Masahiro Makino Movies

A hobo exposes the misdeeds of a new yakuza.

The Domain: Where The Blade Enters

Based on the comic by Yutaka Asou

Hanakosan (1943, TOHO, MAKINO Masahiro), a thoroughly light and joyful musical comedy, influenced by Busby Berkeley films, against the national...

Based on the old tale of Jiraiya, this 1937 version is essentially a revenge story with fantastic visuals.

Action and adventure abound in this story of friendship between two rival firefighters, Kichigoro and Jirokichi in old Japan. When Mukai Sadayu, the...

1945 Japanese movie

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 —...

Japanese drama film.

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

A Kansai gang is up to conquer the whole country under the mask of a patriotic group. However after an assassination their henchmen will struggle to...

Adventures of famous yakuza boss Jirocho and his disciples who settle in Kofu.

In this movie, Sashichi tries to catch a serial killer who kills his victims with shurikens.

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....

Japanese horror movie from 1950.

A captivating operetta by Masahiro Makino based on Juppensha Ikku's humorous novel "Tōkaidōchū Hizakurige" starring Chiezo Kataoka and...