Masahiro Makino Movies

In old Edo, Kakunojo (Chiezo), a dandy about town, falls in love with Oichi (Isuzu Yamada), whose merchant family is much beyond Kakunojo's status....

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

A film based on the life of the bakuto Kunisada Chuji

Waiting woman

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

The story follows a man haunted by debt and crime, who flees with his mistress on a tense journey marked by betrayals and desperate choices. The film...

A representative film directed by Masahiro Makino, son of Shozo Makino ("the father of Japanese film"). This film lent status to ensemble casts that...

Jurobei, a kaisen tonya (wholesaler in port) in Awa, was wronged and killed on the day of the Dance Festival by the evil merchant & the chamberlin....

1945 Japanese movie

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

All that remains of the first Samurai Town Story is the concluding battle.

A pickpocket falls in with a group of prostitutes who have one strict rule: none of them may ever sleep with a man without taking his money —...

The first film in the Daiei series. At the command of Lord Aiba, Tange Sazen targets two famous swords owned by Onozuka Tessai.

After a sacred stone lantern is stolen by a ruthless gang, Jirochō is drawn into a deadly feud involving betrayal, gambling dens, and a young...

Arima Ghost-Cat movie.

Film about Ghost-Cat.

Sozenji Baba is a 1928 black and white Japanese silent film directed by Masahiro Makino. It is an ambitious film in which Makino deals with the...