17th century to spread Christianity and search for their mentor.

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

When Sokichi stops providing his long-time lover Kikuyo enough money to pay for the care of their three young children, Kikuyo leaves the ...

Kumokiri Nizaemon, a former samurai warrior, has abandoned his class to become the leader of a gang of thieves. He leads his outlaws in an ...

An outlaw pushes the residents of Edo’s red light district to rebel against a growing number of stifling, moralistic laws.

Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year-old daughter. Gradually, he comes to realize that she should not be obliged to look after him for the ...

An unusual request for ritual suicide on a feudal lord’s property leads to the unwinding of a greater mystery that challenges the ...

Mod-sixties visuals and black humor mark this wild New Wave masterpiece about a vengeful contractor who hires a series of young killers to target ...