Saburo Date

Professional Killers

overview: A shikakenin was an under-the-cover trade that undertook killing in Edo. Hanemon of Otowa, an agency that introduced laborers and maids, was also one of these. Katsugoro Iseya was a timber dealer who had come in as a client. His target was the constructions magistrate Hanno, and the Tatsumiya who sipped on the benefits. Hanemon who had a stong code towards killing, where he would only kill those who do no good to be in the world, accepts this request. Baian Fujieda, a needle doctor would carry out the killing. However, the professional killer Baian fails to bring down Tatsumiya. Hanemon then looks to another shikakenin, the ronin Sanai Nishimura for the role. Although Sanai's ability with the sword is good, he lives poorly in a tenement, and accepts this commission on the condition that it is kept a secret from his wife and child. Here, they close in on Hanno and Tatsumiya again...

original_name: 必殺仕掛人

original_language: ja

Kogarashi Monjiro

overview: Monjiro was born into a poor farm family in Mikazuki Village, Nitta County, Ueshu, and abandoned his hometown when he was 10 years old. He has been traveling aimlessly with a long toothpick in his mouth. Monjiro avoided getting involved in anything, but wherever he went, he ended up getting involved in incidents

character: Senzo

original_name: 木枯し紋次郎

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Saburo Date

biography: Shuntaro Sakura, bekannt als Saburo Date, war ein japanischer Schauspieler. 1945 begann er seine Schauspielkarriere bei der Daiei Film Company. Im darauffolgenden Jahr gab er sein Filmdebüt in „Okagura Kyōdai“ unter der Regie von Hiroshi Inagaki. Gleichzeitig verlieh ihm Inagaki den Künstlernamen Saburo Date. Nachdem das Daiei-Studio 1970 die Filmproduktion einstellte, arbeitete er fortan als freiberuflicher Schauspieler. Zwischen 1947 und 1990 wirkte er in fast 200 Filmen mit.

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Saburo Date

biography: Saburo Date, nascut Shuntaro Sakura (Osaka, Japó, 27 de març de 1924 - Japó, 12 de setembre de 1991), va ser un actor japonès. Va aparèixer en gairebé 200 pel·lícules entre 1947 i 1990.

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iso_3166_1: SK

english_name: Slovak

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iso_3166_1: KR

english_name: Korean

also_known_as:
Saburô Date
Takeshi Date
伊达三郎
伊達岳志
سابورو داته
Shuntaro Sakura
櫻春太郎

title: New Tale of Zatoichi

overview: 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.

character: Anzo

original_title: 新・座頭市物語

title: Akado Suzunosuke vs. the Devil in Crescent Moon Tower

overview: The swordsman again crosses paths with the murderous Devil Mask Gang -- who as the name suggests, all wear hideous devil masks.

original_title: 赤胴鈴之助　新月塔の妖鬼

title: Undercurrent

overview: In Kyoto a young kimono maker with traditional ideas gets involved with a married professor.

original_title: 夜の河

title: Ninja, A Band of Assassins

overview: Warlord Oda Nobunaga seeks to unite a fractured Japan. A young man trained in the arts of ninjitsu is manipulated by a ninja master into attempting to assassinate the warlord before he completes his task.

character: Hattori Hanzo

original_title: 忍びの者

title: Children Hand in Hand

overview: A small-town boy with a learning disability attempts to fit in with his classmates.

original_title: 手をつなぐ子等

title: The Life of a Chivalrous Man in Suruga: Broken Swords

overview: The second film in the "Suruga yukyoden" series, in which Shintaro Katsu plays Jirocho Shimizu. The film features Omasa, Komasa, Ocho, who will become Jirocho's wife, as well as other members of his future family. There is a particularly great swordfight near the end where Katsu and cronies attack the rival villainous yakuza clan to rescue their ailing, elderly boss. The action choreography, cinematography and editing of this sequence is quite brilliant, treading a difficult tightrope act between genuinely goofy antics and exhilirating, bloody violence.

original_title: 駿河遊侠傳 破れ鉄火

title: An Actor's Revenge

overview: In Edo Japan, a kabuki actor seeks revenge against the three men who drove his parents to their deaths years ago.

character: Kawaguchi-ya

original_title: 雪之丞変化

title: Ghost Train

overview: Sixteen people are to stay at a desolate country station. Since a train accident during the war, a ghost train has been coming there at midnight. And it is said that anyone who sees the train will die. ...... A film adaptation of a popular radio drama.

original_title: 幽霊列車

title: Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold

overview: Ichi travels to the village of Itakura to pay his respects at the grave of Kichizo, a man he killed two years ago. When some tax money is stolen while in transit to the governor he is accused and sets out to find the money and clear his name.

original_title: 座頭市千両首

title: Asataro the Crow

overview: Early film directed by Kenji Misumi.

original_title: 浅太郎鴉

title: The Ghost-Cat Cursed Wall

overview: When a nobleman finds a woman to be an obstacle to his growing political influence, he kills her and her cat and has their bodies immured in a wall. Shortly afterwards, a catlike demon begins to haunt the castle.

original_title: 怪猫呪いの壁

title: Teppo Yasu no Shogai

overview: 1962 Japanese movie

original_title: 鉄砲安の生涯

title: New Kurama Tengu: Gojozaka Duel

overview: At the end of the Edo period in Kyoto, the ronin Kurayoshi Norizen rents the second floor of a hardware store and lives a carefree life, running a temple school. However, his true identity is Kurama Tengu, who appears to help a patriot in a difficult situation when he is attacked by the Shinsengumi, and then disappears like smoke.

original_title: 新 鞍馬天狗 五條坂の決闘

title: Ken ni kakeru

original_title: 剣に賭ける

title: The Notorious Man's Return

original_title: 新・悪名

title: A Geisha

overview: Fleeing a distressing family situation, Eiko, a very young girl, becomes an apprentice to Miyoharu, a veteran geisha. Both, determined to preserve their professional integrity, must face the selfishness and ambition of several petty people.

character: Imanishi

original_title: 祇園囃子

title: The Woman in the Rumor

overview: After living a traumatic experience in Tokyo, Yukiko returns to Kyoto, where Hatsuko, her mother, runs a brothel, which upsets Yukiko very much.

character: Nakauchi

original_title: 噂の女

title: The Tale of Zatoichi Continues

overview: Returning to the village where a year before he had killed Hirate, a much-admired opponent, Zatoichi encounters another swordsman and former rival in love.

character: Mirosuke

original_title: 続・座頭市物語

title: Yokai Monsters: Along with Ghosts

overview: In feudal Japan, gangsters chase a young girl who might testify against their boss.  When the gangsters murder the girl's grandfather on sacred ground, the door is opened for the Yokai Monsters to step in.

original_title: 東海道お化け道中

title: Travels of Lord Mito

overview: Lord Mito Mitsukuni, the vice-shogun of the whole country, left the family estate and went on a trip to various provinces with his students Sukesaburo Sasaki and Kakunoshin Atsumi. At an inn in Sunagawa, Mitsukuni exposed and punished an evil judge who had fallen in love with a townsman's wife. However, on the night he stayed at Nihonmatsu Castle, Mitsukuni found out that this incident was a performance organized especially for him…

character: Jûbei Negoro

original_title: 水戸黄門漫遊記

title: Jirocho Fuji 2: The Chivalrous

overview: The exciting story of Jirocho and his yakuza gang that controlled the area of the Tokaido during the latter days of the samurai era.  Awesome fighting from Katsu Shintaro as One-Eyed Ishimatsu highlights this great tale taken from Japanese history!

original_title: 小雨の夜に散った恋

title: Ojo-kichiza

original_title: お嬢吉三

title: Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance

overview: [Period covered: 1582-1594]. As the film opens, the warlod Nobunaga Oda rides to Iga Ayanokuni shrine. He is asked if he thinks he has destroyed all the ninja who opposed him and answers that he suspects that there may be more. A servant brings water and tests it first. The paige dies and we hear gunshots as two ninja flee the scene. His suspicions confirmed, Nobunaga oversees the execution of captured ninja and decides that, in the future, he needs a much crueler method of execution. The daimyo Hideyoshi comes to visit.

original_title: 続・忍びの者

title: The Tragedy of a Young Warrior

overview: Shortly after the Meiji Restoration, young people devoted to the teachings of Saigo Takamori trained day and night at Seiyun Juku in Kagoshima, Kyushu. Shuntaro Amano (Yukio Hashi) entered the school after going through numerous trials and tribulations, and quickly became known for his outstanding talent. Some time after Shuntaro's admission to school, the daughter of director Shiho (Eriko Sanjo) returns from a trip to Tokyo. Shiho is attracted to the intelligent and caring Shuntaro, and soon they fall in love with each other. However, their feelings for each other are futile, and soon Shiho and Shuntaro find themselves in the vortex of time...

original_title: 悲恋の若武者

title: Judge of the Ashuras

original_title: 阿修羅判官

title: Song of Love

overview: In postwar Japan, a new teacher, Miyamoto Yasuko, is discovered by her estranged daughter, Fukuoka Shōko, at a high school. As Yasuko confronts her past, she navigates themes of forgiveness, identity, and motherhood, addressing social taboos of the time.

original_title: 愛の山河

title: Otemoyan

original_title: おてもやん

title: Zatoichi's Pilgrimage

overview: Zatoichi's trek through 88 temples to atone for his violent past is interrupted as he stumbles into a village terrorized by a violent yakuza boss.

character: Kagimatsu

original_title: 座頭市海を渡る

title: The Blossom and the Sword

overview: Tai Kato’s early 20th century set yakuza epic about an ordinary merchant girl (Hiroko Maki) who crosses paths with an assassin (Tetsuya Watari). The encounter sends her to jail as a suspected accomplice. Years later she marries a yakuza boss, whose gang is affiliated with working class people.

title: Ballad of Orin

overview: A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed wherever she goes, even as the modern world imposes change around her.

title: Her Hidden Past

overview: Adaptation of a famous Kyouka Izumi novel. Set in the early 1900's, it tells the story of the impossible love between a young scholar a beautiful geisha.

title: Sleepy Eyes of Death 1: The Chinese Jade

overview: Nemuri Kyoshiro, a youthful and cynical ronin with unparalleled skill, is approached by both sides in a game of corruption, ambition, and double crosses. The leader of the Kaga clan, who thinks he has killed his smuggling partner, fears that the shogunate will discover his illegal activities. He learns of evidence that will prove his guilt. Meanwhile, his partner is not dead, and, assisted by a master of Shorenji boxing, is looking for revenge and for his loot. The Kaga leader sends the beautiful Chisa to enlist Nemuri's aid. The unexpected happens: the hard-bitten Nemuri falls in love. Can he protect her, topple the criminals, and avoid the boxer's deadly skill?

title: Hoodlum Soldier's Flight to Freedom

title: Hoodlum Soldier on the Attack

title: Hoodlum Soldier: Looting and Pillaging

title: Sleepy Eyes of Death 3: Full Circle Killing

overview: A decapitation at the hands of the shogun's monstrous misbegotten son kicks off the action and draws nomadic Nemuri Kyoshiro (Raizô Ichikawa) into more sword-fighting adventures when he's blamed for the beheading. Meanwhile, the head-chopper's mother is busy knocking off the shogun's lawful heirs to secure the shogunate for her son.

