Kusuo Abe Movies

Scammer Horikawa Shinbei hopes to make a quick buck using Namie, a stripper under his control.

Finding more freedom on the high seas than in war-torn Japan, the 'Bahansen' (Pirate ships) based on the Seto Inland Sea during the Warring Period...

After settling the matter of shogunal succession, the retired Old Lord of Mito finds himself in a sea of trouble when he gets involved in the...

1961 Japanese movie

Magistrate Ooka-Echizen faces a crime over a pillbox.

Utaemon Ichikawa plays the role of Hikoshiro Navate, who has a strong sense of justice and opposes power and tyranny with his will and spirit.

Based on the play ”Mabuta no haha” by famed author Shin Hasegawa, this is the first major starring role for Tomisaburo Wakayama. This...

Shogun Yoshitane’s order to recover the secret scroll triggers a series of ninja warfare during the Muromachi period.

One of the great stories from Japan’s rich history comes to life in this true tale of the bloody showdown between two rival yakuza gangs in the...

Bunkichi disguises himself as a yakuza to solve a mysterious death.

Okinu, the beautiful daughter of a feudal lord, discovers her true identity and leaves her lavish life behind to avenge her birth father's death.

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...

Tetsunosuke, an eccentric doctor and an owner of a fencing school, takes aim against corrupt authorities.

The sole survivor of a shipwreck pursues the whereabouts of his friends’ missing family members in Edo.

A lowly drunken samurai finds an abandoned baby in the woods and takes it home. A gift from a fox. But there's something special about the boy.

The final film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass.

Nakamura Yukinojo gains popularity in Edo's kabuki scene as a handsome onnagata (a male actor who plays female roles). But hidden behind the placid...

A young lord lives against the will of his father Lord Tokugawa.

The long-awaited Hakkenshi arrive at Takita Castle, which is saddened by successive defeats.