Movies: Shinobu Araki

  • 1953
    Gate of Hell

    Gate of Hell (1953)

    Gate of Hell

    7.11953HD

    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....

    Gate of Hell
  • 1954
    Sansho the Bailiff

    Sansho the Bailiff (1954)

    Sansho the Bailiff

    8.11954HD

    In medieval Japan, a woman and her children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was exiled years before....

    Sansho the Bailiff
  • 1954
    The Crucified Lovers

    The Crucified Lovers (1954)

    The Crucified Lovers

    7.81954HD

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

    The Crucified Lovers
  • 1955
    Taira Clan Saga

    Taira Clan Saga (1955)

    Taira Clan Saga

    7.11955HD

    Special Forces commander Captain Tadamori returns to Kyoto after successfully defeating the uprising of pirates in the western sea of Japan. But because the high courtiers dislike career soldiers gaining power and influence, they ignore the will of e...

    Taira Clan Saga
  • 1968
    Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters

    Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters (1968)

    Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters

    6.51968HD

    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 clea...

    Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters
  • 1966
    Zatoichi's Pilgrimage

    Zatoichi's Pilgrimage (1966)

    Zatoichi's Pilgrimage

    71966HD

    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....

    Zatoichi's Pilgrimage
  • 1963
    Shinsengumi Chronicles

    Shinsengumi Chronicles (1963)

    Shinsengumi Chronicles

    6.51963HD

    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....

    Shinsengumi Chronicles
  • 1962
    The Temple of Wild Geese

    The Temple of Wild Geese (1962)

    The Temple of Wild Geese

    6.31962HD

    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 pr...

    The Temple of Wild Geese
  • 1949
    Flame of My Love

    Flame of My Love (1949)

    Flame of My Love

    5.61949HD

    A woman's struggle for equality in Japan in the 1880s. Eiko Hirayama leaves Okayama for Tokyo, where she helps the fledgling Liberal Party and falls in love with its leader Kentaro Omoi, just as the party is being disbanded by the government....

    Flame of My Love
  • 1954
    The Princess Sen

    The Princess Sen (1954)

    The Princess Sen

    51954HD

    During the Warring States era of early 17th century Japan, teenage princess Sen is besieged with other members of her family in Osaka Castle, by a rival force led by her grandfather....

    The Princess Sen
  • 1966
    The Betrayal

    The Betrayal (1966)

    The Betrayal

    6.41966HD

    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 unders...

    The Betrayal
  • 1959
    Jirocho Fuji

    Jirocho Fuji (1959)

    Jirocho Fuji

    6.81959HD

    Legendary yakuza Shimizu Jirocho and his 28 henchmen travel the unruly path from a 'Fire Festival' in Akiba to a decisive battle by the Fujigawa....

    Jirocho Fuji
  • 1959
    Hebihime sama

    Hebihime sama (1959)

    Hebihime sama

    01959HD

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    Hebihime sama
  • 1957
    Advance Patrol

    Advance Patrol (1957)

    Advance Patrol

    5.51957HD

    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 f...

    Advance Patrol
  • 1961
    Buddha

    Buddha (1961)

    Buddha

    01961HD

    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 ...

    Buddha
  • 1961
    Kojiro's Turning Swallow Cut

    Kojiro's Turning Swallow Cut (1961)

    Kojiro's Turning Swallow Cut

    5.51961HD

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

    Kojiro's Turning Swallow Cut
  • 1957
    Secret of Naruto

    Secret of Naruto (1957)

    Secret of Naruto

    6.91957HD

    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...

    Secret of Naruto
  • 1961
    Satan's Sword III: The Final Chapter

    Satan's Sword III: The Final Chapter (1961)

    Satan's Sword III: The Final Chapter

    71961HD

    Disguised as a beggar monk, Ryunosuke is harassed along the road by the rowdy members of a country dojo or fencing school malingering outside their fencing hall. The third film in the Satan's Sword trilogy....

    Satan's Sword III: The Final Chapter
  • 1963
    Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance

    Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance (1963)

    Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance

    6.61963HD

    [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...

    Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance
  • 1962
    Seven Miles to Nakayama

    Seven Miles to Nakayama (1962)

    Seven Miles to Nakayama

    6.31962HD

    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...

    Seven Miles to Nakayama