Oda Nobunaga (1534–1582) was a major daimyo during the Warring State period of Japanese history. He was the second son of Oda Nobuhide, a deputy military governor with land holdings in Owari province. Nobunaga lived a life of continuous military conquest, eventually conquering a third of Japanese daimyo before his death in 1582. Telling the story of his rise to prominence as he leads an army of 4,000 men against the 40,000 troops of Lord Imagawa Yoshimoto to prevent the arrogant daimyo from crushing the Oda clan and taking control of the entire nation. From a newly restored anamorpic widescreen print, this is the ultimate warlord movie.

A Geisha

1953

Japanese

7.6

♡ 6

100%

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Kenji Mizoguchi Director

Ayako Wakao as Eiko

Seizaburô Kawazu as Kusuda

Ichirô Sugai as Saeki

Eitarô Shindô as Sawamoto

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.

Sisters of the Gion

1936

Japanese

7.4

♡ 11

89%

Kenji Mizoguchi Director

Taizô Fukami as Kimura

Eitarô Shindô as Kudo, the drygoods merchant

Isuzu Yamada as O-Mocha

Yôko Umemura as Umekichi

Umekichi, a geisha in the Gion district of Kyoto, feels obliged to help her lover Furusawa when he asks to stay with her after becoming bankrupt and leaving his wife. However her younger sister Omocha tells her she is wasting her time and money on a loser. She thinks that they should both find wealthy patrons to support them. Omocha therefore tries various schemes to get rid of Furusawa, and set themselves up with better patrons.

Miss Oyu

1951

Japanese

7.4

♡ 2

Kenji Mizoguchi Director

Eijirô Yanagi as Eitaro

Eitarô Shindô as Kusaemon

Yûji Hori as Shinnosuke Seribashi

Nobuko Otowa as Shizu

Shinnosuke is introduced to Shizu as a prospective marriage partner, but he falls in love with her widowed sister Oyu. Convention forbids Oyu to marry because she has to raise her son as the head of her husband's family. Oyu convinces Shinnosuke and Shizu to marry so that she can remain close to Shinnosuke.

A Story from Chikamatsu

1954

Japanese

8.0

♡ 16

Kenji Mizoguchi Director

Shinobu Araki as

Ichirô Sugai as Gembei

Eitarô Shindô as Ishun

Kôichi Katsuragi as Priest

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.

Drunken Angel

1948

Japanese

7.6

♡ 21

94%

Akira Kurosawa Director

Toshirô Mifune as Matsunaga

Reizaburô Yamamoto as Okada

Eitarô Shindô as Takahama

Senkichi Ômura as Yakuza Follower

In postwar Tokyo, a blunt, alcohol-soaked doctor diagnoses a swaggering young yakuza with tuberculosis, forging an uneasy bond that’s tested when the gangster’s ruthless former boss returns and drags him back toward the swampy underworld he can’t escape.

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Osaka Elegy

Fuunji Oda Nobunaga

A Geisha

Sisters of the Gion

Miss Oyu

A Story from Chikamatsu

Drunken Angel