title: A Certain Killer

overview: A former soldier, reduced to working at a restaurant post-war, becomes a contract killer for the yakuza gangs he's in contact with.

title: Sword Devil

overview: Hanpei is a gentle young samurai that loves flowers. One day, he witnesses an old man's quick draw of the sword. He is so impressed that he becomes the old man's pupil. Soon, Hanpei's skill of sword comes to attention of his lord. The lord orders him to assassinate a man...

title: Conflagration

overview: Learning of his family's collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the Golden Pavilion, must endure acute psychological distress.

title: Shinsengumi Chronicles

overview: As winds of change sweep Japan, an honest man joins the Shinsengumi out of admiration for its leader, and because he wants to live and die as a samurai. However, as his involvement grows, reality and idealism come into deadly conflict.

title: Kumo no Yuna

title: Samurai Vendetta

overview: Two amiable samurai wind up on opposite sides of the vendetta between Lord Asano's retainers and the family of Lord Kira that led to the famous revenge of the 47 Ronin.

title: Typhoon Club

overview: Offering a caustic immersion into the lives of disaffected junior high students on the cusp of adulthood, the film takes place over the 5-day period before, during, and after a ferocious, seemingly liberating typhoon, which six of the students endure while marooned in their school.

title: Shinobi no Mono 4: Siege

overview: [Period covered: 1614-1615] Tokugawa Ieyasu is now the ruler of all Japan. But one last loose thread must be tied up before his domination is complete -- the destruction of the Toyotomi clan, now beseiged in Osaka castle. Ieyasu's ninja are the only ones who can penetrate the fortress, but unfortunately for Ieyasu, Kirigakure Saizo and the other Toyotomi ninja can just as easily get out. As armies of samurai maneuver for battle, the fate of the nation will be decided by a desperate struggle in the dark!

title: Wolf Guy

overview: Akira Inugami is the only survivor of a clan of ancient werewolves who relies on his supernatural powers to solve mysterious crimes. After a series of bloody killings perpetrated by an unseen force, Inugami uncovers a conspiracy involving a murdered cabaret singer, corrupt politicians, and a plot by the J-CIA to harvest his blood in order to steal his lycanthropic powers.

title: Sōran wataridori

title: Nokosa reta ko tonoko shita haha to

original_title: のこされた子とのこした母と

title: The Casebooks of Zenigata Heiji: The Beautiful Shark

overview: The hairpin murdered a young girl. Detective Zenigata Heiji begin to investigate. Suddenly a murder case turns into a case of smuggling.

title: Oh Wonderful Utamaro!

title: A Bullet Hole Underground

title: Assassins for sale

overview: Nagasaki at the end of the Edo period had the taste of a criminal paradise, where, despite the exotic, dangerous work was always in demand. Here, three wandering samurai who earn their living by killing get to know each other. Soon they learn that government officials will be transporting a large cargo of gold and decide to steal it.

title: New Tengu from Mount Kurama

overview: The film is set in Kyoto at the end of the Tokugawa period, when there is a fierce clash between the supporters of the Emperor, who are fighting for the overthrow of the Shogunate, and the Shinsengumi squad, who are chasing them. Suddenly, a mysterious masked warrior appears, on a white horse he is called Tengu from Mount Kurama and he opposes the Shinsengumi.

title: The Woman and the Pirate

overview: In the early Edo period, among the pirate ships that roamed the seas near Ryukyu and Korea, there was a ship called the Sueyoshi, led by a man known as Misaki Shogoro, who was infamous for his devilish cruelty. Shogoro had a rule: he would kill all the men from the ships he raided, while the women would be distributed among the crew for their pleasure. However, he himself never touched any woman. Aboard the ship was a young girl named Kogane, who had been raised on the ship since she was a child and dressed as a boy. Unbeknownst to others, she had grown to secretly adore Shogoro.

title: The Woman

title: Bonchi

overview: Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overbearing mother and grandmother to give them an heiress for the family business, he stands by helplessly as his wife is thrown out of the house for producing a son. Driven to a life of dissipation - his mistresses also fail to produce daughters - in the end he is just too tired to care.

title: Suruga Yūkyōden: Gambling Hall Robbery

title: Gokudô Petenshi

overview: A group of one-hit wonder scam artists led by the troubled "Kanpai," dealing with impotence, embark on a lively and poignant societal comedy. They overturn the distorted trends and authorities of modern society through peculiar methods such as taking over temples and creating fake emerging religions.

title: Shogun's Holiday

overview: During the reign of Hidetada, the second shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty, the advisor Okubo Hikozaemon (Ganjiro Nakamura) entrusts the young Takechiyo (Hiroshi Kawaguchi) to the fishmonger Isshin Tasuke (Kazuo Hasegawa) to help him understand the world. Tasuke, who does not know that Takechiyo is the shogun's heir, trains him harshly. Tasuke's wife Naka (Michiko Ai) is concerned about his harsh teaching style, but Takechiyo gains strength day by day and adapts to his new life. Soon, Takechiyo begins secretly talking about love with a city girl named Otoyo (Hitomi Nozoe), but...

title: Mito Komon’s Journey to Ezo

overview: Daiei Film Company's three biggest stars shine in this exciting story about Vice-Shogun Mito Komon's journey to the land of the Ainu. As the shogun's uncle, Lord Mito traveled about the nation seeking to make sure that corruption and injustice did not go unpunished. Traveling together with his two faithful bodyguards Kaku and Suke, they board ship for a voyage to the far northern island of Ezo (modern day Hokkaido) where the indigenous people called "Ainu" live. Somewhat like American Indians, the Ainu had their own culture which had not been subjugated by the Matsumae clan, rulers of the vast island. A revolt is brewing within the leadership of the Ainu, which threatens to destroy their peaceful lives. The elder lord and his retinue are the only ones who can stop this reign of terror!

title: Girl with Bamboo Leaves

overview: Yasuda plays Omon, a woman using bamboo leaves as darts/blades to disable and kill her enemies.

title: Rampaging Dog

overview: Abare inu is a 1965 action-comedy film directed by Kazuo Mori. It is the fourth film in the series.

title: Quick-Draw Dog

overview: Quick Drawer Dog (早射ち犬 Hayauchi inu) is a 1967 film directed by Tetsutarō Murano. It is the eighth film in the Inu series.

title: 風来物語 あばれ飛車

title: Thirty-three footprints

overview: Fourth film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka

title: Hell's Assassin

title: An Heir's Place

overview: This film stars Tanaka Kinuyo as the mother of the heir to the Hosho name, a famous lineage of Noh actors. The heir, Hosho Yagoro, is played by Hasegawa Kuzuo who went on to become familiar among Ichikawa Kon fans as Yukinojo in An Actor's Revenge, which was also co-written by Ito, adding to the relatedness of An Heir's Place.

title: Luminous Woman

overview: A hulking man from the country pursues his beloved to the underworld of Tokyo nightclubs, where he finds work as a sideshow wrestler and becomes involved with a faded opera singer.

title: This Way, That Way

overview: An intellectual couple in a staid and tedious marriage are surprised when the wife’s niece, who has run away from home, turns up unexpectedly to stay with them. Their mundane lives are sent into disarray by the emotional and energetic Ako.

title: Life of Matsu the Untamed

overview: A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly.

title: The Bored Samurai

overview: Saotome Mondonosuke is Hatamoto (a high-class warrior who is allowed to see the Shogun in person) who has a crescent-moon-shaped scar on his forehead with flashy clothes and a handsome face, and is proficient in all the military arts and called Bored Hatamoto. Mikijiro Hira acts as such a hero in history. Mondonosuke is secretly ordered to look into the suspicious movement in Nagoya castle by the Ometsuke, and he found out about the misconduct and sole it. This is a period movie about the hero!

title: The Gay Masquerade

overview: The film won 1959 Blue Ribbon Awards for best actor Raizo Ichikawa and for best cinematography Kazuo Miyagawa. The film also won 1959 Kinema Junpo Award for best actor Raizo Ichikawa.

title: Yataro’s Travel Hat

title: The Bodyguard

overview: Karate master and anti-drug vigilante Chiba returns to his home in Japan, where he holds a press conference announcing his intention to wipe out the nation's drug industry. He also offers his services as a bodyguard to anyone who is willing to come forward and provide information about the drug lords' activities. He is soon approached by a mysterious woman claiming to have important information and asking for Chiba's protection. She seems to be legitimate, but is she really what she appears to be?

title: Ghost of Kasane Swamp

overview: One murky night, Soetsu, a blind acupuncturist and money lender, calls on Shinzaemon Fukami, a Hatamoto samurai, to collect some money. But Fukami is too busy having an affair with a maid and curtly tells Soetsu to ask Sawano, his wife, for the money. As they have no money, Sawano interprets her husband's words as telling her to give herself to Soetsu in lieu of payment. However, Fukami catches them in the act and kills them both. Snatching up Soetsu's money bag with 30 ryo in it, he then asks two ruffians, to sink the bodies in a marsh. From what follows, it seems as if the spirits of Soetsu and Sawano are still hovering on earth in anguish and anger. For soon afterwards, Fukami is found dead by his own hand and Osono, Soetsu's younger daughter, suddenly disappears from home.

title: Daimajin

overview: A giant stone statue comes to life to protect the residents of a small town against the depradations of an evil warlord.

title: Sansho the Bailiff

overview: In 11th-century feudal Japan, following the exile of an idealistic governor, his wife and children are separated by slave traders; the children, Zushio and Anju, are sold into brutal servitude under the cruel bailiff Sansho.

title: Chikamatsu Monogatari

overview: When the wife of a 17th-century Kyoto scrollmaker is falsely accused of having an affair with his best employee, the pair flee the city and find themselves truly falling for one another.

title: Song of the Devil

overview: Bakyo is a talented but unsuccessful rakugo artist. The very successful Rokyu wants to take Bakyo under his wings, but Bakyo refuses, claiming that Rokyu's rakugo is compromised by the elements of kabuki. But Bakyo changes his mind and determines to learn (or steal) Rokyu's craft and makes it his own.

title: The Devil's toast

overview: Retired police inspector Kurusu is vacationing at a seaside hotel when one night he hears a child's screaming...but there are no children staying in the hotel. But when an ex-actress who is also a guest there mentions an unsolved murder that occurred on the spot over a year ago, Kurusu decides to investigate.

title: Gate of Hell

overview: Japan, 1159. Moritō, a brave samurai, performs a heroic act by rescuing the lovely Kesa during a violent uprising. Moritō falls in love with her, but becomes distraught when he finds out that she is married.

title: Buddha

overview: An Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six years in search of spiritual enlightenment. Siddartha (Cojoin Hong) turns his back on the old religion when people are starving needlessly and holy rituals include human sacrifices. During his meditations, he is tempted by erotic dancing women, demons, and the evil machinations of his criminal cousin. Devastate to attain the spiritual perfection and become the Buddha. He travels to convert followers by his kindness and wisdom, gaining a multitude of believers when he stops an elephant from crushing a local priest. Buddha of course goes on to become one of the great religious leaders of the world.

