Kazuo Miyagawa Movies

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the...

Two Jesuit priests encounter persecution when they travel to Japan in the 17th century to spread Christianity and search for their mentor.

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

This impressionistic portrait of the 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympics pays as much attention to the crowds and workers as it does to the actual competitive...

In medieval Japan, a woman and her children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was exiled years earlier.

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...

Ogami Itto is hired to kill a tattooed female assassin and battles Retsudo, head of the Yagyu clan, and his son Gunbei.

A middle-aged husband of a younger woman finds her youth intimidating to the point that he cannot become aroused. His solution involves the...

Otsuya, the daughter of a rich merchant, elopes with her lover Shinsuke, an employee of her father's. During their flight, Otsuya's beauty attracts...

When a theater troupe's master visits his old flame, he unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with devastating consequences.

Zatoichi runs afoul of some evil fugitives, working for a corrupt law official.

Shinnosuke is introduced to Shizu as a prospective marriage partner, but he falls in love with her widowed sister Oyu. Convention forbids Oyu to...

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...

The lives of five sex workers employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation is debating the passage of an anti-prostitution law.

With a price on his head, Ichi seeks tranquillity in a favorite village. Since his last visit, it has fallen prey to Boss Masagoro, the son of a...

A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed wherever she goes, even as the modern world imposes change around her.

A traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival.

The blind masseuse is targeted by the leader of a powerful yakuza group while also fending off a jealous husband bent on revenge. Zatoichi tours...

Kisuke, a young bamboo worker marries Tomoe, a geisha who was once involved with Kisuke's late father.

In Kyoto a young kimono maker with traditional ideas gets involved with a married professor.