Saburo Date Movies

A poor peasant, after years of scraping, becomes a rich and powerful Osaka merchant. Mizoguchi Kenji's final project; he died before completing it...

A heartwarming comedy about Osaka’s slowest taxi driver who searches all over the city for the missing daughter of a former general who has...

Eight members of the Kuroinu clan gather to divide an inheritance, but one of them is suddenly found decapitated. A series of murders unfolds, with...

Itarō abandons his life as a hatamoto to become a yakuza.

A true-story film depicting a police officer’s pursuit of a criminal who carries out a series of attacks on pawnshops and banks, running amok...

A period drama that depicts the romance between Otomi and Yosaburo.

When the wife of a 17th-century Kyoto scrollmaker is falsely accused of having an affair with his best employee, the pair flee the city and find...

Zatoichi's trek through 88 temples to atone for his violent past is interrupted as he stumbles into a village terrorized by a violent yakuza boss.

Returning to the village where a year before he had killed Hirate, a much-admired opponent, Zatoichi encounters another swordsman and former rival in...

A beautiful swordswoman dressed as a man falls in love with the young lord who is her enemy.

A romance between a female student and a young professor, where friendship, temptation, and jealousy intertwine.