title: Daikichi Konomura

overview: A samurai is struggling to make ends meet at the end of the Edo period. He has students and, among other things, teaches them about the evils of the government. A member of the yakuza thugs has fallen in love with the samurai's daughter and conspires to report the father to the authorities in order to snatch the girl. The samurai's daughter has a boyfriend who hides the father and daughter from the thug.

title: Sudden Attack of the Christian Lord

title: The Invisible Man Appears

overview: A scientist successfully creates an invisibility serum, only to be kidnapped by a gang of thugs who wish to use the formula to rob a priceless jewel.

title: Bamboo Doll of Echizen

overview: Kisuke, a young bamboo worker marries Tomoe, a courtesan who was once involved with Kisuke's late father.

title: Odd Obsession

overview: A middle-aged husband of a younger woman finds her youth intimidating to the point that he cannot become aroused. His solution involves the introduction of his daughter's lover to his wife.

title: Shinobi no Mono 3: Resurrection

overview: [Period covered: 1595-1600] We last saw ninja Ishikawa Goemon, as he was about to be boiled alive. But a good ninja is both hard to find, and even harder to kill. With the help of the enigmatic Hattori Hanzo, Goemon lives to skulk another day, and sets his sights on bringing down the warlord who tried to turn him into soup – Toyotomi Hideyoshi. And as always, in the background, the suble hand of Tokugawa Ieyasu is pulling strings as he plots to rule all of Japan!

title: Koga's Messenger

overview: The mysterious Koga Ninja crushes the villains who are trying to take over the inheritance of the Omi castle owner using various means! A sword and witchcraft, a mystery and revenge swirl around the mystery of the hood, in the demon tower, in the underground castle, and at the bottom of the lake!

title: Shinjuku's Number One Drunk-Killer Tetsu

overview: After serving 10 years in prison for murdering a rival boss, Tetsu is appalled to see his yakuza family overgrown and dysfunctional upon his release.

original_title: 新宿酔いどれ番地 人斬り鉄

title: The Ghost of Yotsuya

overview: In one of Japan's most frequently-told ghost stories, a murdered wife returns in an act of vengeance.

title: Island of Horrors

overview: Two women are ferried to a small prison colony on the remote and barren prison island, where they and their fellow inmates are forced to perform perilous slave labor along the island’s treacherous cliffs, overseen by both an unforgiving sun and a crew of abusive male wardens. Meanwhile, the arrival of a newcomer among the island’s administrators, a disgraced policeman who is also the son of Nagasaki’s governor, creates dissension between the officials that, along with an untimely outbreak of bubonic plague on the island, ultimately sets the stage for a daring escape attempt on the part of the prisoners.

title: Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance

overview: Official Shogunate executioner Ogami Itto has been framed for disloyalty to the Shogunate by the Yagyu clan, against whom he now is waging a one-man war, along with his infant son, Daigoro.

original_title: 子連れ狼 子を貸し腕貸しつかまつる

title: Sleepy Eyes of Death 6: Sword of Satan

overview: Sixth film in the series.  A little boy who just wants to be a carpenter is at the center of a plot that might topple -- or save -- a mighty Clan, and while the swords of some angry samurai may not cause Kyoshiro much trouble, the deadly wiles of two women may be more difficult to survive!

title: Zatoichi's Revenge

overview: Itinerant masseur and master swordsman, the blind Zatoichi, is near the village of his teacher, Hikonoichi, so he decides to visit. He learns of Hikonoichi's recent robbery and murder and the imprisonment of his virginal daughter, Osayo, in a brothel. Through friendship with Denroku, a local dice thrower and devoted father, Ichi uncovers an unholy alliance between the governor and the area strongman: among their scams is falsifying tax records to put farmers in debt, then forcing their daughters into prostitution at the boss's brothel. With help from Denroku's daughter, Otsuru, Ichi comforts Osayo until he can provoke showdowns with the villains and their henchmen.

title: The Funeral Racket

overview: The film portrays a satirical view of today's heartless money-oriented society.

title: Shinobi no mono 7: Mist Saizo Strikes Back

overview: [Period covered: 1616] Kirigakure Saizo returns for the final time as he sets out to assassinate Tokugawa Ieyasu in order to avenge the death of Lord Sanada Yukimura. But first he must contend with Ieyasu’s own ninja group led by the powerful Fuma Daijuro, who has a score to settle with the men of Iga that dates back 280 years to the war between the Genji and the Heike at the Battle of Dan-no-Ura. Tremendous fighting and great plot twists highlight this exceptional look into the lives of the mysterious ninja of Japan.

title: Shinobi No Mono 5: Return of Mist Saizo

overview: [Period covered: 1616] On May 8th, 1615 the summer campaign of Osaka has reached the climax. This film takes place immediately following 'Ninja 4: Mist Saizo, Last of The Ninja'. Staying one step ahead of the Shogun’s forces, “Mist” Saizo tries to save the Sanada Clan, and avenge the death of his lord by assassinating the first Tokugawa Shogun. Following the first four films in this remarkable series, more previously unknown Ninja skills are shown to the world for the first time. The action heats up as Saizo single-handedly attacks the Shogun’s Palace!

title: Graveyard of Honor

overview: A self-destructive man becomes a powerful member of the yakuza but quickly loses his self-control. Based on the true story of Rikio Ishikawa.

title: Hidden Story of the Yagyu Clan

overview: It is brother against brother in this tale of love and betrayal within the famed Yagyu clan. In one of their earliest films together, superstars Ichikawa Raizo and Katsu Shintaro are magnificent as the two finest young swordsmen in the clan. As they vie for the hand of a beautiful woman their loyalty comes into question during an attack on their lord.  When one of them masters the secret technique taught to him by Miyamoto Musashi, it leads to bloody violence that can tear the clan apart! Filled with superb swordplay this rare classic is not to be missed!

title: The Third Shadow Warrior

overview: In the mountain regions of Hida, the dreams of a peasant named Kyonosuke, who longed to be a samurai, come true when he becomes one of three doubles, of shadows, of Lord Yasutaka. After months of intense and cruel training, he faces his destiny when the Lord and the other two shadows are killed in battle and he must take on the role of Lord Yasutaka....

title: Satan's Sword

overview: The Dai-bosatsu toge trilogy is based on Kaizan Nakazato's unfinished long series of novels (41 books, written from 1913 to 1941). Set in the last period of the Tokugawa Shogunate, Daibosatsu Toge tells the story of Ryunosuke Tsukue, a nihilistic swordmaster who doesn't hesitate to kill anyone, bad or good.

title: Destiny's Son

overview: In Edo-period Japan, Shingo is born the son of an assassin who was executed for murdering her lord’s concubine. Decades later, his adoptive family is massacred for keeping the secret. Armed with an unbeatable swordfighting technique, Shingo embarks on the path of the masterless samurai in search of vengeance and a path beyond his own ignominious origins.

title: Zatoichi and the Chess Expert

overview: Zatoichi makes friends with a dangerous chess player, while fending off angry yakuza and bloodthirsty relatives out for revenge, and trying to save a sick child. Meanwhile, his luck with dice is turning.

title: Young Boss: Prison Release

overview: The further adventures of Takeshi Nanjo, the Young Boss.

title: Lowly Ronin

overview: Reprising his role from the popular TV series "Koya no Suronin" (The Lowly Ronin),  Mifune Toshiro stars in this full-length, stand-alone made for TV movie. The wandering  ronin is reminiscent of his most famous role as the samurai without a name in  Kurosawa's "Yojimbo" and "Sanjuro". He travels about Japan, and while he may seek  happiness, violence and tragedy always cross his path. This time, he reluctantly  agrees when a girl hires him to kill a local offical who has unfairly taxed her villagers.  But he soon discoves that not all is at it appears when he finds a direct link to his past.

title: Secret Assignment

overview: In the fourth film of series, Secret Assignment, Raizo again plays the Jiro Shiina. This time he's out to discover who is spying for the British in the Foreign Ministry, under the code name “Cat's Eye”.

title: Assignment Cloud

overview: A sequel to the popular "The School of Spies", this film continues the adventures of one of the graduates who is assigned to crack a powerful spy ring working out of Kobe. Various people are suspected but, finally, it seems that an Army captain and his geisha friend might lead them to the ring.

original_title: 陸軍中野学校　雲一号指令

title: The Trail of Blood

overview: Can a sinful man change and find peace? It's unlikely in gang-plagued Japan. Jokichi of Mikogami, a drifter (and hired sword), goes straight after protecting a woman in distress: they marry, have a son, and Jokichi pursues his father's craft. After three years, the gangs he embarrassed when he saved his wife find the family and leave Jokichi in grief, vowing revenge. To parry his terrible swift sword, rival gangs join forces, hiring a prostitute to pose as a woman needing help and breaking the code of honor to double cross the drifter. He finds unlikely allies: a thief who aids him for fun and a one-eyed swordsman who may be Jokichi's equal in skill and honor.

original_title: 無宿人御子神の丈吉 牙は引き裂いた

title: Bloody Shuriken

overview: Ronin samurai Ibuki-san enters a town and sells his skills to the warring families. He falls in love with the beautiful horse stable owner but like all heroes, cannot stay.

title: Nichiren and the Great Mongol Invasion

overview: During the 1200's, legendary Buddhist monk Nichiren returns from his studies to lead Japan out of moral crisis and prepare to fight Mongol invaders by creating a new form of Buddhism. He runs afoul of the existing Buddhist sects and their government supporters and is persecuted. Can Nichiren persevere before the Mongol fleet reaches Japanese shores?

title: The Saga of Tanegashima

overview: Well before “Shogun” as warring clans were fighting for power throughout Japan, a Portuguese vessel ran aground off Tanegashima. Lord Tokitaka helped Captain Pinto repair his ship. The grateful captain offered the lord a gift--a matchlock musket—the first firearm ever seen in Japan. But like a great stone hurled into placid waters, this simple gift will start a revolution. Tokitaka tasks Kinbei, his greatest swordsmith, to copy this musket and build guns for Japan. While Kinbei struggles to forge Japan’s first musket, a great love blooms between Captain Pinto and Kinbei’s daughter Wakasa. But for Kinbei, to let Wakasa marry Pinto and go to Portugal is unthinkable. And as Kinbei creates Japan’s first matchlock factory, Lord Oda Nobunaga will seize upon firearms as the key to sweep all other clans before him, tearing a blood-soaked path of destruction through Japan.

title: Fight, Zatoichi, Fight

overview: Blind swordsman/masseuse Zatoichi befriends a young woman returning home with her baby. When gangsters mistake her for Zatoichi and kill her, Zatoichi determines to escort the baby to its father. He gains the reluctant help of a young pick pocket and together they travel to find the baby's father. But they do not reckon on the father's reaction to their arrival, nor on their own growing feelings for the child.

title: The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka

overview: The disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with general anaesthetic, and the women in his life who are both so determined to win his love that they volunteer as subjects for his experiments

title: The Temple of Wild Geese

overview: Satoko is a mistress by trade or fate: when her master, the silkscreen artist of the Kohoan Temple in Kyoto, dies, she is given to the temple's lascivious head priest Kikuchi. She is drawn to a melancholy young acolyte, Jinen, who has observed the profligacy of his cruel master and Satoko's utter dependence on the man. Jinen is both fascinated and disturbed by Satoko's interest in him; he is similarly caught between loathing of Kikuchi and of the dark circumstances of his birth and his own moral weakness. The story unfolds in a dreamlike manner—a flashback inspired by a now-infamous image on a silkscreen in the souvenir shop at the so-called Temple of the Wild Geese.

title: Scars of Honor

overview: Japan, 1643, as the Kato clan of Aizu falls from power two brave samurai will settle a dispute in the time-honored tradition of their clan, by drawing their blades in a duel to the death.

title: Lone Wolf Isazo

overview: Isazo is a traveling gambler and living legend in the world of yakuza, known for his swordsmanship and bravery, his impeccable manners, and his brilliant talent in gambling. One late fall at an inn in Kiso Fukushima, Isazo befriends a young boy whose mother turns out to be his old love Yoshino, with whom he was not unable to consummate a marriage due to the class differences between them.

title: Shinobi no mono 8: The Three Enemies

overview: [Period Covered: 1570-1573]  Towards the end of the Tenmon Era, Shogun Ashikaga`s powers were weakening by the day and many were there who planned to overthrow him. It was the beginning of the Sengoku (Warring States) period. Three men attack a gunpowder maker in a farmhouse, the first chopping off his arm with his sickle-&-chain weapon, the second blinding him with sword, the third giving the killing blow. His son Kojiro Kosume escapes the attackers as everything he has known up to then explodes into conflagration. He grows up & enters the start of the Tokugawa Era, intent on avenging his father.

title: Seven Miles to Nakayama

overview: When a corrupt magistrate rapes Oshima, Masa (Raizō Ichikawa) avenges her by killing the officer, becoming thereby a fugitive, haunted and grief-stricken by the fact that Oshima committed suicide.  Going underground in the gambling world, perpetually hiding from the law, Masa eventually meets a young woman named Onaka, who looks exactly like Oshima.  Tales having two look-alike heroines are a commonplace in Japanese period films, a plot affectation inherited from the kabuki theater.  Based on a novel by Shin Hasegawa, Nakayama shichiri was already twice filmed in 1930, one version  directed by Namio Ochiai, and from which less than 40 minutes survive, the other directed by Kyotaro Namiki. Both are silent films, preserved by the Makino film institute.

title: Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters

overview: A greedy developer, in league with a corrupt Shrine Magistrate, brutally tries to drive people out of a tenement building and destroy the shrine in back.  But he makes the fatal mistake of hosting a 100 Ghost Stories ceremony without the closing cleansing ritual, opening the door for the Yokai Monsters to punish the wicked.

title: Sleepy Eyes of Death 5: Sword of Fire

overview: Fifth film in the series.  When Kyoshiro, in a moment of weakness, saves the life of a woman being attacked on the road, he quickly finds himself entangled in a conspiracy involving a corrupt chamberlain, a wily merchant, the survivors of a pirate gang, and a missing treasure trove.

title: Sleepy Eyes of Death 4: Sword of Seduction

overview: A fugitive christian "saint" (female, of course!) and a sadistic drug-addled princess both have their eye on Kyoshiro. The fact that a bunch of ruthless smugglers also want him dead is the least of his problems!

title: Gonpachi

title: Gambler and the Princess

title: The Lord Pretends

title: Gambling Code and Feuds

overview: It is the first Toei yakuza film directed by Akinori Matsuo, who was active in Nikkatsu action movies. It is a local yakuza movie made following Okinawa Yakuza War (1976) and Hokuriku Proxy War (1977). The film depicts the war between a storied yakuza killer (Hiroki Matsukata) and the largest organized crime group in the Kansai region, which plans to advance into the Kanto region.

title: The Blind Menace

overview: This is the story of a blind masseur who tricks people, steals, and kills; he is the anti-Zatoichi.

title: The Fencing Master

overview: The Fencing Master tells the story of a man trying to survive as the only world he knows is becoming increasingly irrelevant. Danpei Ichikawa lives for swordfighting – he was once a renowned kabuki swordfight choreographer, and as the Chairman of the New National Theatre Company, he wants nothing more than to choreograph the swordfights for the modern plays put on by the company.

title: The Angry Sword

overview: Story about a gambler who gets involved in a struggle between companies.

title: Sworn Brothers

overview: Ichikawa Raizo’s last film. He plays a Yakuza enforcer who kills a man on his boss's orders. He’s then sent to a provincial town to lie low, only to be caught in another war orchestrated by his original boss who has set him up.

title: The Virgin Witness

overview: An uncle decides to put his delinquent orphaned niece into a temple in Kyoto known for its austere novitiate. Initially resistant to all forms of discipline, she ends up falling in love with the nun who is in charge of her.

title: Maiko and the Assassin

overview: 19th century Japan, at the end of the Edo period. A samurai falls in love with a young woman while taking up arms to overthrow the local shogunate.

title: Sleepy Eyes of Death 9: Trail of Traps

overview: The Son of the Black Mass returns in this ninth installment in Daiei's longstanding Nemuri Kyoshiro series. This time Raizo Ichikawa as Nemuri is called to see that a gold statuette of the Virgin Mary gets safe passage to Kyoto from the prying hands of a sect of murderous Christian ronin that call themselves the Black Finger Group.

original_title: 眠狂四郎無頼控 魔性の肌

title: Mission: Iron Castle

overview: The Shinobi-no-Mono series was so successful that Daiei Studios dipped into the well one more time, making the best 60′s B&W ninja movie ever seen in the otherwise color-dominated year of 1970. Issei Mori directs Hiroki Matsukata as the reluctant leader of a small band of spies charged with kidnapping a noblewoman from a heavily ninja-proofed castle. The finality of the air slowly began to fill like smoke, and in all that had become dark the loyalty of the Ninja who dared to go shone like light as they entered a world shrouded in mystery. Things do not go as planned in what is possibly the darkest and most fatalistic of the already noir-ish 60′s fare. Both the decade and it’s distinctive style of shinobi cinema went out on a high note with Mission Iron Castle.

title: Sleepy Eyes of Death 11: In the Spider's Lair

overview: The titular "tarantula" is a murderous woman who, along with the brother who is in love with her, kill without warrant because they are wealthy & above the law. Kyoshiro the homeless masterless wandering samurai has nothing to lose, & no scruples anyway, so can reproach even the powerful with ease. He is thus, for all that he has broad streaks of villainy all his own, a champion of the people by default.

title: A Lustful Man

overview: Fascinated with women from an early age, Yonosuke had his first sexual encounter at the age of seven. From that day on, he recklessly and forwardly pursues women, feeding his fascination and experience. As Yonosuke's salacious behavior brings much cause for shame to the family, his father eventually breaks relations with him. Expelled from the family, 19-year-old Yonosuke embarks on a pilgrimage of lust, traveling far and wide to acquaint himself with women of all walks.

title: Sazen Tange: The Monkey Pot

overview: A Japanese drama featuring the one-eyed, one-armed swordsman

title: Blood End

overview: Sentaro is been severely beaten for his defiance of the government and the high taxes during a time of famine. He is befriended by Kada Gentaro, a leader in the Mito Tengu group, which plans to overthrow the shogunate.

title: Vagabonds from Badgerville

overview: A musical about the escapades of some tanuki passing themselves off as humans in human society.

title: Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion

overview: After being cruelly set up and deceived by Sugimi, a detective in cahoots with the mob with whom she was whole-heartedly in love, Matsushima’s desire for revenge knows no bounds.

title: Young Boss

overview: After a yakuza boss is assassinated by a rival, his naval officer son returns home to take over the gang.

title: Lefty Fencer

overview: As a child, Okin the one-armed one-eyed swordswoman was disfigured by Lord Daizen-dayu, who was after her family's most treasured possession, the famed Drenched Swallow sword. As an adult, she has become a skilled swordswoman and lives a carefree life with her adopted family. One day, Okin saves a girl from a group of yakuza, and in doing so, gets involved in a grand conspiracy involving religious leaders, government officials, the yakuza and Lord Daizen-dayu, the man who killed her father and mutilated her body...

title: Zatoichi the Outlaw

overview: When a local gambling house kidnaps some peasants because they failed to pay their debts, a rival gambling house pays their debts and sets them free.

title: Sleepy Eyes of Death 13: The Full Moon Swordsman

overview: Inspector General Kanjuro Sano conspires with the future shogun twin brother. They replace Ieyoshi Tokugawa with his twin, but it becomes a problem when suspicion arises and Nemuri Kyoshiro gets involved.

title: Ishimatsu - The One-Eyed Swordsman

overview: Ishimatsu of Mori, from his early days leading up to his joining with Shimizu Jirocho, Boss of the Tokaido where he made his mark in history through his tragic end this is the story of a beloved and loyal henchman.

title: A Killer's Key

overview: A lone wolf assassin, masquerading as a traditional dance instructor named Nitta, is called in to avert a potential financial scandal that threatens to engulf a powerful yakuza group with ties to influential figures in the political establishment.

title: Sleepy Eyes of Death 14: Fylfot Swordplay

overview: Getting an opportunity to meet with another half-Caucasian swordsman, Kyoshiro finds himself involved in a series of dangerous encounters.

title: Kogarashi Monjiro 2: Secret of Monjiro's Birth

overview: Monjiro, reunited with his long lost sister, is pursued by a yakuza gang because he killed their boss. He also meets a fellow gambler who idolizes Monjiro. The gambler and Monjiro's sister are pulled into a conspiracy to get to Monjiro, but do things go as planned?

original_title: 木枯し紋次郎　関わりござんせん

title: The Betrayal

overview: A naively honorable samurai comes to the bitter realization that his devotion to moral samurai principles makes him an oddity among his peers, and a very vulnerable oddity in consequence. He takes the blame for the misdeeds of others, with the understanding that he will be exiled for one year and restored to the clan's good graces after the political situation dies down. As betrayal begins to heap upon betrayal, he realizes he'll have to live out his life as a ronin, if not hunted down and killed.

title: Advance Patrol

overview: In 1905, Japan was seriously threatened in the Russo-Japanese War. Japan determined a decisive attack on Russia to end the war. A reconnaissance troop was organized to penetrate into the supreme headquarter of Russia in Tieling Mountain of China to find out the enemy's situation...

original_title: 日露戦争勝利の秘史　敵中横断三百里

title: Kojiro's Turning Swallow Cut

overview: The story of Sasaki Kojiro, a young swordsman, and his quest to train under master Seigen and develop his own style.

title: Yokosuka Navy Prison

overview: When a rebellious roughneck enlists in the Navy and goes on a rampage against his superiors, he is sent to the Yokosuka Naval Prison.

title: Samaritan Zatoichi

overview: Zatoichi is forced to kill a young man who owes a debt to a yakuza boss. Moments later, his sister Osode arrives with the money she earned (prostituting herself) to pay his debts. The bosses true motives are revealed and he attempts to steal Osode even though the debt is paid. Zatoichi realizes his grievous error and protects the girl from the gang. Osode and Zatoichi are caught in a dilemma as she must rely on her brother's killer for protection and Zatoichi wrestles with the injustice he has caused.

