Akitake Kōno Movies
- 1959
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love8.0511959HD
After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in...
- 1954
Sansho the Bailiff
Sansho the Bailiff8.0981954HD
In medieval Japan, a woman and her children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was exiled years before.
- 1952
The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail
The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail6.71952HD
Yoshitsune Minamoto, disguised with his retinue as monks, must make do with a comical porter as their guide through hostile territory en route to...
- 1957
A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era7.1771957HD
Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He makes the best of his situation by performing...
- 1943
Sanshiro Sugata
Sanshiro Sugata6.51943HD
The story of Sanshiro, a strong stubborn youth, who travels into the city in order to learn Jujutsu. However, upon his arrival he discovers a new...
- 1944
The Most Beautiful
The Most Beautiful5.631944HD
The stories of several young women who work in a 'precision optical instruments' factory during the second World War. Despite illness, injury, and...
- 1946
No Regrets for Our Youth
No Regrets for Our Youth6.81946HD
Over more than a decade, the daughter of a Kyoto Imperial University professor comes of age as she witnesses her father fired for opposing the rise...
- 1964
The Shape of Night
The Shape of Night6.61964HD
Yoshie Nogami, a factory worker by day, works as a bar hostess at night. She begins a passionate affair with one of her regulars, but his changing...
- 1947
Snow Trail
Snow Trail7.11947HD
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...
- 1969
Crimson Bat, the Blind Swordswoman
Crimson Bat, the Blind Swordswoman6.81969HD
A young girl named Oichi is abandoned by her mother and blinded by a lightning strike. When her guardian is killed, she learns to wield a sword from...
- 1943
Military Song of the Morning Mist
Military Song of the Morning Mist01943HD
At the beginning of the Meiji era, three brothers of a samurai family each stand up to the times.
- 1973
Miyamoto Musashi
Miyamoto Musashi7.11973HD
In Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving nothing because fighting on the losing side, & then...
- 1962
Umineko ga tonde
Umineko ga tonde01962HD
- 1964
The Lord's spy
The Lord's spy01964HD
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...
- 1964
Adventures of Zatoichi
Adventures of Zatoichi6.71964HD
Blind swordsman/masseuse Zatoichi befriends a young woman looking for her father, a village leader who has disappeared. As he helps her investigate...
- 1954
The Revenge of Yukinojo, Part 3: Sword of Revenge
The Revenge of Yukinojo, Part 3: Sword of Revenge01954HD
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...
- 1945
Sanshiro Sugata Part Two
Sanshiro Sugata Part Two6.1631945HD
In this government-suggested sequel, Sugata again grows as a judo master, and demonstrates his (and by extension, all Japanese) superiority to the...
- 1955
Taira Clan Saga
Taira Clan Saga7.0581955HD
Special Forces commander Captain Tadamori returns to Kyoto after successfully defeating the uprising of pirates in the western sea of Japan. But...
- 1969
Okatsu the Fugitive
Okatsu the Fugitive6.11969HD
Okatsu the Fugitive is the third film in the "Ohyaku/Okatsu" series. Okatsu; a "tomboy" who is good with a sword. Her father has found her a man to...
- 1958
Souls in the Moonlight II
Souls in the Moonlight II6.61958HD
This is the second installment of the trilogy based on Japan’s greatest novel “The Great Bodhisattva Pass”, following the life and...