Utaemon Ichikawa Movies

A film about the rivalry and friendship between firefighter Chоji and sumo wrestler Sokichi Fudoyama.

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...

A story about Ômura Masujirô

When a group of men from the Hanya clan search his town for a missing geisha, a brave ronin decides to help her and a drunken calligrapher. In doing...

Adaptation of the Riichi Yokomitsu novel.

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...

A samurai thief fights a gang of ghostly thieves using scorpions for treasure in the unexplored Shinano region, which is guarded by a descendant of...

The Color Print of Edo is a 1939 black and white Japanese silent film with benshi accompaniment directed by Kazuo Mori. It is a cheerful period...

Ryujin Misaki, located at the edge of the Genkai Sea, is known as an isolation ward for leprosy patients. When Saotome, a sword master and guard of...

Magistrate Ooka and a samurai fight against evil forces.

Bored Hatamoto film #8

An all-star cast highlights this Jidai-Geki classic. Set in the samurai era, this is the tale of period Yakuza. One of the real classics in this...

Adaptation of the novel by Kan Shimozawa.

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...

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

Bored Hatamoto movie #15

Swordfighting instructor Danpei works at a local theater in Tokyo, instructing the actors how to fight realistically.