title: An Osaka Story

overview: A poor peasant, after years of scraping, becomes a rich and powerful Osaka merchant. Mizoguchi Kenji's final project; he died before completing it and directing duties turned over to Yoshimura Kozaburo.

title: Ugetsu

overview: In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearby village, in defiance of a local sage's warning against seeking to profit from warfare. Genjuro's pursuit of both riches and the mysterious Lady Wakasa, as well as Tobei's desire to become a samurai, run the risk of destroying both themselves and their wives, Miyagi and Ohama.

title: Hoodlum Priest And The Gold Mint

overview: It’s cross and double-cross in these further adventures of Ryuzen, the wayward priest played by Katsu Shintaro as he tries to help a woman who may be the heir to a fortune get what is rightfully hers. Matsuo Kayo, who first rose to international stardom as ‘the supreme ninja’ in “Shogun Assassin” gives an outstanding performance in this clever and exciting caper tale set in the samurai era. Ryuzen agrees to help her, but is he just in it for himself, and is she really who she claims to be? When they come up against Boss Tobei it’s a virtual free-for-all as everyone struggles to walk away with a fortune in gold!

title: Bad Reputation: The Notorious Men and Their Specialty

title: Bad Reputation: The Notorious Harbor

title: Zatoichi's Vengeance

overview: Zatoichi comes upon a dying man who asks him to give a bag of money to "Taichi". Zatoichi has no idea who this is but when he comes upon a small town harassed by gangsters, he finds that "Taichi" was the man's young son. Along his travels he also met a blind monk who makes Zatoichi question his murderous lifestyle. In trying to help the town, Zatoichi kills some gangsters and becomes a hero to the boy. He must make a choice of whether to use non-violence and set a good example, or violence and set the boy on the wrong path in life.

title: Lost Chapter of Snow: Passion

overview: Iori, taken from an orphanage by a family for domestic work, runs away and is adopted and raised by two young men. Ten years later, she crosses paths with her former step-sister, who is soon poisoned to death, Iori being the prime suspect.

title: The Great White Tiger Platoon

overview: The Great White Tiger Platoon was part of the Aizu clan's last ditch efforts to stop the advance of Imperial troops after the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate. Meant to be a reserve unit as it was made of the young, 16-17 year old sons of Aizu samurai. Their story is one of the great tragedies of the Boshin War (1868-1869) as they were called into action. Getting cut off from the main body of their platoon, a group of 20 from the 2nd squad retreated to Iimori Hill, where they looked down upon fires surrounding Aizu Castle and thinking that the castle has fallen and all is lost, they choose to die as samurai by committing seppuku. A superb rendition of this true story that shows the true honor of the samurai.

title: Naked Ambition

overview: Wicked woman Ogin is a concubine of a powerful feudal lord Tayu. At first Ogin gains power by poisoning lawful wife of Tayu. To gain more power Ogin let her lover Isogai Iori, kill whoever interrupts her. Film it is based on Jun'ichirō Tanizaki's novel "Kyofu Jidai".

title: Takeshi: Childhood Days

overview: A story of childhood life during wartime Japan. Takeshi, the intelligent son of a fisherman, is the schoolyard bully. When his cousin comes to stay with his family to avoid bombing raids, Takeshi at first treats him well, then begins bullying him too. Takeshi eventually loses his position of leadership.

title: Taira Clan Saga

overview: Japan, 1137. The Taira family, a samurai clan, becomes involved in the disputes between Emperor Toba and the monks of Mount Hiei.

title: A Samurai Never Tells a Lie

overview: The shogun's vassal Harima Aoyama and a chamber maid are in love with each other, but they cannot be together due to a difference of their status. Soon, an offer of marriage is brought to Harima. Trying to test his love, Okiku breaks one of the plates of the family treasure of the Aoyama family, but Harima doesn't notice. However, someone surrounding her witnesses the moment Okiku breaks the plate on purpose.

title: Fighting Letter for 29 People

title: Hanatarō Jumon

title: Princess Tsuki

title: The Gambling Samurai

title: The 7th Secret Agent to Edo

title: The Magistrate

title: The Dancer and Two Warriors

title: The Young Lord

title: Fighting Fire Fighter

title: Flowery Hood 2

title: Yûrei koban

title: Peony on the Skin

title: The Actress and the Three Rascals

title: Flowers of Chivalry

overview: Kayama Ichinoshin (Raizo Ichikawa) has been traveling for ten years in search of revenge for his father. One day, Ichinoshin reunites with his younger brother Shinjiro (Yukio Hashi), who has completely changed. Shinjiro abandoned the quiet samurai life and began to lead a Yakuza lifestyle. The older brother is angry at the younger one for his depravity, and the younger one laughs at him for being tied to old-fashioned traditions. As a result, they quarrel. Ichinoshin hears that the person he has to take revenge on has become a Yakuza, and in order to get a hint, he takes care of the Otsu family, to which Shinjiro owes, but later discovers that the boss of Otsu Kanemon is the one he is looking for.

title: The Woman Gambler's Iron Rule

overview: The woman gambler Ginko risks her life for her brother-in-law.

title: Secret of Naruto

overview: From the pen of Yoshikawa Eiji comes this exciting story. The Naruto Strait separates Tokushima from the islands of Awaji and Honshu. On Tokushima the mad lord dreams of conquest and forges a bloody revolt against the Tokugawa shogunate. A mysterious swordsman named Noriyuki Gennojo has crossed Naruto’s waters to uncover the Awa clan’s secrets. He puts his life on the line after finding a testament of Awa’s secrets, written in blood by a dying man. Joining Noriyuki are a female ninja who loves him, and the beautiful daughter of an enemy who’s sworn to kill him. Awa’s defenders willl stop at nothing to prevent the blood-soaked letter from reaching the shogun.

title: Devil's Temple

overview: An abandoned temple in the mountains outside of the old capital city of Kyoto is the scene of a fated meeting between a traveling priest, two women, and a vicious killer. Bloody violence erupts whenever strangers approach the temple. Can the traveling priest bring his belief in the Buddha and rid the three temple residents of the devils that hold their souls?

title: The Bride from Hades

overview: On the night of the summer Obon festival, Hagiwara Shinzaburo meets a beautiful courtesan named Otsuyu. Not knowing she's a ghost, he becomes infatuated by her.

title: The Thieves' Who's Who

overview: In the book of the world's greatest rogues, the number one man can only be one person.

title: Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi

overview: Nezumi Kozō is the nickname of Nakamura Jirokichi, a Japanese thief and folk hero who lived in Edo during the Edo period. His exploits have been commemorated in kabuki theatre, folk songs, jidaigeki, and modern pop culture.

title: Story of a Beloved Wife

overview: Story of a Beloved Wife is an autobiographical work based on Shindo's first marriage. Jūkichi Uno stars as a struggling screenwriter, and Nobuko Otowa stars as the wife who supports him through his early struggles.

title: Dianas of the Campus

title: The Bullet Train

overview: A Japanese bullet train is threatened with a bomb that will explode automatically if the train slows below 80 km/h, unless a ransom is paid. Police race to find the bombers so the train crew can learn how to defuse the bomb.

title: Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades

overview: Ogami Itto volunteers to be tortured by Yakuza in order to save a prostitute and is hired by their leader to kill an evil chamberlain.

original_title: 子連れ狼 死に風に向う乳母車

title: The Man Who Laughs Last

overview: The East Asian Acrobatic circus enjoys popularity after welcoming the Asuka brothers, two prestigious trapeze acrobats. One day, one of the brothers gets injured and a substitute needs to be found. Rumors start to float around concerning the circus clown and his grandiose acrobat career which ended tragically. Will he be able to reconcile with his tumultuous past and get the show running?

title: The Motherland Far Far Away

title: Goblin Courier

title: Night Butterflies

overview: A traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival.

title: Megitsune Buro

title: Showdown at Night's End

overview: Set against the backdrop of a port city, this action-packed story follows a man who makes a living selling daily necessities to foreign ships entering the harbor. When he believes he’s been set up to raise funds, he finds himself caught in a trap and forced to become an accomplice to smuggling.

title: Oniisan to oneesan

overview: A 1961 film directed by Yoshiyuki Kuroda.

title: Marathon Samurai

overview: The TV drama of Ima Harube was adapted by Yagi Ryuichiro ("Komuso Henge"), directed by Mori Issei ("I Am Fujikichirou"), and cinematographed by Honda Shozo ("The Return of the Ghost"). The main cast includes Katsu Shintaro ("Flower of the Wandering Bird"), Saga Michiko and Mita Tokiko ("Matashirou's Fighting Journey")

title: 晴小袖

title: The Curse of the Ghost

overview: About 1786 the doings of a demented lord results in many masterless samurai, including Iyemon (Kei Sato) who is used to luxury and cannot adjust to the hand-to-mouth conditions & piecework of umbrella making. Having hired ruffians to make him look like a superior swordsman, he arranges for himself the opportunity of a profitable marriage. He hires the half-blind masseur Takuetsu (Sawamura Sounosuke) to seduce or rape his wife (Kyoko Mikage), so that she can be divorced or killed for adultery. But the masseur takes pity & informs Oiwa of her husband's horrid plot. Assisted by the merchant's daughter he intends to marry, Iyemon disfigures his wife attempting to poison her so he can marry higher. There's a lovingly gruesome sequence as she combs blad patches into her hair, kneeling deformed at her mirror, weeping with bitterness. She eventually cuts her own throat, swearing revenge.

title: Mangorō Tengu

title: Zenigata Heiji torimono hikae: madara hebi

original_title: 銭形平次捕物控 まだら蛇

title: Three Young Samurai

overview: During Japan's Warring States period three young Tokugawa vassals head their separate ways after Takeda Shingen's forces overran their castle. When they next meet they have all joined opposing sides.

title: お嬢さん三度笠

title: Maiko monogatari

title: The Two Musashis

overview: During the reign of Shogun Hidetada, both Hirate Musashi and Okamoto Musashi strive to become the finest swordsman in the land by defeating the Yagyu clan's top instructors and then taking on Sasaki Kojiro!

title: 木曽ぶし三度笠

title: Shikaku yashiki

title: Shinobi No Mono 6: The Last Iga Spy

overview: [Period covered: 1637-1651] This is one of the most complicated plots of any of the Shinobi no Mono films! This film tells the story of Saizo’s son, Kirigakure Saisuke, who after seeing his father die at the Battle Of Shimabara, grows up to be an expert ninja. Before he dies, “Mist” Saizo tells his children Saisuke, and Yuri that they are not really brother and sister. She, in fact, is the daughter of the late lord Sanada Yukimura, and must be saved from the shogun’s forces.  In the chess match of spy versus spy, can Saisuke defeat the shogun’s chief strategist, Matsudaira Izunokami at his own game? Showing many exciting ninja tactics, it is not to be missed.

title: Zenigata Heiji Case Files: Enma's Nightly Ledger

original_title: 銭形平次捕物控　夜のえんま帳

title: The Demon of Mount Oe

overview: A band of warriors journeys to Mount Oe to rescue abducted women from a demon, overcoming supernatural threats like a giant spider and a diabolical witch along the way.

