Movies: Yoshio Inaba

  • 1954
    Seven Samurai

    Seven Samurai (1954)

    Seven Samurai

    8.51954HD

    A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers...

    Seven Samurai
  • 1962
    Harakiri

    Harakiri (1962)

    Harakiri

    8.41962HD

    Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemployed, and with no family, he hopes to find a place to commit seppuku—and a worthy second to deliver the coup de grâce in his suicide ritual. The seni...

    Harakiri
  • 1957
    Throne of Blood

    Throne of Blood (1957)

    Throne of Blood

    7.91957HD

    Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the spirit's prophecy comes true, Washizu's scheming wife, Asaji, presses him to speed up the rest of the s...

    Throne of Blood
  • 1984
    Fireflies in the North

    Fireflies in the North (1984)

    Fireflies in the North

    5.31984HD

    Set in the icy wilderness of Hokkaido during the early days of the Meiji era, where the brutal warden of Kabato Prison terrorizes convicts sentenced to forced labor to build the roads needed to open up the territory....

    Fireflies in the North
  • 1974
    Love Is in the Green Wind

    Love Is in the Green Wind (1974)

    Love Is in the Green Wind

    6.71974HD

    A youthful film depicting the sexual awakening of a boy who has just entered adolescence and his heartbreaking romance during the summer holidays with a young sprightly girl....

    Love Is in the Green Wind
  • 1977
    Island of Hell

    Island of Hell (1977)

    Island of Hell

    71977HD

    A scruffy detective investigates the murders of three sisters on a small Japanese island in 1946....

    Island of Hell
  • 1980
    Port Arthur

    Port Arthur (1980)

    Port Arthur

    7.31980HD

    Depicts the bloody siege of the fortress of Port Arthur, one of the most strongly fortified positions in the world, during the Russo-Japanese War of (1904 - 1905). In the story dominated the character Lt Takeshi Kogyo (Teruhiko Aoi), teachers, and a ...

    Port Arthur
  • 1982
    The Challenge

    The Challenge (1982)

    The Challenge

    61982HD

    Rick, a down-and-out American boxer, is hired to transport a sword to Japan, unaware that the whole thing is a set up in a bitter blood-feud between two brothers, one who follows the traditional path of the samurai and the other a businessman. At the...

    The Challenge
  • 1955
    Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple

    Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple (1955)

    Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple

    7.11955HD

    After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu waits for him, yet he has come not for her but to challenge the leader of the region's finest school of fencing. To prove his valor and skil...

    Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
  • 1974
    The Castle of Sand

    The Castle of Sand (1974)

    The Castle of Sand

    7.41974HD

    Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a Tokyo rail yard....

    The Castle of Sand
  • 1977
    Village of Eight Gravestones

    Village of Eight Gravestones (1977)

    Village of Eight Gravestones

    6.71977HD

    The heir to a family fortune discovers that a curse has been placed on it, put there centuries before by a band of samurai warriors. Adaptation of novel by Seishi Yokomizo...

    Village of Eight Gravestones
  • 1966
    Cash Calls Hell

    Cash Calls Hell (1966)

    Cash Calls Hell

    7.61966HD

    Before leaving prison, Oida uncomfortably enters into an agreement with his cell mate: in exchange for a half-share of 30,000,000 yen, he is to assassinate three strangers given to him on a list. However, upon meeting his first potential victim, Oida...

    Cash Calls Hell
  • 1959
    Fires on the Plain

    Fires on the Plain (1959)

    Fires on the Plain

    7.61959HD

    In the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier afflicted with tuberculosis is abandoned by his company and left to wander the Philippine island of Leyte....

    Fires on the Plain
  • 1965
    Beast Alley

    Beast Alley (1965)

    Beast Alley

    71965HD

    "When human beings venture too far along a trail made by wild beasts, it is said, they quite often discover themselves on a road of no return." Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto....

    Beast Alley
  • 1981
    Willful Murder

    Willful Murder (1981)

    Willful Murder

    7.31981HD

    The president of the Japanese National Railways is found dead during a period in which train service is plagued by numerous layoffs, strikes and shutdowns. The government says that the president was murdered; the police claim it was a suicide. A quiz...

    Willful Murder
  • 1969
    Battle of the Japan Sea

    Battle of the Japan Sea (1969)

    Battle of the Japan Sea

    61969HD

    Japan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the Japanese fleet and army to take Port Arthur fails, and a Russian fleet bears down on the Sea of Japan. Admiral Heihachiro Togo sends his fleet to confront t...

    Battle of the Japan Sea
  • 1983
    The Yoshida School

    The Yoshida School (1983)

    The Yoshida School

    01983HD

    Coinciding with the LDP presidential election of the entire national public, a masterpiece depicting the reverse side of Showa political history released, superimposed cast, a group image of real politicians centered on Shigeru Yoshida and political ...

    The Yoshida School
  • 1975
    The Perennial Weed

    The Perennial Weed (1975)

    The Perennial Weed

    61975HD

    A detective wonders that his sister is a murder suspect....

    The Perennial Weed
  • 1965
    Samurai Assassin

    Samurai Assassin (1965)

    Samurai Assassin

    7.31965HD

    Japan, 1860. The men of the Mito clan, victims of the Ansei purge, anxiously prowl around the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle with the intention of assassinating Naosuke Ii of Hikone, tairō of the Tokugawa shogunate and responsible for their misfortune....

    Samurai Assassin
  • 1978
    Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron

    Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron (1978)

    Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron

    6.31978HD

    Kumokiri Nizaemon, a former samurai warrior, has abandoned his class to become the leader of a gang of thieves. He leads his outlaws in an attempt to rob the castle of his former clan....

    Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron