Michitarō Mizushima Movies

In this movie, Sashichi tries to catch a serial killer who kills his victims with shurikens.

Bunkichi disguises himself as a yakuza to solve a mysterious death.

It is the end of the Taisho era (1912-1926),and at the Hanazuki-tei theatre in Asakusa, the famous performance of storyteller Koiso Kikuji and perfor...

During the era of the third Tokugawa shogun, Iemitsu, to strengthen the shogunate, many daimyo clans that did not align with the central power were di...

Yakuza Ryuichi, nicknamed the Dragon-killer, went on a journey with his son Tatsuo after he lost his wife. Due to Tatsuo's sudden illness, Ryuichi had...

First movie of the Inu series directed by Tokuzō Tanaka

This is one of the many films based on the legend of Chuji Kunisada, a wandering gambler and a defender of the weak in the Edo period. In other words,...

Three men, the skilled ninja Ryuchi Kog, the deadly assassin and former drug detective Takeshi Hayato, and the criminal mastermind Ichiro Sakura work...

This little seen early work by Ichikawa was produced during the director's Shintoho period (1947-51). Written by Kaneto Shindô and featuring Ryô Ikebe...

The tale of real-life Yakuza boss Shimizu Jirocho is told from his earliest beginnings as a gambler on the road as he forms his gang and sets out on t...

Jirocho and his henchmen befriend Ishimatsu, a wanderer in Mishima.

The third part of the story about feudal boss Jirocho and his underlings.

Lost for 70 years until 2022, Shimizu’s second postwar film recalls Mr. Thank You as he frames the narrative in a familiar setting, tracking an autumn...

Based on Kazuo Taoka's autobiography, this film follows a Kobe gangster as he builds the small Yamaguchi-gumi into Japan's largest criminal clan.

He was married to his lover's butterfly and started a new residence. But good things do not last. In his uncle, Uzaemon in Kawashima, Yoshiji Akaji, Y...

During the 1880's a young swordsman, Saotome Gengo, on his way to Tokyo stops at an inn in a small town. But he does not know that his prowess has alr...

Japanese horror movie from 1937.

A unique action-packed drama that tells the story of a Yakuza man who craves blood like crazy, unaware that he has fallen into a trap set by his young...

Japanese film based on the life of Zen Master Tetsugen Doko.