Akitake Kōno Movies

The first part of an entertaining historical drama depicting the eventful story of the revenge of an actor with a strange fate, with a variety of char...

From birth Hideyoshi was a restless, defiant spirit--a child of the poorest of the poor. Cast out of his peasant cottage, he would live by his wits, d...

The second part of an entertaining historical drama depicting the eventful story of the revenge of an actor with a strange fate, with a variety of cha...

The final, third part of an entertaining historical drama depicting the eventful story of the revenge of an actor with a strange fate, with a variety...

Early jidaigeki by Tai Kato

Maeda Tsunanori, the lord of Kaga Domain, had two young princes - Katsumaru, the son of his legitimate wife, who died, and Yasunosuke, the son of his...

The stories of several young women who work in a 'precision optical instruments' factory during the second World War. Despite illness, injury, and tre...

This film is strongly anti-war film. The film is based on the collection of writings by Japanese student soldiers who died during World War II. The fi...

Hibari Misora plays a singing guide, who is secretly in love, her fortunes turn for the worse when a gangster’s henchman hears her singing and takes a...

Three bank robbers, Eijima, Nojiri, and Takasugi, flee the police and escape into the mountains. At an inn high in the Japanese Alps, Eijima and Nojir...

1956 Japanese film, originally released in three parts.

Three IJN flyers Mikami (Susumu Fujita),Kawakami (Masayuki Mori) and Murakami (Akitake Kono) are good friends, and they are all renowned for their to...

Saburo and Keiko fall in love with each other but the tide of war separates them.

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

Young lord Saburo Nobuyasu struggles to find comfort in life. His arranged marriage to Tokuhime, daughter of one-time family enemy Oda Nobunaga, provi...

1956 Japanese film, originally released in two parts.

At the beginning of the Meiji era, three brothers of a samurai family each stand up to the times.