Movies: Etsuji Azuma

The government in Edo era is suffering from a financial crisis. It hires "Kage" to provoke the collapse of small hans (prefectures). "Kagekari" are people who were hired by Daimyos (mayers of local governments) to resist kage. The young mayor of Suwa...

A re-edit of the 1964 Agon miniseries created by screenwriter Shinichi Sekizawa, who wrote the majority of the original Showa Godzilla films. It was released by Toho Video in the 1980s and on dvd in 2005....

On a snowy winter night, Soetsu, a blind masseur, and his daughter Shiga visit the nobleman Shinzaemon Fukami. Drunk, he assaults Shiga, and when Soetsu tries to protect her, he’s brutally killed. Later, Soetsu's body is thrown into a swamp, but his ...