Utaemon Ichikawa Movies

Part of the Bored Hatamoto series. The most popular samurai in Edo, Saotome Mondonosuke, known to most as the "Bored Hatamoto" is the only one who...

1945 Japanese movie

While the story of the Ako Clan's vendetta has been told countless times, never before has there been an array of major motion picture stars to bring...

A swordsman must foil a minister's sinister plan to assassinate the shogun.

Sugimoto Gonkuro is travelling along from Tosa to Edo. On his journey he will meet both good and bad people.

Period drama directed by Yasushi Sasaki.

Film about Ghost-Cat.

This is the only surviving "Mito Komon Manyu-ki" film. This release also known as Adrift Tour Memoir is an 80-minute compilation of the first and...

1962 Japanese movie

The success story of a group of ronin who fights against traffickers during the Edo Tenpo period.

This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their...

This 1956 adaptation of the novel with the same title puts more focus on the characters and their interactions than the previous version.

1950 Japanese movie

Maeda Tsunanori, the lord of Kaga Domain, had two young princes - Katsumaru, the son of his legitimate wife, who died, and Yasunosuke, the son of his...

During the reign of 5th Shogun Tokugawa Tsuneyoshi a troupe of Chinese acrobats travel to Japan to help celebrate the building of the Yushima Shrine....

At a tavern in Shimoda, Ronin Tadakazu Yamakawa saved a samurai girl named Mino from the clutches of the Benten family. When Mino's father, Kyohei...