Masahiro Makino Movies

Wandering swordsman Kanbei, parading through town with a sign that reads "Seeking fights, selling my life cheap." One day, he receives a request from...

In old Edo, Kakunojo (Chiezo), a dandy about town, falls in love with Oichi (Isuzu Yamada), whose merchant family is much beyond Kakunojo's status....

The purple hood reveals the embezzlement of public money by officials. A remake of Masahiro Makino's 1923 film.

A film about the rivalry and friendship between firefighter Chоji and sumo wrestler Sokichi Fudoyama.

Waiting woman

1942 adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's novel.

An actor, hit on the head, dreams that he has become legendary one-eyed gangster Mori no Ishimatsu.

In this movie, Sashichi tries to catch a serial killer who kills his victims with shurikens.

Yakuza drama with Meiko Kaji directed by Masahiro Makino

Based on the famous novel by Yamagami Itaro, this is the story of a group of ronin living in abject poverty in the latter days of the Edo period....

Young swordsman, Tsukigata Hanpeita, longs for the day when rival clans cease their struggles for power and put an end to meaningless feudal wars....

Yukiko Nogami is rescued during a mountain blizzard by handsome forester Shinkichi, and the two subsequently fall in love. But when Shinkichi dies in...

With the help of famous yakuza Jirocho, brave and quick tempered Eijiro takes revenge on the death of his close friend.

1948 adaptation of Golden Devil

The Domain: Severed Relations

Adventures of Mori no Ishimatsu, a famous member of Jirocho gang. Ishimatsu is strong in righteousness weak to mercy, who falls in love at first...

A pickpocket falls in with a group of prostitutes who have one strict rule: none of them may ever sleep with a man without taking his money —...