title: What Price Love?

overview: Set in the middle of the Edo period (1603-1867), this tragic love story takes its cue from a celebrated historical case tried by magistrate Tadasuke Ooka, whose shrewd legal decisions became the stuff of legend. Okuma Shirokoya, the daughter of a lumber merchant in Edo (today’s Tokyo), embarked on an affair and was executed after conspiring with her maid to murder her husband. (Source: https://festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/proiezione/shirokoya-komako/)

title: A Tale of Dung and Urine

overview: In a provincial Japanese town, an entrepreneurial sanitation collector is drawn into the world of local politics, only to discover that the prosperity he helped create will benefit everyone but himself.

title: Maiko sanjūshi

title: Ninjō misui

title: Duel at Moonrise

overview: A yakuza bodyguard is persuaded by Ōhara Yūgaku to take the farmers’ side.

title: Kunisada Chūji

title: Demon Sword

overview: A young swordsman takes on the mysterious, deadly “Demon Sword” wielded by a nihilistic master swordsman who trusts neither human compassion nor a woman’s heart… What is the fate of the undefeated Demon Sword?

title: City of Violence

overview: Set against the backdrop of Hiroshima, a city plagued by gun violence, a passionate newspaper reporter and the citizens band together to courageously confront the tyranny of two major organized crime syndicates.

title: Tebukuro o nugasu otoko

title: New Tale of Zatoichi

original_title: 赤胴鈴之助　新月塔の妖鬼

title: Undercurrent

title: Ninja, A Band of Assassins

title: Children Hand in Hand

title: An Actor's Revenge

title: Ghost Train

title: Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold

title: Asataro the Crow

title: The Ghost-Cat Cursed Wall

title: Teppo Yasu no Shogai

title: New Kurama Tengu: Gojozaka Duel

original_title: 新 鞍馬天狗 五條坂の決闘

title: Ken ni kakeru

title: The Notorious Man's Return

title: A Geisha

title: The Woman in the Rumor

title: The Tale of Zatoichi Continues

title: Yokai Monsters: Along with Ghosts

title: Travels of Lord Mito

title: Jirocho Fuji 2: The Chivalrous

title: Ojo-kichiza

title: Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance

title: The Tragedy of a Young Warrior

title: Judge of the Ashuras

title: Song of Love

title: Otemoyan

title: Zatoichi's Pilgrimage

title: The Blossom and the Sword

title: Ballad of Orin

title: Her Hidden Past

title: Hoodlum Soldier's Flight to Freedom

title: Hoodlum Soldier on the Attack

title: Hoodlum Soldier: Looting and Pillaging

title: A Certain Killer

title: Sword Devil

title: Conflagration

title: Shinsengumi Chronicles

title: Kumo no Yuna

title: Samurai Vendetta

title: Typhoon Club

title: Shinobi no Mono 4: Siege

title: Wolf Guy

title: Sōran wataridori

title: Nokosa reta ko tonoko shita haha to

original_title: のこされた子とのこした母と

title: Oh Wonderful Utamaro!

title: A Bullet Hole Underground

title: Assassins for sale

title: New Tengu from Mount Kurama

title: The Woman and the Pirate

title: The Woman

title: Bonchi

title: Suruga Yūkyōden: Gambling Hall Robbery

title: Gokudô Petenshi

title: Shogun's Holiday

title: Mito Komon’s Journey to Ezo

title: Girl with Bamboo Leaves

title: Rampaging Dog

title: Quick-Draw Dog

title: 風来物語 あばれ飛車

title: Thirty-three footprints

title: Hell's Assassin

title: An Heir's Place

title: Luminous Woman

title: This Way, That Way

title: Life of Matsu the Untamed

title: The Bored Samurai

title: The Gay Masquerade

title: Yataro’s Travel Hat

title: The Bodyguard

title: Ghost of Kasane Swamp

title: Daimajin

title: Sansho the Bailiff

title: Chikamatsu Monogatari

title: Song of the Devil

title: The Devil's toast

title: Gate of Hell

title: Buddha

title: Daikichi Konomura

title: Sudden Attack of the Christian Lord

title: The Invisible Man Appears

title: Bamboo Doll of Echizen

title: Odd Obsession

title: Shinobi no Mono 3: Resurrection

title: Koga's Messenger

original_title: 新宿酔いどれ番地 人斬り鉄

title: The Ghost of Yotsuya

title: Island of Horrors

title: Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance

original_title: 子連れ狼 子を貸し腕貸しつかまつる

title: Sleepy Eyes of Death 6: Sword of Satan

title: Zatoichi's Revenge

title: The Funeral Racket

title: Shinobi No Mono 5: Return of Mist Saizo

title: Graveyard of Honor

title: Hidden Story of the Yagyu Clan

title: The Third Shadow Warrior

title: Satan's Sword

title: Destiny's Son

title: Zatoichi and the Chess Expert

title: Young Boss: Prison Release

title: Lowly Ronin

title: Secret Assignment

title: Assignment Cloud

original_title: 陸軍中野学校　雲一号指令

title: The Trail of Blood

original_title: 無宿人御子神の丈吉 牙は引き裂いた

title: Bloody Shuriken

title: Nichiren and the Great Mongol Invasion

title: The Saga of Tanegashima

title: Fight, Zatoichi, Fight

title: The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka

title: The Temple of Wild Geese

title: Scars of Honor

title: Lone Wolf Isazo

title: Shinobi no mono 8: The Three Enemies

title: Seven Miles to Nakayama

title: Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters

title: Sleepy Eyes of Death 5: Sword of Fire

title: Gonpachi

title: Gambler and the Princess

title: The Lord Pretends

title: Gambling Code and Feuds

title: The Blind Menace

title: The Fencing Master

title: The Angry Sword

title: Sworn Brothers

title: The Virgin Witness

title: Maiko and the Assassin

title: Sleepy Eyes of Death 9: Trail of Traps

original_title: 眠狂四郎無頼控 魔性の肌

title: Mission: Iron Castle

title: A Lustful Man

title: Sazen Tange: The Monkey Pot

title: Blood End

title: Vagabonds from Badgerville

title: Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion

title: Young Boss

title: Lefty Fencer

title: Zatoichi the Outlaw

title: Ishimatsu - The One-Eyed Swordsman

title: A Killer's Key

original_title: 木枯し紋次郎　関わりござんせん

title: The Betrayal

title: Advance Patrol

original_title: 日露戦争勝利の秘史　敵中横断三百里

title: Kojiro's Turning Swallow Cut

title: Yokosuka Navy Prison

title: Samaritan Zatoichi

title: An Osaka Story

title: Ugetsu

title: Hoodlum Priest And The Gold Mint

title: Bad Reputation: The Notorious Harbor

title: Zatoichi's Vengeance

title: Lost Chapter of Snow: Passion

title: The Great White Tiger Platoon

title: Naked Ambition

title: Takeshi: Childhood Days

title: Taira Clan Saga

title: A Samurai Never Tells a Lie

title: Fighting Letter for 29 People

title: Hanatarō Jumon

title: Princess Tsuki

title: The Gambling Samurai

title: The 7th Secret Agent to Edo

title: The Magistrate

title: The Dancer and Two Warriors

title: The Young Lord

title: Fighting Fire Fighter

title: Flowery Hood 2

title: Yûrei koban

title: Peony on the Skin

title: The Actress and the Three Rascals

title: Flowers of Chivalry

title: The Woman Gambler's Iron Rule

title: Secret of Naruto

title: Devil's Temple

title: The Bride from Hades

title: The Thieves' Who's Who

title: Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi

title: Story of a Beloved Wife

title: Dianas of the Campus

title: The Bullet Train

title: Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades

original_title: 子連れ狼 死に風に向う乳母車

title: The Man Who Laughs Last

title: The Motherland Far Far Away

title: Goblin Courier

title: Night Butterflies

title: Megitsune Buro

title: Showdown at Night's End

title: Oniisan to oneesan

title: Marathon Samurai

title: 晴小袖

title: The Curse of the Ghost

title: Mangorō Tengu

original_title: 銭形平次捕物控 まだら蛇

title: Three Young Samurai

title: お嬢さん三度笠

title: Maiko monogatari

title: The Two Musashis

title: 木曽ぶし三度笠

title: Shikaku yashiki

title: Shinobi No Mono 6: The Last Iga Spy

original_title: 銭形平次捕物控　夜のえんま帳

title: The Demon of Mount Oe

title: What Price Love?

title: A Tale of Dung and Urine

title: Maiko sanjūshi

title: Ninjō misui

title: Duel at Moonrise

title: Kunisada Chūji

title: Demon Sword

title: City of Violence

title: Tebukuro o nugasu otoko


Luboš Veselý

Maharal – Tajemství talismanu

original_name: Maharal – Tajemství talismanu

original_language: cs

The Prague Mysteries

overview: The Inspector Hynek Budik as been assigned chief of police in the area on the outskirts of Prague, With detectives Martin Novacek an inexperienced rookie and the inspector Havlik will seek to solve difficult cases of murder.

original_name: Zločiny Velké Prahy

Boží mlýny

character: Skácel

original_name: Boží mlýny

Sedm schodů k moci

original_name: Sedm schodů k moci

Nevinné lži

character: Jedlička

original_name: Nevinné lži

The Czech Century

overview: Czech Century brings the key moments of the history of the Czech nation from 1918 to 1989.

character: General Vojtech Luza

original_name: České století

Iveta

overview: Iveta wants to be a famous singer. The journey leads from the children's choir through singing competitions, recording the first hit and record to nationwide fame. Iveta has to convince parents, jurors, producers, spectators. The only one who believes in her from the beginning is Petr Sepéši. Her first love. What is the price of a dream come true? The beginning of Iveta Bartošová's life story.

character: Majer

original_name: Iveta

Jan Hus

overview: Prague at the end of the 14th century: King Wenceslas, his brother Sigismund, the Archbishop of Prague Zbynek and three popes are locked in a power struggle. All lay claim to influence over the Holy See. Jan Hus, a master of Charles University and preacher, feels partly responsible for the fate of the divided church and its faithful, for whom it serves as a role model. He thus attracts the resentment of the powerful. "Jan Hus" is the story of a man who, because of his convictions, faced death in the battle between the opinions and ambitions of ecclesiastical and secular authorities.

character: vikář Kbel

original_name: Jan Hus

Škoda lásky

character: Jaroslav Hladký (Mokré tričko)

original_name: Škoda lásky

character: Pavel (Dobrodružství)

character: Vlastimil Dejmal (Host u tabule)

Národní házená

original_name: Národní házená

Burning Bush

overview: Based on real characters and events, this haunting drama focuses on the personal sacrifice of a Prague history student, Jan Palach, who set himself on fire in protest against the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia in 1969. Dagmar Burešová, a young female lawyer, became part of his legacy by defending Jan's family in a trial against the communist government, a regime which tried to dishonour Palach’s sacrifice, a heroic action for the freedom of Czechoslovakia.

original_name: Hořící keř

Profesor T.

character: Pavel Rabas

original_name: Profesor T.

