Asao Koike Movies

The third film in the Kanto Street Peddlers series. Sugawara still plays the same Kanto street peddler, who this time ventures to Osaka where he...

Well before “Shogun” as warring clans were fighting for power throughout Japan, a Portuguese vessel ran aground off Tanegashima. Lord...

It's a rare occasion when a noted filmmaker like Yamauchi Tetsuya gets to re-visit a previous film, and in this re-make of NINJA GARI, he not only...

A 1967 crime film

Koji Himuro is the wandering gambler. His brother and his girlfriend were both murdered because he was determined to expose a gambling cheat. As a...

Based on the story "Tokyo Station" by Tsunehiko Sagawa.

Japanese crime film.

Famous for his coin tossing when capturing criminals, an Edo detective, Heiji, launches an investigation into the mysterious murder of his friend...

After World War II life in Japan was hard. There was lawlessness, rapine, never enough food or money. One girl, raped by three men, called out the...

Jiro, a young yakuza, and Mami, a diplomat’s daughter, are two young lovers from different worlds. Having met by accident, they soon discover a...

Based on Haruko Ōta's memoir.

On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and husband, is suddenly arrested by the Prefectural Police...

A death occurs during a mountain-climbing expedition.

Sixth part in the Enblem of Man series.

The actions and downfall of a man who lives a life of cold calculation, adapted from a Hideo Shirasaki novel.