In the turbulent last days of the Edo period, Kawai Tsugunosuke, a Japanese samurai serving the Makino clan of Nagaoka, dreamt of independence ...

Genre: Drama,History

Actors:Koji Yakusho, Kyōko Kagawa, Min Tanaka, Takako Matsu, Tatsuya Nakadai

The four Takezawa sisters discover that their father has an illegitimate child so they hire a private detective to investigate.

Genre: Comedy,Drama

Actors:Eri Fukatsu, Hitomi Kuroki, Kyoko Fukada, Shinobu Ôtake, Tatsuya Nakadai

Rin Jyoshima lost her father to death-by-gambling; years later, she’s grown up in the Kosugi household and has fallen victim to gambling herself.

Genre: Crime,Drama

Actors:Kanako Higuchi, Keiko Oginome, Masahiro Motoki, Rino Katase, Tatsuya Nakadai

The basic story in Love under the Crucifix is about Ogin, daughter of a tea master, who are both Christians in feudal Japan. Ogin falls in love ...

Genre: Drama,History,Romance

Actors:Ganjirō Nakamura II, Ineko Arima, Mieko Takamine, Osamu Takizawa, Tatsuya Nakadai

A ronin desperately seeks a way out of financial straits; he allies with the Tosa clan under the ruthless leader Takechi, who quickly takes advantage.

Genre: Action,Drama,History

Actors:Mitsuko Baisho, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yūjirō Ishihara, Yukio Mishima

The blind masseuse is targeted by the leader of a powerful yakuza group while also fending off a jealous husband bent on revenge. Zatoichi tours ...

Genre: Action,Adventure,Drama

Actors:Masayuki Mori, Reiko Ōhara, Shinnosuke Ikehata, Tatsuya Nakadai

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 ...

Genre: Action,Adventure,Drama

Actors:Matsumoto Hakuō II, Shima Iwashita, Takashi Yamaguchi, Tatsuya Nakadai, Tetsuro Tamba

Onimasa is the egocentric boss of a small yakuza clan on Shikoku Island, whose criminal duties conflict with his self-image as a chivalrous ...

Genre: Action,Crime,Drama

Actors:Akiko Kana, Masako Natsume, Shima Iwashita, Tatsuya Nakadai, Tetsuro Tamba

A university student moves into an apartment building and becomes involved with a waitress. The landlord then attempts to evict the tenants and ...

Genre: Crime,Drama

Actors:Asao Sano, Fumio Watanabe, Ineko Arima, Seiji Miyaguchi, Tatsuya Nakadai

Furuta Oribe is ordered to become tea master under Toyotomi Hideyoshi after his teacher Sen no Rikyū, the former tea master, was ordered to ...

Genre: Drama,History

Actors:Matsumoto Hakuō II, Rentaro Mikuni, Rie Miyazawa, Tatsuya Nakadai, Toshiya Nagasawa

The tragic, true story about Hachikō, an Akita dog who was loyal to his master, Professor Ueno, even after Ueno’s death.

Genre: Drama,Family

Actors:Kaoru Yachigusa, Mako Ishino, Tatsuya Nakadai, Toshinori Omi, Toshiro Yanagiba

Shakespeare’s King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an ageing warlord divides his ...

Genre: Action,Drama,History

Actors:Akira Terao, Daisuke Ryū, Jinpachi Nezu, Mieko Harada, Tatsuya Nakadai

The president of the Japanese National Railways is found dead during a period in which train service is plagued by numerous layoffs, strikes and ...

Genre: Drama

Actors:Akio Miyabe, Ichirō Nakatani, Isao Hashimoto, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yōko Asaji

Akira Kurosawa’s lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging warlord, in order ...

Genre: Action,Drama,History,War

Actors:Hideji Ōtaki, Jinpachi Nezu, Kenichi Hagiwara, Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki

Depicts the bloody siege of the fortress of Port Arthur, one of the most strongly fortified positions in the world, during the Russo-Japanese War ...

Genre: Drama,History,War

Actors:Kenji Niinuma, Makoto Satō, Masayuki Yuhara, Tatsuya Nakadai, Teruhiko Aoi

Yataro Tanigawa, a one-eyed hired assassin, impresses yakuza boss Gomyo Kiyoemon with his skill. Gomyo hires Tanigawa as his bodyguard, or ...