Marta a Věra

character: Dr. Luskoun

original_name: Marta a Věra

Případy 1. oddělení

character: JUDr. Milan Chyňava

original_name: Případy 1. oddělení

Sever

character: Mjr. Filip Suchý

original_name: Sever

Jitřní záře

character: Písecký

original_name: Jitřní záře

Drazí sousedé

character: Tonda Chalupa

original_name: Drazí sousedé

Život a doba soudce A. K.

character: svědek Ulrich

original_name: Život a doba soudce A. K.

Scene of the Crime Ostrava

original_name: Místo zločinu Ostrava

Vysoká hra

character: Tauber

original_name: Vysoká hra

Kukačky

original_name: Kukačky

The Informant

overview: 1950s. Under the communist regime, a struggling actor joins the KGB as an informant to make ends meet. He quickly finds himself caught up in a dangerous web of deceit and treachery.

original_name: Herec

origin_country: SK CZ

Světla pasáže

character: Igor Kovář

original_name: Světla pasáže

We’re on it, Comrades!

overview: David (Jiří Macháček) has one task: to investigate paranormal cases. But he doesn't feel like it. It's the 1980s, and there are a lot of annoying people who call each other "comrade." He doesn't believe in anything paranormal anyway. He prefers to sit in his office, pretending to work on research into satanic references in Western music, and enjoys listening to LPs that no one else in the country has. The world would be beautiful, but his superior assigns him a new colleague, Vojta (Jan Cina). This overzealous newcomer talks about pushing the boundaries of human knowledge and how science doesn't have answers to all the mysteries of the world yet. This mismatched duo has no choice but to cooperate in investigating bizarre cases that all other security forces in the state can't handle. To make it harder, they are constantly monitored by a pair of StB agents – the tough agent Snížková (Anna Fialová) and the sweetheart Hora (Leoš Noha).

original_name: To se vysvětlí, soudruzi!

origin_country: CZ DE

Dobrodružství kriminalistiky

original_name: Dobrodružství kriminalistiky

origin_country: XC CZ

Polda

character: Václav Borovský

original_name: Polda

Slunečná

character: Košut

original_name: Slunečná

Português

iso_639_1: pt

iso_3166_1: BR

english_name: Portuguese

English

iso_639_1: en

iso_3166_1: US

english_name: English

Український

iso_639_1: uk

iso_3166_1: UA

english_name: Ukrainian

also_known_as:
Luboš P. Veselý
Luboš Pazderka Veselý
Lubos Veselý

title: Leť, ptáku leť!

overview: Even a strict and not very popular teacher can achieve extraordinary popularity with his pupils. When their favourite teacher breaks his leg just before a bicycle trip, he is replaced by his strict colleague. Although his involuntary charges are not enthusiastic at first, they eventually become convinced that it is not good to immediately reject a person just because one does not get along with him at first...

original_title: Leť, ptáku leť!

title: Lady Macbeth z Újezdu

original_title: Lady Macbeth z Újezdu

title: The Velvet Murders

overview: A thriller loosely based on one of the most violent Czech criminal cases of the nineties, popularly known as the Orlík murders. The film delves into the motivation behind the killings, exposing their exceptional cruelty and an absolute absence of moral values. The perpetrators executed four people on their way to achieving material gain. Two of the bodies were found at the bottom of Orlík reservoir, the third perished in a bomb blast, and the forth was shot at home...

original_title: Sametoví vrazi

title: Ordinary Failures

overview: A misfit teenager, an anxious mother, and a recent widow see their day interrupted by a mysterious natural phenomenon. As their world descends into chaos, the three women struggle to find their place in life.

character: Václav

original_title: Běžná selhání

title: Eyewitness

overview: "A documentary anatomy of mass murder for one monitor and 34 talking heads." These are the words the filmmakers use in the credits to describe their project, which thematises the execution of more than 260 Carpathian Germans, Hungarians and Slovaks by Czechoslovak army soldiers near Přerov in June 1945. The “massacre at Přerov” is made present through a minimalist dramatisation of the interrogation footage of direct participants, eyewitnesses, and others. It is as if the characters of ancient theatre were entering the Zoom “stage” and delivering a tragic message of fear, hatred and disinterest across the chasm of time.

title: We Have Never Been Modern

overview: Helena, is about to give birth and face a rosy future in a modern city, as the pregnant wife of an important factory manager. However, all her illusions soon perish, as the dead body of a newborn intersex baby is found in the middle of their factory. Helena needs to find out what happened here for the safety of her own child, but she runs into her own prejudices.

title: Dům na samotě

overview: The search for a perverted serial killer opens the door to a dark past. Where do the clues from the rapist's strange handwriting lead?

title: Maharal – Tajemství talismanu

overview: The thrilling and fantastic story of three Prague children, Alena, David, Ondra, and the charismatic treasure hunter Aaron Cohen, takes us to the most mysterious places of old Prague, to the ruins of an old water castle, and among strange creatures from ancient times... All of this takes place during an exciting and adventurous search for a mysterious treasure, the Golem, and the legendary Philosopher's Stone...

title: Guard No. 47

overview: A WW I veteran still haunted by his time in the trenches settles in a small town to work for the railroad company. His pretty wife attracts the attention of the lonely young gravedigger.

title: Flower Buds

overview: Flower Buds tells the story of the gradual breakdown of a family living in a small town. Each character lives according to his or her own ideals. Agata wants a happy life far from home, fully aware that her only hope is to escape and therefore betray those close to her. Honza believes in the purity and power of love, regardless of the circumstances under which it is born. Kamila looks confidently to the future and does not intend to accept the misery of the present. The only Jarda knows that he will not change the world or himself. Aware of his weakness, he does not even try. In his mind, of course, his addiction to slot machines, which has led to a nearly impossible situation, is as certain as most gamblers' belief of an imminent win. The real and convincing attempt to rescue his family comes when it is too late. It is just a futile gesture, a desperate last ditch effort.

title: Otec neznámý aneb Cesta do hlubin duše výstrojního náčelníka

title: Hives

overview: Thursday morning, Jerusalem. Nira goes to work. Ahmad in London does the same, Ralf in Cologne and a priest in Prague too. Matija, Croat, goes to work as well. Ok, he doesn't, but he acts as if he does. Ahmad is taking his routine red bus journey. Out-of-breath young man comes in and interrupts it. Schoolteacher Nira is also interrupted - her pupil jumps out and performs a love rap song he wrote for her. The priest in Prague doesn't feel like singing today, he is in the mood for (over)sleeping instead. Someone falls asleep, someone else - Ralf - falls in love. All five mentioned above are listening to the top-news about the disappearance of bees. And trying their best, each one of them in his or her own 'hive': Zagreb, Jerusalem, London, Cologne, Prague...

title: An Earthly Paradise for the Eyes

overview: Adolescence is always a difficult time; it is doubly so for Gábina. For one thing, she is growing up in the normalization years of the 1970s, and then she also has to face the reality that her father is a well-known actor disavowed by the regime. Although he abandoned the family years before, his existence casts an ominous shadow over the lives of not only Gábina, but also her older sister and mother, who are trying to find a civilized way through the social mire of the times.

title: Walking Too Fast

overview: The psyche of a ruthless secret agent in Cold War Czechoslovakia begins to unravel when he obsesses over the girlfriend of a suspected subversive he is tracking. This taut political thriller is a bleak and potent rendering of the emotional destruction wreaked by totalitarianism.

title: Laputa

overview: What to do with life on an island threatened with rescue? Johanka is the owner of a café called Laputa, which—like the flying island of the same name from Gulliver's Travels—is her island. Will it be enough to make her feel complete and happy? Johanka explores what to do in the boundless space of adult life, at the beginning of which she finds herself. Her family is not very helpful, and the café guests each come with their own needs and selfishness—their characters are meant to be a reflection of their generation.

title: Antonyho šance

overview: Antony is obsessed with the idea of a happy family life, but his young daughter has to be cared for by the parents of his wife, who died in a car accident. Unfortunately, Martha, whom Antony has somewhat recklessly married, has a fundamentally different vision of her future than he does.

title: Ready for the Grave

overview: Vita Jamie already exceeded thirty, working as a poorly paid sociologist, husband, tired father of two children. In the sociological institute involved in research attitudes of secondary school students. To better understand the target group, issued to the student daily and sits in his high school benches. Suddenly, as if they came back in time, they feel young and carefree again, she saw a lot of promises. Real life is but a fool can not log on early for their rights and duties of ...

title: Franz a Felice

title: Zločin v Polné

overview: An exciting drama from a detective history. In 1899 a dead girl - seamstress Anežka Hrůzová - was found between the village of Věžnička and the town of Polná. She was 19 and she had a cutting wound on the throat. There was no sexual violence involved and since the local doctors thought that there was not enough blood on the crime scene, everyone jumped to the conclusion that Jews must have killed her and added her blood to their passover matzot. There was a potential murderer at hand too - a cheeky, not very bright young Jewish rover, Leopold Hilsner…

title: Secret Delivery

overview: In the snowy Giant Mountains at the end of the German occupation, a group of child heroes rescue a downed French pilot. Their actions resemble the principle of the well-known 'telephone game' – the pilot is passed between mountain villages like a secret message – secret delivery – at school. But the children play a highly risky game. They are confronted by deadly soldiers of the occupying army, they must outwit traitors and informers and, last but not least, survive in the harsh conditions of winter in the mountains.

title: Hlas pro římského krále

overview: Czech Television's epic historical film draws on the breathtaking dramatic life of the great of Czech history, King Charles IV.

title: What Hedwig Didn't Tell Us

overview: A sad story about a young girl who is forced to move from one foster home to another.

title: Scalpel, Please

overview: An aging professor at a Prague neurological clinic is forced to confront his personal values and the harsh boundaries of medical science. Already burdened by the ultimate questions of life and death, his ethical convictions are put to the test by Víťa, a young patient with an inoperable tumor.

title: Ice Mother

overview: After her husband's death, Hana lives on alone in the family villa. Her two sons visit her with their families, but these visits frequently end in quarrels. When Hana meets Brona, a hardy fellow, inured to winter swimming, a new world opens before her. Brona's team-mates absorb her into their team and Hana gradually learns to overcome her fear of icy water. Her relation with Brona grows into love.

title: Like Never Before

overview: The end of summer in the film also means the end of life. Vladimír Holas dies. Who is Vladimír Holas? Painter, sculptor and teacher of district importance. He painted many beautiful pictures - but not as great as he wished. He wasn't in the party, he wasn't in the Union of Artists, he didn't sell out to the past regime. The house in the beautiful countryside is his last refuge, death is inevitable and he doesn't want to die in an estranged hospital. He wants to crouch standing up, the way he lived.

title: Absence of Closeness

overview: After another failed relationship Hedvika takes her three-month-old daughter Adélka and her dog to stay with her mother and her mum’s boyfriend. Hedvika doesn’t get on all that well with her mother, nor are her feelings towards Adélka as maternal as they could be. One day she finds some diaries that her late father left behind… This small-scale psychological drama by debutant Josef Tuka is shored up by its realistic characters, an understated performance from Jana Plodková, and perceptive, discreet lensing.

