Kusuo Abe Movies

A lowly drunken samurai finds an abandoned baby in the woods and takes it home. A gift from a fox. But there's something special about the boy.

Kind of the Japanese equivalent of the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, this film is a fictionalized version of the gang battle in the later Edo period,...

1716, Yoshimune becomes the 8th Shogun as high Shogunate officials are attacked. While the government tries to keep these incidents under wraps, they...

At the transformed Fumaden (Demon Subduing) Temple, with the dynamic efforts of Sukesan and Kakusan, and the appearance of the heroic woman Oshin,...

Young swordsman, Tsukigata Hanpeita, longs for the day when rival clans cease their struggles for power and put an end to meaningless feudal wars....

Japanese horror movie from 1936.

Magistrate Ooka-Echizen faces a crime over a pillbox.

Master swordsman and loyal vassal Saotome Mondonosuke goes on a mission to find a missing princess.

The final film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass.

Japanese film.

Scammer Horikawa Shinbei hopes to make a quick buck using Namie, a stripper under his control.

Japanese film released to commemorate the 7th anniversary of Shintoho's founding.

Friendship between an ambitious young thief and an artist during the Warring States period.

Every year, at the festival, familiar merchants such as Toraemon, a magic trick, Tokubei, a blowgun, Kaji, acrobatics, and Unsaibo, a ritual, gather...