Gen Shimizu Movies

Two amiable samurai wind up on opposite sides of the vendetta between Lord Asano's retainers and the family of Lord Kira that led to the famous...

Can a sinful man change and find peace? It's unlikely in gang-plagued Japan. Jokichi of Mikogami, a drifter (and hired sword), goes straight after...

Japan, 1643, as the Kato clan of Aizu falls from power two brave samurai will settle a dispute in the time-honored tradition of their clan, by...

A woman remembers her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.

Prisoners with special skills from all over Japan are sent to the battlefront on a mission.

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 comedic tale that follows several quirky individuals who navigate the twists and turns of their daily lives.

In turbulent 16th-century Japan, the leaders of a minor fief have their child taken from them as a political hostage. His mother and his clan endure...

The story of a lone wolf struggling with human compassion and duty.

Thriller drama by Kon Ichikawa

Makino Masahiro film starring Okada Mariko

The beautiful daughter of a merchant with a penchant for danger proves to be too much to handle for her worried father. Disguising herself as a man...

An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.

Farmer Abare Goemon is confronted by brigand-like samurai. He raises an army of farmers to fight them and does so brilliantly. When Lord Asakura sees...

It's a story of the life of a man who advocated the necessity of sex education to children, which was unusual at the time, solely opposed to the...

Tells of the feelings and sufferings of a young girl with an incurable paralytic disease.

The sequel to Daibosatsu tôge (1960) and the second of the trilogy follows the adventures of Ryunosuke Tsukue after he is blinded.