Mako Movies

Thomas Hoshino is a tough Japanese detective, who lost his partner by a deadly Yakuza killer Jaho. He tracks down the killer and his master to Los...

A wanderer returns home only to find political turmoil, disease and romantic difficulties.

Sgt. O'Farrell an Army soldier on an island in the South Pacific during World War II is trying to bring the two basics of life to his fellow...

This film describes Navy Commander Jeremiah Denton's 7-and-a-half years as a prisoner of war. Held in numerous, brutal POW camps, he faced...

Henry Sugimoto’s translated memoirs, brought to life by Academy Award-nominated actor Mako, reveal the artist’s own journey through his...

Blue Racer finds out that the Japanese chicken in the local farm has laid an egg. Blue Racer wastes no time getting it. Unfortunatly, the egg's...

After the superstardom and early death of Bruce Lee, 20th Century Fox decided to cobble together a couple of theatrical feature films from this...

Thrown overboard while conducting an environmental investigation, Humphrey Van Weyden is as good as dead. But before he can meet his watery doom, he...

When the police start a crackdown on Yakuza activities, a killer starts killing the cops forcing a martial-arts officer to fight back.

In 1853 Japan, the story of Kayama, a samurai, and Manjiro, a fisherman, sets the backdrop of the Westernization of Japan. The lives of both men are...

A small boy is sent away from his village. He is to be trained as a samurai warrior and return to fight the evil shapeshifter, Aku, who has wreaked...

One of Tanaka's underlings has stolen a rare statuette that he had planned to use as a peace offering between the local Yakusa and Chinese Tong. He...

This important tribute to the issei (first generation Japanese Americans) integrates the stories of three people who describe a collective history...

A stressed-out, big-city cop seeks refuge in Hawaii, only to become embroiled in a serial murder case that appears to be identical to his last case...

SFPD Detective Lieutenant Michael Stone is partnered with a young college-educated Inspector, Steven Keller, as they investigate a girl found dead in...

From silent film star Sessue Hayakawa to Harold and Kumar Go to Whitecastle, the Slanted Screen examines the portrayal Asian men in film and...

A successful art dealer is sought out by law enforcement after terrorists take some scientists hostage. Finding no possible solution, a law...

A kitchen maid and a nightingale help save an emperor with the power of song and friendship.

An old, bigoted Japanese-American traditionalist is unable to reconcile the needs of his wife and two daughters with his own conservative view on...

The close bond between two elderly sisters is threatened when one of them begins to have romantic feelings for a local mechanic.