Takeshi Katō Movies

A traveling ronin perceived as a fool impresses a samurai leader with his fishing skills and gains employment.

The early days of the Tokugawa shogunate are brought to light in this exciting historical tale of broken vows and violent swordplay. In an ambush the...

The action takes place in the highlands of the Chugoku region. While the owner of the Yazaki ranch is away, a gang of villains is trying to take over...

Set in post-war Japan, a group of five, four men and one woman, gathers in the basement of a butcher shop to dig up a cache of morphine buried during...

When Yumiko Tsuyama, a potter by profession, comes inquiring about a room for rent in an old mansion overlooking Osaka, she finds a bizarre...

Chiaki Onoda a young assisstant sound mixer is unhappy with his job, but otherwise he is enjoying life. He loves his cat, his friends, hunting for...

Based on the comic by George Akiyama

Terasaki, the new history teacher at the Senior High School, finds encouragement in the words of his Principal. "There are no bad children in this...

Based on crime fiction novel written by Seicho Matsumoto.

Based on the comic book series of the same name by Yûsuke Aoyagi.

A Hiromichi Horikawa movie

1962 Japanese movie

A timid salaryman is the subject of this black comedy.

A police procedural surrounding murder at a bookstore and the private lives of the cops trying to solve the case.

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "The Lower Depths" (1957).

A band of samurai warriors places a curse on a family fortune thus frustrating the heir 4 centuries later.

A woman fears for the safety of her fiance after his three brothers mysteriously disappear.

The melodramatic story of a pink crew’s tragi-comedic adventures on location. A fictionalized adaptation of set photographer Ichiro Tsuda's...

TV movie based on the novel "The Tale of Genji" by Murasaki Shikibu, which tells about the life of Prince Hikaru Genji, who was nicknamed "Shining"...