Akitake Kōno Movies
- 1959
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love8.0551959HD
After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in...
- 1952
The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail
The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail6.71952HD
Yoshitsune Minamoto, disguised with his retinue as monks, must make do with a comical porter as their guide through hostile territory en route to...
- 1943
Sanshiro Sugata
Sanshiro Sugata6.521943HD
The story of Sanshiro, a strong stubborn youth, who travels into the city in order to learn Jujutsu. However, upon his arrival he discovers a new...
- 1946
No Regrets for Our Youth
No Regrets for Our Youth6.7711946HD
Over more than a decade, the daughter of a Kyoto Imperial University professor comes of age as she witnesses her father fired for opposing the rise...
- 1954
Sansho the Bailiff
Sansho the Bailiff8.0981954HD
In medieval Japan, a woman and her children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was exiled years before.
- 1964
Adventures of Zatoichi
Adventures of Zatoichi6.71964HD
Blind swordsman/masseuse Zatoichi befriends a young woman looking for her father, a village leader who has disappeared. As he helps her investigate...
- 1957
A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era7.1771957HD
Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He makes the best of his situation by performing...
- 1944
The Most Beautiful
The Most Beautiful5.5781944HD
The stories of several young women who work in a 'precision optical instruments' factory during the second World War. Despite illness, injury, and...
- 1964
The Lord's spy
The Lord's spy01964HD
Maeda Tsunanori, the lord of Kaga Domain, had two young princes - Katsumaru, the son of his legitimate wife, who died, and Yasunosuke, the son of his...
- 1945
Sanshiro Sugata Part Two
Sanshiro Sugata Part Two6.1231945HD
In this government-suggested sequel, Sugata again grows as a judo master, and demonstrates his (and by extension, all Japanese) superiority to the...
- 1947
Snow Trail
Snow Trail7.11947HD
Three bank robbers, Eijima, Nojiri, and Takasugi, flee the police and escape into the mountains. At an inn high in the Japanese Alps, Eijima and...
- 1973
Miyamoto Musashi
Miyamoto Musashi7.11973HD
In Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving nothing because fighting on the losing side, & then...
- 1969
Crimson Bat, the Blind Swordswoman
Crimson Bat, the Blind Swordswoman6.81969HD
A young girl named Oichi is abandoned by her mother and blinded by a lightning strike. When her guardian is killed, she learns to wield a sword from...
- 1943
Military Song of the Morning Mist
Military Song of the Morning Mist01943HD
At the beginning of the Meiji era, three brothers of a samurai family each stand up to the times.
- 1962
Hibari's Tale of Pathos
Hibari's Tale of Pathos01962HD
Hibari Misora plays a singing guide, who is secretly in love, her fortunes turn for the worse when a gangster’s henchman hears her singing and...
- 1955
Taira Clan Saga
Taira Clan Saga7.0581955HD
Special Forces commander Captain Tadamori returns to Kyoto after successfully defeating the uprising of pirates in the western sea of Japan. But...
- 1960
Castle of Flames
Castle of Flames7.21960HD
In 17th century Japan, Young Lord Masato returns after years abroad to find everything changed: his peace-loving father has died in what he soon...
- 1967
Heiji, the Detective
Heiji, the Detective3.81967HD
Famous for his coin tossing when capturing criminals, an Edo detective, Heiji, launches an investigation into the mysterious murder of his friend...
- 1944
Battle Troop
Battle Troop01944HD
Three IJN flyers Mikami (Susumu Fujita), Kawakami (Masayuki Mori) and Murakami (Akitake Kono) are good friends, and they are all renowned for their...
- 1953
Hana no shôgai
Hana no shôgai01953HD
In 1842, in the Umemoku Mansion within Hikone Castle, Naosuke Ii, despite the tumultuous times, was engrossed in the world of tea ceremony. His...