Iwao Ôtani Movies
- 1954
Sansho the Bailiff
Sansho the Bailiff8.1021954HD
In medieval Japan, a woman and her children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was exiled years before.
- 1950
Rashomon
Rashomon8.0861950HD
Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, "Rashomon" is perhaps the finest film ever to investigate the philosophy of...
- 1953
Ugetsu
Ugetsu7.9721953HD
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...
- 1962
The Tale of Zatoichi
The Tale of Zatoichi7.31962HD
The adventures of a blind, gambling masseur and master swordsman. Zatoichi targets a yakuza-controlled village, because war with a neighbouring...
- 1955
Taira Clan Saga
Taira Clan Saga7.0581955HD
Special Forces commander Captain Tadamori returns to Kyoto after successfully defeating the uprising of pirates in the western sea of Japan. But...
- 1954
The Crucified Lovers
The Crucified Lovers7.71954HD
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...
- 1951
Miss Oyu
Miss Oyu7.1521951HD
Shinnosuke is introduced to Shizu as a prospective marriage partner, but he falls in love with her widowed sister Oyu. Convention forbids Oyu to...
- 1966
Zatoichi's Pilgrimage
Zatoichi's Pilgrimage71966HD
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.
- 1953
A Geisha
A Geisha7.51953HD
Eiko seeks out Miyoharu, a geisha, and asks to be her apprentice. When she is ready to receive clients, both women want the right to refuse certain...
- 1967
Zatoichi Challenged
Zatoichi Challenged6.71967HD
Ichi is staying at an inn when a woman dies. Her dying wish is that Ichi take her son to his father, an artist living in a nearby town. After...
- 1963
An Actor's Revenge
An Actor's Revenge6.51963HD
In Edo Japan, a kabuki actor seeks revenge against the three men who drove his parents to their deaths years ago.
- 1966
Wrath of Daimajin
Wrath of Daimajin6.41966HD
In a mountainous region of Japan, Lord Arakawa kidnaps the men of nearby villages to use as slave labor, producing gunpowder from his sulfur pits. A...
- 1970
Mission: Iron Castle
Mission: Iron Castle6.61970HD
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...
- 1968
Zatoichi and the Fugitives
Zatoichi and the Fugitives6.91968HD
Zatoichi runs afoul of some evil fugitives, working for a corrupt law official.
- 1991
Heat Wave
Heat Wave5.81991HD
Rin Jyoshima lost her father to death-by-gambling; years later, she's grown up in the Kosugi household and has fallen victim to gambling herself.
- 1971
Zatoichi Meets the One-Armed Swordsman
Zatoichi Meets the One-Armed Swordsman6.71971HD
Zatoichi is a blind massage therapist and swordsman who finds out that something troubling is taking place on the outskirts of town. After...
- 1969
Devil's Temple
Devil's Temple6.41969HD
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,...
- 1963
The Third Shadow Warrior
The Third Shadow Warrior7.11963HD
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,...
- 1954
The Great White Tiger Platoon
The Great White Tiger Platoon61954HD
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...
- 1958
Nichiren and the Great Mongol Invasion
Nichiren and the Great Mongol Invasion01958HD
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...