
6.3
Gambler’s Farewell
IMDb: 6.3 1968 91 min
The story of men devoted to the yakuza lifestyle and their struggles during a time of fading yakuza power.

5.6
Dogora
IMDb: 5.6 1964 83 min
A floating amorphous life-form descends from the atmosphere to consume carbon in the form of diamonds.

7.3
New Tale of Zatoichi
IMDb: 7.3 1963 91 min
Wishing to find peace, Zatoichi travels to his old village but only finds trouble when he ends up in a love triangle and finds old scores have ...

7.5
Chûshingura
IMDb: 7.5 1962 207 min
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim ...

8.2
Yojimbo
IMDb: 8.2 1961 110 min
A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the ...

6.9
Samurai Saga
IMDb: 6.9 1959 111 min
Edmund Rostand’s play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) ...

6.5
The Big Boss
IMDb: 6.5 1959 101 min
Ryuta and Mineo Komatsu are brothers, both yakuza (gangsters). Mineo, although complicit in crime, even murder, wants out of the gangster life, ...

7.6
A Geisha
IMDb: 7.6 1953 85 min
Fleeing a distressing family situation, Eiko, a very young girl, becomes an apprentice to Miyoharu, a veteran geisha. Both, determined to ...

7.2
The 47 Ronin
IMDb: 7.2 1941 223 min
In the early 18th-century, Lord Takuminokami Asano, feuding with Lord Kira, tries to kill his opponent in the corridors of the Shogun’s ...