Ryōnosuke Azuma Movies

In 11th-century feudal Japan, following the exile of an idealistic governor, his wife and children are separated by slave traders; the children,...

When the wife of a 17th-century Kyoto scrollmaker is falsely accused of having an affair with his best employee, the pair flee the city and find...

Itarō abandons his life as a hatamoto to become a yakuza.

Ishimatsu of Mori, from his early days leading up to his joining with Shimizu Jirocho, Boss of the Tokaido where he made his mark in history through...

During Japan's Warring States period three young Tokugawa vassals head their separate ways after Takeda Shingen's forces overran their castle. When...

A series of murders surrounds the 70,000 ryō in buried treasure hidden by the Kanayama Magistrate.

Satoko is a mistress by trade or fate: when her master, the silkscreen artist of the Kohoan Temple in Kyoto, dies, she is given to the temple's...

Film by director Kenji Misumi

1956 Daiei movie

In one of Japan's most frequently-told ghost stories, a murdered wife returns in an act of vengeance.