Akitake Kōno Movies
- 1959
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love8.11959HD
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...
- 1954
Sansho the Bailiff
Sansho the Bailiff8.11954HD
In medieval Japan, a woman and her children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was exiled years before.
- 1952
The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail
The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail6.71952HD
Yoshitsune Minamoto, disguised with his retinue as monks, must make do with a comical porter as their guide through hostile territory en route to...
- 1943
Sanshiro Sugata
Sanshiro Sugata6.51943HD
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...
- 1946
No Regrets for Our Youth
No Regrets for Our Youth6.81946HD
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...
- 1955
Taira Clan Saga
Taira Clan Saga7.11955HD
Special Forces commander Captain Tadamori returns to Kyoto after successfully defeating the uprising of pirates in the western sea of Japan. But...
- 1964
Adventures of Zatoichi
Adventures of Zatoichi6.71964HD
Blind swordsman/masseuse Zatoichi befriends a young woman looking for her father, a village leader who has disappeared. As he helps her investigate...
- 1957
A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era7.21957HD
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...
- 1964
The Scarlet Camellia
The Scarlet Camellia51964HD
A young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. Because the girl is so outwardly sweet and innocent, the...
- 1944
The Most Beautiful
The Most Beautiful5.61944HD
The stories of several young women who work in a 'precision optical instruments' factory during the second World War. Despite illness, injury, and...
- 1945
Sanshiro Sugata Part Two
Sanshiro Sugata Part Two6.11945HD
In this government-suggested sequel, Sugata again grows as a judo master, and demonstrates his (and by extension, all Japanese) superiority to the...
- 1959
Souls in the Moonlight III
Souls in the Moonlight III6.61959HD
Master swordsman, Tsukue Ryunosuke is confronted by the families of his victims. Will justice be served for the lost innocent lives? The conclusion...
- 1973
Miyamoto Musashi
Miyamoto Musashi7.11973HD
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...
- 1953
Hana no shôgai
Hana no shôgai01953HD
In 1842, in the Umemoku Mansion within Hikone Castle, Naosuke Ii, despite the tumultuous times, was engrossed in the world of tea ceremony. His...
- 1969
Okatsu the Fugitive
Okatsu the Fugitive6.11969HD
Okatsu the Fugitive is the third film in the "Ohyaku/Okatsu" series. Okatsu; a "tomboy" who is good with a sword. Her father has found her a man to...
- 1967
Heiji, the Detective
Heiji, the Detective3.81967HD
Famous for his coin tossing when capturing criminals, an Edo detective, Heiji, launches an investigation into the mysterious murder of his friend...
- 1945
A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo
A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo5.81945HD
In A Tale of Archery, young, timid bowmaster Kazuma (Akitake Kôno) seeks to beat the archery record set by Hoshino Kanzaemon, a mysterious...
- 1954
The Revenge of Yukinojo, Part 2: Dance of Revenge
The Revenge of Yukinojo, Part 2: Dance of Revenge01954HD
The second part of an entertaining historical drama depicting the eventful story of the revenge of an actor with a strange fate, with a variety of...
- 1964
Ken
Ken7.81964HD
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...
- 1947
Snow Trail
Snow Trail7.11947HD
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...