Utaemon Ichikawa Movies

A story of revenge between two samurai families on the Igagoe Road. Araki Mataemon born in the province of Iga. He studied the art of the sword under...

Adaptation of the novel by Kan Shimozawa.

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....

A young lord lives against the will of his father Lord Tokugawa.

Bored Hatamoto film #19

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

Bored Hatamoto film #16.

1716, Yoshimune becomes the 8th Shogun as high Shogunate officials are attacked. While the government tries to keep these incidents under wraps, they...

This is the story of Gonpachi, a ronin who falls in love with the daughter of a man he had killed many years before.

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...

Period drama directed by Yasushi Sasaki.

A story about Ômura Masujirô

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...

Bored Hatamoto movie #14

Bored Hatamoto film #4

1962 Japanese movie

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...