Shinobu Araki Movies

During Japan's Warring States period three young Tokugawa vassals head their separate ways after Takeda Shingen's forces overran their castle. When...

Satoko is a mistress by trade or fate: when her master, the silkscreen artist of the Kohoan Temple in Kyoto, dies, she is given to the temple's...

Film directed by Kenji Misumi.

A story depicting the true nature of a vulnerable woman who abandons love, severs the bond between father and daughter, and challenges the very...

The film depicts how the work to build the Great Buddha overcame a number of obstacles as proponents and opponents clashed over the construction of...

Disguised as a beggar monk, Ryunosuke is harassed along the road by the rowdy members of a country dojo or fencing school malingering outside their...

Utaji heard that her ex-lover Seijirou would get married to Ochiyo a daughter of Ise-ya. She murdered Ochiyo and took over the Ise-ya's shop with...

The Snake Princess in hot pursuit… The stand-in bride enters the castle… But her true identity has been exposed… Life or death...

Tsunamune Date, the young lord of Sendai Domain, was ordered by the shogunate to stand down after being spotted in a brothel. Shortly after, four...

On the night of the summer Obon festival, Hagiwara Shinzaburo meets a beautiful courtesan named Otsuyu. Not knowing she's a ghost, he becomes...

A young samurai learns that he is the illegitimate son of the Shogun. Hoping to reunite with his birth father, he travels to Edo to find Shogun...

Early film by Kenji Misumi.

A story loosely based on the affair between Empress Kōken-Shōtoku and the monk Dōkyō, set during the Nara period (710–794...

A scientist successfully creates an invisibility serum, only to be kidnapped by a gang of thugs who wish to use the formula to rob a priceless jewel.

Who is Shinzo, the man who captivates both men and women…? Official lanterns flutter chaotically through the Great Edo of love and...