Naoko Kubo Movies

After surviving the slaughter of many Christians 350 years ago, a samurai denounces God for ignoring the pleas of believers. He sells his soul to...

The first film in the 2 part series about Ryuzen, a renegade martial-arts priest who, in addition to breaking all the commandments against sex and...

A story about love triangle between mother and daughter relation...

Five years after the end of the Second World War, Reikichi, a repatriated veteran, translates love letters for Japanese women to American GIs, while...

A crime film released in 1965

The first of four "Comic Storyteller' features.

After a successful robbery the culprits, from very different backgrounds, at once turn on each other.

A good set-in-per-WW2 ninkyô type film with outstanding performances.

The harrowing journey of Kinu Wada, a young woman who is sold into prostitution to pay her family's debts.

Just when you think Kyoshiro's life can't get any stranger, someone starts running around raping and murdering, and leaving notes proudly proclaiming...

34th year of Meiji (1901). Japanese gangster Shuntaro Hibiki is forced to work for the police to find out who robbed a truck full of gold.

A fugitive christian "saint" (female, of course!) and a sadistic drug-addled princess both have their eye on Kyoshiro. The fact that a bunch of...

Young Lord Taihei goes to Edo to find the lost family treasure, a plover incense burner, under the disguise of a ronin.

A suspenseful Ninja fantasy based on Shiba Ryotaro's novel, woven with the mysterious fate and romance of Shinzo and a beautiful Princess who find...

A maritime action drama set aboard a whaling ship rocked by a labor-management conflict. Shintoho's second color feature.

The second "Comic Storyteller" feature.

1962 Japanese movie

Japanese comedy film.

Blind masseur Zatoichi is nursed back to health by a young woman after he is shot by a gang member. Zatoichi, who had come to the village to repay a...