Utaemon Ichikawa Movies

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

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.

Bored Hatamoto movie #29

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...

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

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

Magistrate Ooka and a samurai fight against evil forces.

Adaptation of the Riichi Yokomitsu novel.

Bored Hatamoto movie #14

1962 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...

Directed by Daisuke Ito.

Master swordsman and loyal vassal Saotome Mondonosuke goes on a mission to find a missing princess.

At the transformed Fumaden (Demon Subduing) Temple, with the dynamic efforts of Sukesan and Kakusan, and the appearance of the heroic woman Oshin,...