Movies: Seizaburō Kawazu

  • 1961
    Yojimbo

    Yojimbo (1961)

    Yojimbo

    8.11961HD

    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 local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabatake, the ronin convinces both silk merchant Tazaemo...

    Yojimbo
  • 1961
    Mothra

    Mothra (1961)

    Mothra

    7.21961HD

    Shipwreck survivors found on the presumably uninhabited Infant Island leads to a scientific expedition that discovers a surviving native population along with the Shobijin, tiny twin fairy priestesses of the island's mythical deity called Mothra. Aft...

    Mothra
  • 1973
    Sex and Fury

    Sex and Fury (1973)

    Sex and Fury

    6.21973HD

    Sex & Fury chronicles Ocho's exploits as she searches for her father's killers, each identified by unique tattoos on their backs (a deer, a boar, and a butterfly). Along the way, she also crosses paths with Shonusuke, a radical set on murdering promi...

    Sex and Fury
  • 1963
    The Insect Woman

    The Insect Woman (1963)

    The Insect Woman

    7.41963HD

    A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repeating its mistakes, as in an infinite circle. Imamura, with this metaphor, introduces the life of Tome, who keeps trying to change her poor life....

    The Insect Woman
  • 1963
    New Tale of Zatoichi

    New Tale of Zatoichi (1963)

    New Tale of Zatoichi

    6.91963HD

    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 followed him home....

    New Tale of Zatoichi
  • 1941
    The 47 Ronin

    The 47 Ronin (1941)

    The 47 Ronin

    71941HD

    In 1701, Lord Takuminokami Asano has a feud with Lord Kira and he tries to kill Kira in the corridors of the Shogun's palace. The Shogun sentences Lord Asano to commit suppuku and deprives the palace and lands from his clan, but does not punish Lord ...

    The 47 Ronin
  • 1953
    A Geisha

    A Geisha (1953)

    A Geisha

    7.51953HD

    Eiko seeks out Miyoharu, a geisha, and asks to be her apprentice. When she is ready to receive clients, both women want the right to refuse certain men....

    A Geisha
  • 1962
    Chûshingura

    Chûshingura (1962)

    Chûshingura

    7.31962HD

    After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor....

    Chûshingura
  • 1964
    Dogora

    Dogora (1964)

    Dogora

    6.91964HD

    A floating amorphous life-form descends from the atmosphere to consume carbon in the form of diamonds....

    Dogora
  • 1956
    Suzaki Paradise: Red Light District

    Suzaki Paradise: Red Light District (1956)

    Suzaki Paradise: Red Light District

    71956HD

    A jobless young couple, Yoshigi and Tsutue, wind up at the outskirts of the Suzaki red-light district in Tokyo. Tsutue talks her way into a job pouring sake for male customers at a small bar run by a sympathetic older woman, while Yoshigi is shunted ...

    Suzaki Paradise: Red Light District
  • 1965
    Tattooed Life

    Tattooed Life (1965)

    Tattooed Life

    71965HD

    After his own gang sets him up to kill a rival mobster, a hit man is forced to flee with his younger brother....

    Tattooed Life
  • 1962
    Gorath

    Gorath (1962)

    Gorath

    6.61962HD

    In 1976, a drifting star named Gorath is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth. Although it is smaller than Earth, its enormous mass is enough to destroy the planet totally. A mission sent to observe Gorath is destroyed after the ship is ...

    Gorath
  • 1959
    Samurai Saga

    Samurai Saga (1959)

    Samurai Saga

    6.71959HD

    Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a lady. But she sees him only as a friend, so he helps another man to woo her by giving him the poetry of h...

    Samurai Saga
  • 1966
    Sazen Tange and The Secret of the Urn

    Sazen Tange and The Secret of the Urn (1966)

    Sazen Tange and The Secret of the Urn

    6.61966HD

    Loyal samurai Samanosuke is attacked, mutilated, and left for dead while carrying out a mission for his clan. He recovers but has lost an eye and an arm. Taking a new identity as Tange Sazen, he searches for a stolen urn which has hidden significance...

    Sazen Tange and The Secret of the Urn
  • 1960
    The Approach of Autumn

    The Approach of Autumn (1960)

    The Approach of Autumn

    6.91960HD

    A single mother from the country raising a 6th grade boy comes to Tokyo, leaves the boy to live with his uncle's family, runs a struggling grocery store, and works a local inn. The boy befriends a girl, the daughter of the innkeeper....

    The Approach of Autumn
  • 1955
    Tales of Ginza

    Tales of Ginza (1955)

    Tales of Ginza

    6.81955HD

    In the thriving Tokyo neighborhood of Ginza, a woman in the process of selling her estranged husband’s art collection attempts to identify the man who painted her own portrait fifteen years prior....

    Tales of Ginza
  • 1961
    The Last War

    The Last War (1961)

    The Last War

    6.21961HD

    A Japanese family is torn apart by the tensions of an avoidable nuclear world war between the superpowers....

    The Last War
  • 1960
    The Last Gunfight

    The Last Gunfight (1960)

    The Last Gunfight

    6.11960HD

    Japanese police detective Saburo Fujioka is suspected of corruption, demoted, and sent to the city of Kojin. Kojin is the scene of fierce fighting between rival gangs. Fujioka is assigned to investigate the death of the wife of gangster Tetsuo Maruya...

    The Last Gunfight
  • 1937
    The Straits of Love and Hate

    The Straits of Love and Hate (1937)

    The Straits of Love and Hate

    7.21937HD

    A story of a servant girl whose life is upturned by her doomed love for a spineless young man....

    The Straits of Love and Hate
  • 1961
    Daredevil in the Castle

    Daredevil in the Castle (1961)

    Daredevil in the Castle

    7.41961HD

    During the raging war between the Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans, the swordsman Mohei (whose family has been completely decimated) is recruited by Toyotomi to overcome the seat of power, Osaka Castle. Mohei's daredevil skills will be put to severe tests...

    Daredevil in the Castle