Jun Usami Movies

In this film in the long running series, Tange Sazen and his friends are asked to guard a dragon-shaped incense burner that holds the key to hidden...

Three young yakuza, Fujitaro, Matsugoro and Kanjuro, travel the country fighting evil.

The eighth film in the "master detective with seven faces" series. Bannachi patrols the town in his taxi when he sees a man heading into Shiodome...

Ichibei is assigned by Shogun Tokugawa to prevent the sale of a Dutch ships-load of rifles to the hostile Shogun Satsuma. On his mission he meets a...

Detective Tarao investigates the deaths of police officers who were involved in solving a kidnapping case.

When a theater producer Kurato is murdered in the audience on opening night, Inspector Kawano investigates the prop pistols used on stage, but all...

Newly graduated Miyamoto Otone is to inherit a fortune from a distant relative on the condition that she marries Takato Shunsaku, a man she has never...

Kinnosuke of Toyama sets out on a private mission to clear his father’s name for a crime he did not commit.

Third part in Tadashi Sawashima's Theater of Life trilogy.

A suspense work based on the "Miyagi Incident," an attempted coup d'etat led by some officers working for the Ministry of the Defense and the General...

A war propaganda film centered on the mobilization of student soldiers.

Teruo Ishii portrays the bitter conflict over the right to develop land in a gripping and humorous way. Nakagami, the head of the Kanto Joseikai, is...

A national policy film advocating for increased production of aluminum for use in aircraft materials.

In the fourth film in this exciting series, and the first since losing his left eye, Yagyu Jubei is charged again with the task of protecting the...

Friendship between good samurais and aborigines in Hokkaido.

A drama about relations between Japanese immigrants and the indigenous Ainu on Hokkaido, the most northerly island of Japan. From a novel by Taijun...

While a music festival was in an uproar over the theft of a prized instrument, a massive music event organized by a gang of orphaned punks was held...

The Domain: Severed Relations

Early film directed by Eiichi Kudô.