Nemuri Kyoshiro 8: Burai-ken

7.3

Eighth installment about Nemuri Kyoshiro.

Love's Twisting Path

6.5

A love story torn by swords... Set in Kyoto in the last days of the Edo Period, the bloody conflict continues between local feudal domains, which aim to overthrow the Tokugawa Shogunate, and the Shogun's police and…

Sanshiro Sugata Part II

6.7

Two years after leaving his dojo to take a trip, Sanshiro returns to face off against two brothers who have mastered karate and seek revenge against Sanshiro for defeating their older brother. Meanwhile, Sanshiro proves…

Sugata Sanshiro

6.8

The story of Sanshiro Sugata, A young man troubled by personal problems, takes up judo. His teacher, Shogoro Yano, is a devout man who has aroused the enmity of the local practitioners of jujitsu, the older and more…

Sugata Sanshiro

6.8

Sugata Sanshiro practices the Kodokan-Yano school of judo, and is its most skilled fighter behind Master Yano himself. When he comes across a young woman walking in the rain with broken clogs, he rushes to fix them…

Love at First Fight

7.0

Fearing that her husband might leave her due to her inability to bring a boy to the family, Mrs. Wu declares her tenth daughter her "tenth" son, who is later named Wu Shi Lang. The goal is for Shi Lang to win as many…

Ying Ying Yi Xiao Xiao Lang Gu

6.8

Where a Good Man Goes

6.6

A former triad boss is just released from a Macau prison and ends up in a small inn runs by a simple and honest widow. He quickly goes back to his harsh and brutal lifestyle trying to regain his position of respect…

Tsubaki Sanjuro

7.2

"Tsubaki Sanjuro" is a remake of Sanjuro (1962) by Akira Kurosawa. Sanjuro returns with sharper, faster, subtler sword, talking and perception. He uses them to settle the trouble and uses them good!

Sanshiro Sugata

7.3

Sanshiro is a young man who decides to enter a jujitsu school, the reason he came to the city. There, one night he sees a man using a judo skill, and falls in love with the art, begging the master to teach him. But…

Kinoshita Rokusaburo

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Nakamura Sennosuke

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Tamaari Yoichiro

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Kurihara Thomas

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Niizuma Shiro

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Aramaki Yoshiro

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Sawai Saburo

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Arashi Kakumatsuro

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