Stars: Chieko Naniwa, Saburô Date, Yukio Horikita, Tokio Oki, Jun Fujikawa
11th century Japan. Governor Tyro is deposed and exiled for his opposition to feudal corruption. His wife Tamaki (Tanaka), son Zushio (Hanayagi) and daughter Anjou (Kagawa) are going to join him in exile...
Stars: Chieko Naniwa, Saburô Date, Tokio Oki, Tadashi Iwata, Jun Fujikawa
17th century Japan. Osan is married to a wealthy scroll maker. When Osan is wrongly accused of having an affair with their best worker, Mohi, the two flee to the city. He orders his men to find them and separate them...
Stars: Ichirô Nakatani, Asao Uchida, Yoshi Katô, Saburô Date, Ryûtarô Gomi
A samurai who adheres to noble principles out of simplicity, bitterly realizes that his loyalty to samurai moral values has made him an outcast among his fellow soldiers and, as a result, extremely vulnerable.
Stars: Eitarô Ozawa, Kuniko Miyake, Koreya Senda, Shinobu Araki, Sadako Sawamura
The film portrays a woman's efforts to achieve equality in Japan in the 1880s. "Iko Hirayama" went to Tokyo and helped the Liberal Party, and just when the party was declared dissolved by the government, she fell in love with its leader, "Kentaro Umoi". The two were sent to prison and...
Stars: Takashi Shimura, Takamaru Sasaki, Saburô Date, Mayumi Ogawa, Shinobu Araki
On the night of the Obon Summer Festival, Hagiwara Shinzaburo meets a beautiful courtesan named Otsuyu. Not knowing that he is a ghost, he falls in love with her...
Stars: Isao Kimura, Saburô Date, Tokio Oki, Yûsaku Terashima, Jun Fujikawa
Satoko is a mistress by trade, or fate: when her master, the silkscreen artist of the Kohoan Temple in Kyoto, dies, she is given to the temples lascivious head priest Kikuchi.
Stars: Gen Shimizu, Isao Yamagata, Saburô Date, Yukio Horikita, Tokio Oki
In 1159, one of the ladies of the court disguised herself as a lord's wife and left the city with a loyal samurai. After this story, the samurai asked the lord to allow him to marry the woman he saved. The lord gave him this permission, but the samurai realized that the woman had married before him and...
Stars: Tomisaburô Wakayama, Saburô Date, Tokio Oki, Tadashi Iwata, Yûji Hamada
The story is about a ninja named Goemon who, after leaving his ninja group, tries to kill an army commander named Oda Nobunaga.
Stars: Yoshio Inaba, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Yukio Horikita, Tokio Oki, Tadashi Iwata
A Buddhist priest becomes also a magician, dedicating himself to the protection of life wherever its needed, whereupon he finds himself in direct service of the Queen. Political intrigue tightens around him as it is increasingly assumed that he harbors ulterior motives. Set in Japans Nara Era (710 - 794 A.D.), the story is loosely based on Mikado (Empress) Koken-Sho... Read all
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Minoru Chiaki, Yoshi Katô, Chishû Ryû, Kuniko Miyake
A tea master and his daughter Ugin are both Christians in feudal Japan. Ogin falls in love with a married feudal prince who shares his opinion. The situation worsens when the Shogun bans Christianity.
Stars: Tomisaburô Wakayama, Saburô Date, Yukio Horikita, Tokio Oki, Tadashi Iwata
The story of Shinsengumi Chronicles begins where very big changes are taking place in Japan. Meanwhile, an honest man joins the Shinsengumi because he wants to live and die as a samurai. But when this man joins the mentioned group, unpredictable events happen and...
Stars: Saburô Date, Yûji Hamada, Jun Fujikawa, Sumao Ishihara, Kazuo Ôbayashi
It follows the life story of Ryunosuke Tsuke, an unscrupulous samurai master of swordsmanship in an unusual way...
Stars: Gen Shimizu, Saburô Date, Tokio Oki, Yûsaku Terashima, Yûji Hamada
Tange Tenzin and Nakayama Yasubei are honorable samurai living in an age of corrupt officials and treacherous clans. But after finding themselves in opposing tribes, they are caught in a strange love...
Stars: Saburô Date, Ryûtarô Gomi, Shinobu Araki, Kazue Tamaki, Hajime Koshikawa
The story of local criminal youkai who intervene to avenge a murder and thwart the plans of corrupt officials.
Stars: Tokio Oki, Kanae Kobayashi, Katsuhiko Kobayashi, Shinobu Araki, Eigorô Onoe
Ryunosuke has placed himself in the role of a beggar monk and...
Stars: Kichijirô Ueda, Saburô Date, Jun Fujikawa, Shinobu Araki, Kanji Koshiba
Jewel thieves become interested in the invisibility formula invented by Professor Nakazato and want to use his invention to obtain a diamond necklace called Tears of Love...
