Kusuo Abe Movies

Near the end of the shogunate in Japan, Katsura Shogoro and his fellow samurai from the southwestern domain of Choshu enter the dojo of Saito Yakuro,...

Adaptation of Mito Kōmon.

Early film by Eiichi Kudô.

Tsukitaro, a young man who comes to Edo, meets a blind girl named Ochiyo. Ochiyo’s father, the grinder Yasujiro, was asked to sharpen a sword...

1961 Japanese movie

Reimagining of the Ten'ichibō Incident.

The long-awaited Hakkenshi arrive at Takita Castle, which is saddened by successive defeats.

In postwar Japan, a new teacher, Miyamoto Yasuko, is discovered by her estranged daughter, Fukuoka Shōko, at a high school. As Yasuko confronts...

Sinza who is secretly the well known "Sea Glow Burglar", gives to the poor the money he takes from the bad lords and greedy merchants, who live just...

The rise of the famed gambler.

Japanese film.

1962 Japanese movie.

The first film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass.

Kind of the Japanese equivalent of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, this film is a fictionalized version of the gang battle in the later Edo period,...