Genre: Action,Adventure,Crime,Drama

Actors:Ayumi Ishida, Isao Natsuyagi, Keiko Kishi, Makoto Fujita, Tatsuya Nakadai

Nakadai is an English teacher at a local school. He’s put-upon like the patron figure of dozens of films and televisions shows. Viewers who are ...

Genre: Drama

Actors:Eiji Okada, Tatsuya Nakadai, Tonpei Hidari, Yoko Shimada

An evil feudal lord rapes a village girl on her wedding night and proceeds to ruin her and her husband’s lives. After she’s ...

Genre: Animation,Drama,Fantasy

Actors:Aiko Nagayama, Shigako Shimegi, Takao Itō, Tatsuya Nakadai

After going to prison for killing the boss of the Kanno gang, Seji Iwahashi (Tatsuya Nakadai) gets released early — only to find that his ...

Genre: Crime,Drama

Actors:Komaki Kurihara, Kyōko Enami, Noboru Andō, Tatsuya Nakadai, Toshio Kurosawa

The story takes place in feudal Japan, when any commerce with the rest of the world was strictly prohibited. An idealist suddenly appears in an ...

Genre: Crime,Drama

Actors:Kei Satō, Komaki Kurihara, Shigeru Kōyama, Tatsuya Nakadai, Wakako Sakai

The story of Ryoma Sakamoto, considered to be the architect behind the downfall of the Tokugawa shogunate. He was considered an outlaw by his own ...

Genre: Action,Adventure,Drama

Actors:Keiju Kobayashi, Kinnosuke Nakamura, Sayuri Yoshinaga, Tatsuya Nakadai, Toshirō Mifune

A Japanese racing driver for Nissan named Godai (Yujiro Ishihara) have a rivalry with a French driver named Pierre (Jean-Claude Drouot). Godai is ...

Genre: Action,Adventure

Actors:Emmanuelle Riva, Ruriko Asaoka, Tatsuya Nakadai, Toshirō Mifune, Yūjirō Ishihara

A pair of down-on-their-luck swordsmen arrive in a dusty, windblown town, where they become involved in a local clan dispute. One, previously a ...

Genre: Action,Comedy

Actors:Akira Kubo, Etsushi Takahashi, Tadao Nakamaru, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yuriko Hoshi

The ghost of a samurai’s wife takes revenge on her husband.

Genre: Horror

Actors:Junko Ikeuchi, Keiko Awaji, Mariko Okada, Mayumi Ozora, Tatsuya Nakadai

A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.

Genre: Drama,Science Fiction

Actors:Eiji Okada, Kyôko Kishida, Machiko Kyō, Mikijiro Hira, Tatsuya Nakadai

Ryunosuke, a gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate rule, has no moral code and kills without remorse. ...

Genre: Action,Drama

Actors:Michiyo Aratama, Tatsuya Nakadai, Toshirō Mifune, Yōko Naitō, Yūzō Kayama

In the midst of an attempt to take over his company, a powerhouse executive is hit with a huge ransom demand when his chauffeur’s son is ...

Genre: Crime,Drama,Mystery,Thriller

Actors:Isao Kimura, Kyōko Kagawa, Tatsuya Mihashi, Tatsuya Nakadai, Toshirō Mifune

Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa’s tightly paced, beautifully composed “Sanjuro.” In ...

Genre: Action,Comedy,Drama

Actors:Keiju Kobayashi, Reiko Dan, Tatsuya Nakadai, Toshirō Mifune, Yūzō Kayama

A dying businessman intends to will his fortune to his three illegitimate children, whose whereabouts are unknown, so a bevy of lawyers and ...

Genre: Drama

Actors:Keiko Kishi, Seiji Miyaguchi, Sō Yamamura, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yūsuke Kawazu

Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemployed, and with no family, he hopes to find a ...

Genre: Action,Drama,History

Actors:Akira Ishihama, Masao Mishima, Shima Iwashita, Tatsuya Nakadai, Tetsuro Tamba