Akitake Kōno Movies

  • 1946
    No Regrets for Our Youth

    No Regrets for Our Youth

    No Regrets for Our Youth

    6.8731946HD

    Over more than a decade, the daughter of a Kyoto Imperial University professor comes of age as she witnesses her father fired for opposing the rise...

    No Regrets for Our Youth
  • 1954
    Sansho the Bailiff

    Sansho the Bailiff

    Sansho the Bailiff

    8.1031954HD

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

    Sansho the Bailiff
  • 1952
    The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail

    The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail

    The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail

    6.6591952HD

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

    The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail
  • 1943
    Sanshiro Sugata

    Sanshiro Sugata

    Sanshiro Sugata

    6.61943HD

    The story of Sanshiro, a strong stubborn youth, who travels into the city in order to learn Jujutsu. However, upon his arrival he discovers a new...

    Sanshiro Sugata
  • 1959
    The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

    The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

    The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

    8.11959HD

    After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in...

    The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
  • 1944
    The Most Beautiful

    The Most Beautiful

    The Most Beautiful

    5.631944HD

    The stories of several young women who work in a 'precision optical instruments' factory during the second World War. Despite illness, injury, and...

    The Most Beautiful
  • 1964
    The Shape of Night

    The Shape of Night

    The Shape of Night

    6.61964HD

    Yoshie Nogami, a factory worker by day, works as a bar hostess at night. She begins a passionate affair with one of her regulars, but his changing...

    The Shape of Night
  • 1958
    The Shogun’s Guard, Shinsengumi

    The Shogun’s Guard, Shinsengumi

    The Shogun’s Guard, Shinsengumi

    01958HD

    The Shinsengumi is a special unit of ronin commissioned by the Tokugawa shogunate to counter anti-shogunate activities in Kyoto. A sinister plot to...

    The Shogun’s Guard, Shinsengumi
  • 1945
    Sanshiro Sugata Part Two

    Sanshiro Sugata Part Two

    Sanshiro Sugata Part Two

    6.0851945HD

    In this government-suggested sequel, Sugata again grows as a judo master, and demonstrates his (and by extension, all Japanese) superiority to the...

    Sanshiro Sugata Part Two
  • 1964
    Adventures of Zatoichi

    Adventures of Zatoichi

    Adventures of Zatoichi

    6.71964HD

    Blind swordsman/masseuse Zatoichi befriends a young woman looking for her father, a village leader who has disappeared. As he helps her investigate...

    Adventures of Zatoichi
  • 1947
    Snow Trail

    Snow Trail

    Snow Trail

    7.11947HD

    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...

    Snow Trail
  • 1957
    A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era

    A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era

    A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era

    7.21957HD

    Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He makes the best of his situation by performing...

    A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
  • 1957
    The Temptress and the Monk

    The Temptress and the Monk

    The Temptress and the Monk

    01957HD

    Nominated for Golden Berlin Bear.

    The Temptress and the Monk
  • 1962
    The Escape

    The Escape

    The Escape

    71962HD

    Film about the 2-26 Incident.

    The Escape
  • 1955
    Taira Clan Saga

    Taira Clan Saga

    Taira Clan Saga

    7.11955HD

    Japan, 1137. The Taira family, a samurai clan, becomes involved in the disputes between Emperor Toba and the monks of Mount Hiei.

    Taira Clan Saga
  • 1973
    Miyamoto Musashi

    Miyamoto Musashi

    Miyamoto Musashi

    7.11973HD

    In Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving nothing because fighting on the losing side, & then...

    Miyamoto Musashi
  • 1953
    Tower of Lilies

    Tower of Lilies

    Tower of Lilies

    6.81953HD

    A group of Okinawan high school girls are drafted as nurses during the American invasion of the island. As the enemy army advances further, the...

    Tower of Lilies
  • 1966
    Japan's Most Chivalrous

    Japan's Most Chivalrous

    Japan's Most Chivalrous

    01966HD

    Japan's Most Chivalrous
  • 1961
    The Conspirator

    The Conspirator

    The Conspirator

    6.41961HD

    Young lord Saburo Nobuyasu struggles to find comfort in life. His arranged marriage to Tokuhime, daughter of one-time family enemy Oda Nobunaga,...

    The Conspirator
  • 1964
    Ken

    Ken

    Ken

    7.81964HD

    Kokubu, captain of his university's kendo team, is a mystery to those who know him: An ascetic dedicated to a point of obsession with the simplicity...

    Ken