Zenpei Saga Movies

1969 Nikkatsu yakuza movie

Wartime propaganda filmed by the Japanese in occupied China, Shirley Yamaguchi portrays an orphan rescued from the streets by a kindly Japanese...

Taro Uno, nicknamed "Fighting Taro," has joined Hyakusho Trading Company, which is currently busy with bidding for Southeast Asian reparations...

Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her increasing blindness.

A young doctor falls into a despair of developments. He plans to revenge the disgrace inflicted upon his sister, whose engagement was broken as a...

Jiro, a young yakuza, and Mami, a diplomat’s daughter, are two young lovers from different worlds. Having met by accident, they soon discover a...

Woman melodrama by Shiro Toyoda

A boxing melodrama. Two friends become boxers and begin training for the championship. These two boys eventually face each other in the ring.

Based on the Seichō Matsumoto's story The Woman Who Took the Local Paper.

A detective sets out on a manhunt to catch a murderer before the crime's statue of limitations runs out.

Among Yoshimura’s complex and political works, this episodic film, set in the early 1930s, follows the life of a young left-wing student...

Set in Qingdao, China, a Japanese company locates an office there and begins work and cooperation with a local Chinese company for business. Many...

Sixth part in the Enblem of Man series.

A college student takes over the family business in the field of organised crime.

Shinsaku was once a renowned playwright, has now been left behind by journalism and is living a lethargic life in Oiso. His family is concerned with...

Comedy of a phony doctor.

A period film about a peasant revolt in the region near Mount Fuji, occasioned by high officials' depriving the farmers of their water rights.

Katiri is a reporter so ambitiously amoral that he’ll sell out anyone—including his partner and the drug dealer he’s sleeping...