title: 8 Heads of Madness

overview: ANNA ALEXANDROVNA BARKOVA (1901-1976) Journalist and poet, meeting suspicious characters. Involved in immoral love affairs. Work in the Kremlin, fired. 1934 - Arrested, 5 years of penal servitude in Karaganda. Lived in Ukraine during the WWII. 1946 - Arrested, 5 years of penal servitude in the Komi Republic. 1956 - Rehabilitated, disability pension. 1957 - Arrested, 10 years of penal servitude. The film 8 Heads of Madness is about the eternal struggle between the artist and external circumstances, the artist and her demons and longings. 8 Heads of Madness is a drama woven from fragments of an appalling era. An unhappy cross-section of the 20th century in an unhappy country, as seen through the sensitive, perceptive vision of a poet.

title: Marguerite

overview: Paris in the 1920s. Marguerite Dumont is a wealthy woman with a passion for music and the opera. For years, she has performed regularly for a circle of guests. But Marguerite sings tragically out of tune and no one has ever told her. Her husband and her close friends have always encouraged her in her illusions. Things become very complicated the day she gets it into her head to perform in front of a genuine public, at the Opera.

title: Hrobník

overview: A serial killer murders wealthy businessmen. He lures them to his sprawling estate under the pretext of selling it. However, one of the murders does not fit into this series, even though it is similar to the others to a certain extent. The widow of businessman Sojková is also a suspect, but she is also acting as an amateur detective. She searches for her husband's killer on her own, as she believes the incompetent police are unable to catch him.

title: Dům U Zlatého úsvitu

overview: Magic and spells in the peaceful town of Jack-o'-lantern, which you will not find on any map. A funny story telling you how a magician's visit can turn his life back and how Ondra may have been fortunate enough. In the poetic fairy-tale grotesque, taking place in the non-existent town of Jack-o'-lantern, the time has stopped. The hands on the clocks show twelve minutes in twelve minutes, as if they were symbolically giving the last chance. Only the mysterious figure of Acrude knows how the story of the bluddy and the fate of his heroes will come. The well-known clairvoyant Heliodromus arrives in town. In front of school, the main hero of the story Ondra is acquainted with his daughter, Adelka...

title: The Case of the Dead Deadman

overview: A team of detectives bumbles and fumbles their way through an investigation that involves murder, blackmail and possibly someone they know.

title: Udělení milosti se zamítá

overview: A story inspired by real events from the 1950s to the 1970s. Honza Steiner was neither a tough guy nor a thug. He was just a boy who had the misfortune of finding himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. He ended up on the wrong path due to a series of unfortunate coincidences. Honza was raised in children's homes, juvenile detention centers, and eventually prison. He waged a long, undeclared war with a public security officer, one that was not exactly abounding in rules. The conflict culminated in a staged hunt for Honza, who unfortunately shot his arch-enemy and was sentenced to death for it.

title: Každý den karneval

overview: In an effort to secure his new family, an insurance agent undertakes an effective raid on clients, unaware that elsewhere, a scam is being hatched against him, and apparently not just one. The speed with which problems begin to pile up relentlessly rises vertiginously, and the fall becomes uncontrollable.

title: Amadeus

overview: In this TV film, the genius of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is resented by Antonio Salieri.

character: Větříček I. (Hrabě Johann Kilian von Strack)

title: Multicar Movie Show

overview: A series of performances by the Sklep theater.

title: Jako letní sníh – Život J. A. Komenského

overview: The life story of Jan Amos Comenius, who became probably the most famous Czech exile due to his beliefs and opinions. He spent most of his life outside his homeland, but nevertheless, with his unique ideas, which he recorded in almost 200 books and writings, he was far ahead of his time and influenced the whole world.

title: Loupežník

title: David Zeisberger – apoštol indiánů

title: Kryštof

overview: The story of a barely grown man who lives as a fresh postulant before vows in a community of monks. He not only shares with his brothers their world of contemplation, but also, as a link in a long chain, he takes those persecuted by the communist regime across the border to Germany. On one night's return, he witnesses a ruthless crackdown on a group of students fleeing from a nearby village where they had been on compulsory work experience. And not only that: that night, a community of monks is also liquidated in Action K (April 1950), and the returning Christopher witnesses their transport without being able to help his comrades.

title: Comeback

overview: Pavel Medek is leaving a psychiatric hospital. His world consists of the musicians from the band he used to perform with, managers of recording studios and concert agencies, and the atmosphere of clubs and pubs. His marriage is falling apart, his colleagues and friends are disappearing. He decides to move to the countryside and start over. Will he manage to change his lifestyle, find new inspiration, restore confidence in himself and his family, and jump back on the pop culture bandwagon?

title: Jan Hus – Cesta bez návratu

title: The Gardener's Year

overview: A devoted gardener and his wife live peacefully at the foot of a hill, tending their nursery according to nature’s rhythms. When a new castle owner seeks to transform the entire estate and demands they sell their garden business, the couple refuses. In response, the owner erects barbed-wire fences and places a guard at the entrance road…

title: Dry Season

overview: Two neighboring clans and two different approaches to life. What happens when the strained relationship of two domineering fathers interferes with the love of their own children?

title: Kroky vraha

overview: The body of an art history student who earned extra money selling pet food was found in an elegant residential neighborhood. The search for the killer leads Inspector Bergman and his colleague Sylvia among art lovers. At the center of events is journalist Julie Keller, who has withdrawn to her slightly dilapidated villa...

title: Cena medu

overview: Little Péťa visits his grandfather in the Krkonoše Mountains, where a swarm of bees settles on a tree. When Péťa disturbs it, the entire swarm attacks him, leaving him in a deep coma. Ordinary treatments fail, so Dr. Vrba insists on a beekeeper’s blood transfusion. Grandpa’s blood type doesn’t match, prompting a frantic search—ambulances, authorities, even foreign donors—to find a suitable beekeeper. After multiple transfusions from various volunteers, Péťa shows signs of recovery. With dawn breaking, hope returns as he awakens.

title: Pražská 5

overview: Director Tomáš Vorel created his experimental feature debut with members of renowned Prague non-traditional auteur theaters. The ensembles presented their own poetics and style through five "short stories" connected by satirical commentary by the "expert" Dr. Milan Šteindler, CSc.

title: Poutníci

title: Zkušební doba

title: Filthy

overview: Lena is a 17-year-old girl from a middle-class family who is experiencing her first love: secret night adventures and magical morning walks along the Danube. However, her dream world is shattered when she is raped. Withdrawing, she ultimately attempts to slit her wrists. Her family, helpless, entrusts her to a psychiatric institute.

title: Zítra to spustíme

title: Pozůstalost

title: Monsters

overview: A small town somewhere in the north. The body of a brutally murdered young girl, Anna, is found by the river. The investigation is taken up by the determined criminalist Laura Linhartová (Kristýna Ryška), and her old colleague Adam Beneš (Kryštof Hádek) is assigned to her. The main suspect is a recently convicted perpetrator who is responsible for a similar murder. Just when it seems that the search for Anna's murderer is over, new evidence appears that brings the whole case back to the beginning. The criminalists thus embark on a complicated investigation full of unexpected twists and turns. The circle of suspects in the small town expands dramatically. The tension between Laura and Adam rises, not to mention their different characters and shared past. And the question still hangs in the air: Who killed Anna Pittnerová?

title: Nevinný

title: Dům na samotě

title: Leť, ptáku leť!

title: Lady Macbeth z Újezdu

title: The Velvet Murders

title: Ordinary Failures

title: Eyewitness

title: We Have Never Been Modern

title: Dům na samotě

title: Maharal – Tajemství talismanu

title: Guard No. 47

title: Flower Buds

title: Hives

title: An Earthly Paradise for the Eyes

title: Walking Too Fast

title: Laputa

title: Antonyho šance

title: Ready for the Grave

title: Franz a Felice

title: Zločin v Polné

title: Secret Delivery

title: Hlas pro římského krále

title: What Hedwig Didn't Tell Us

title: Scalpel, Please

title: Ice Mother

title: Like Never Before

title: Absence of Closeness

title: 8 Heads of Madness

title: Marguerite

title: Hrobník

title: Dům U Zlatého úsvitu

title: The Case of the Dead Deadman

title: Udělení milosti se zamítá

title: Každý den karneval

title: Amadeus

title: Multicar Movie Show

title: Loupežník

title: David Zeisberger – apoštol indiánů

title: Kryštof

title: Comeback

title: Jan Hus – Cesta bez návratu

title: The Gardener's Year

title: Dry Season

title: Kroky vraha

title: Cena medu

title: Pražská 5

title: Poutníci

title: Zkušební doba

title: Filthy

title: Zítra to spustíme

title: Pozůstalost

title: Monsters

title: Nevinný


Claire Parker

Life on Mars

job: Executive Producer

overview: A detective chief inspector from 2006 is investigating a serial killer when he is knocked over by a speeding car. Waking up, he finds himself mysteriously transported back in time to 1973. Initially struggling to come to terms with his situation, he has to come to terms with the old-fashioned technology and attitude of the day, while figuring out how he came to be trapped in the past.

department: Production

original_name: Life on Mars

original_language: en

Hustle

job: Development Producer

overview: A motley group of London con artists pull of a series of daring and intricate stings.

original_name: Hustle

Anatomy of a Scandal

job: Co-Executive Producer

overview: Sophie's privileged life as the wife of powerful politician James unravels when scandalous secrets surface — and he stands accused of a shocking crime.

original_name: Anatomy of a Scandal

title: Return to Waterloo

overview: A man taking the train to work one morning is overcome by melancholy memories and morbid fantasies.

character: Walkman Girl

original_title: Return to Waterloo

title: The End of 'Life on Mars'

overview: A documentary about the conclusion of Life on Mars

character: Self

original_title: The End of 'Life on Mars'

title: Wide Sargasso Sea

overview: Dramatisation of Jean Rhys's novel set in 19th-century Jamaica. The tragic story of the first Mrs Rochester from Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre centres on an arranged marriage between a white Creole heiress and a brooding Englishman, who fall in love only to be torn apart by rumours, paranoia and a cultural divide.

original_title: Wide Sargasso Sea

job: Screenplay

title: Madame Web

overview: Forced to confront revelations about her past, paramedic Cassandra Webb forges a relationship with three young women destined for powerful futures...if they can all survive a deadly present.

department: Writing

original_title: Madame Web

title: Madame Web

title: We'll Take Manhattan

overview: We’ll Take Manhattan explores the explosive love affair between sixties supermodel Jean Shrimpton and photographer David Bailey.  Focusing on a wild and unpredictable 1962 Vogue photo shoot in New York, the drama brings to life the story of two young people falling in love, misbehaving and inadvertently defining the style of the Sixties along the way.

original_title: We'll Take Manhattan

job: Location Manager

title: The Parent Trap II

overview: Two best friends plot to get their single parents together to stop one of them from moving to New York.

original_title: The Parent Trap II

title: Return to Waterloo

media_type: movie

title: The End of 'Life on Mars'

title: Wide Sargasso Sea

title: Madame Web

title: Madame Web

title: We'll Take Manhattan

title: The Parent Trap II

Life on Mars

media_type: tv

known_for_department: Production