Masahiro Makino Movies

Revenge breeds revenge. Ikuta Denpachiro, the martial arts instructor of the Honda family in Koriyama, lost a fight to the young samurai Enjo...

A wandering Jirocho stumbles upon his wife's possible murder and has other adventures while on the run.

A man is brutally murdered and his famed shamisen (a three-stringed musical instrument) called the "Yamabiko" stolen. Prince Kogenta swears to avenge...

Jirocho the gambler hits the road.

Yakuza drama with Meiko Kaji directed by Masahiro Makino

Jirocho and his henchmen befriend Ishimatsu, a wanderer in Mishima.

Film about Ghost-Cat.

Raiden is a 1928 black and white Japanese silent film with benshi accompaniment directed by Shozo Makino and Sadatsugu Matsuda. It is a posthumous...

A story of young people in the immediate aftermath of World War II, their post-war careers, sorrows, and triumphs.

1942 adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's novel.

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

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

When the aging leader of the yakuza gang Maeda-gumi decides to retire, many of the gang members have no confidence in the young man he has chosen to...

A classic battle between good and evil pits an unscrupulous fortuneteller who has been preying on the good citizens of Edo against a master-less...

The life of entertainers in Asakusa’s pleasure quarters. An exciting yakuza story with superb action.

Coal miner Isamu Oba is forced to quit his village and leave his mother and siblings behind. Mining buddy Ichiro accompanies him to Tokyo, and the...

A film based on the life of the bakuto Kunisada Chuji