Akitake Kôno

Kokubu Jiro is the captain of his university’s Kendo team. Often standoffish, mild, stoic and minimalist, Kokubu is a mystery to those who ...

Movie adaptation of the 1959 ninja novel. With war against Korea looming on the horizon, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, the ‘Taiko’ becomes the ...

In medieval Japan, a woman and his children journey to find the family’s patriarch, who was exiled years before.

Saburo and Keiko fall in love with each other but the tide of war separates them.

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 ...

Yukie, the well-bred daughter of a university professor, is shocked when her father is relieved of his post for his political teachings during a ...

Yoshitsune Minamoto, disguised with his retinue as monks, must make do with a comical porter as their guide through hostile territory en route to ...

Three IJN flyers Mikami (Susumu Fujita), Kawakami (Masayuki Mori) and Murakami (Akitake Kono) are good friends, and they are all renowned for ...