Kusuo Abe Movies

This is the second installment of the trilogy based on Japan’s greatest novel “The Great Bodhisattva Pass”, following the life and...

The first film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass.

A young lord lives against the will of his father Lord Tokugawa.

An injured Edo official is rescued by a vassal whose appearance is exactly like himself, and swears to sweep out the criminals from the town on his...

Tetsunosuke, an eccentric doctor and an owner of a fencing school, takes aim against corrupt authorities.

After settling the matter of shogunal succession, the retired Old Lord of Mito finds himself in a sea of trouble when he gets involved in the...

Master swordsman and loyal vassal Saotome Mondonosuke goes on a mission to find a missing princess.

An action-packed, dramatic gangster film.

A group of men living a low life in Edo help each other to make the best out of their lives.

Period piece about a young man who, because of his hard life alone in the world, has become a yakuza. When he hears that his mother may be living in...

Shogun Yoshitane’s order to recover the secret scroll triggers a series of ninja warfare during the Muromachi period.

Action and adventure abound in this story of friendship between two rival firefighters, Kichigoro and Jirokichi in old Japan. When Mukai Sadayu, the...

A bold and cheerful tale that broke new ground in the historical drama genre.

Bright samurai movie innovatively adapted from a classic story. A traveling masterless samurai is asked by a daughter of an established samurai...

The year is 1805. Napoleon ruled Europe. Ienari is the 11th Tokugawa Shogun. An incident, which was an open official secret, took place on the...

In the first year of Chōroku, Satomi Yoshimi, lord of Takita Castle in Awa, faces defeat by neighboring lord Anzai Kagesuren. As the castle...

1961 Japanese movie