Movies: Utaemon Ichikawa

Featuring some of the finest swordsmen ever to grace the silver screen, this Toei classic tells the story of a battle between the evil sword style called ”Otonashi” (The Silent Form) and the proper way of swordsmanship as promoted by such historical ...

Jidaigeki film from 1960...

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

Film about Ghost-Cat....

Set in the late thirteenth century, this film depicts the defense of southern Japan led by the Kono clan against the Mongol invasion in 1281....

Period drama directed by Yasushi Sasaki....

Tetsunosuke, an eccentric doctor and an owner of a fencing school, takes aim against corrupt authorities....

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A story about Ômura Masujirô...

1945 Japanese movie...

Around the Genroku era, there was a man named Saotome Shusui-no-Suke, nephew to the senior councilor Matsudaira Sakon Shogen. He was commonly known as the Bored Samurai of the Hatamoto rank. Just as he was engulfed in boredom, Tokugawa Jo-Kaibo, clai...

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 Heike clan....

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 can save the shogunate from the dastardly plot to take over the country....

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

Utaemon Ichikawa plays the role of Hikoshiro Navate, who has a strong sense of justice and opposes power and tyranny with his will and spirit....

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A story about a spear master’s spiritual and martial discipline....

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At the transformed Fumaden (Demon Subduing) Temple, with the dynamic efforts of Sukesan and Kakusan, and the appearance of the heroic woman Oshin, Lord Kōmon's ingenious strategy swiftly overcomes the wicked bandits in this exhilarating and unrivaled...

Magistrate Ooka and a samurai fight against evil forces....