Kōtarō Bandō
Birthday: 1911-05-04
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
Biography: No biography available.
Movies
Cases of An Actor in Disguise: Mansion of beauties
The first work in the series "Cases of An Actor in Disguise" starring Kokichi Takada, based on the o...
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Gate of Hell
Japan, 1159. Moritō, a brave samurai, performs a heroic act by rescuing the lovely Kesa during a vio...
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Diary of Good Conduct Matashiro: A beautiful bat
Rampant ronin Matashiro Sasai, finds himself embroiled in serious unrest after he rescues a geisha w...
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Small Rats of the Edo Town
The action of this historical drama takes place against the background of poverty and hunger in the ...
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Utamaro and His Five Women
Utamaro, a great artist, lives to create portraits of beautiful women, and the brothels of Tokyo pro...
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Ghost of the 53 Stations
Kota and Kosuke, from the Hikyaku-ya shop in Edo, went to Kyoto. Contrary to their carefree appearan...
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Kisaragi Sword
The story concerns the efforts of seven master swordsman who join together to protect the new inexpe...
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Mito Kōmon's Rambling Journey: The Sword of the Soaring Dragon
Adaptation of Mito Kōmon....
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Ghost-Cat of Arima Palace
Okoyo, the mistress of Lord Arima, fears that she is being replaced by a younger woman named Otaki. ...
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Wakanohana: The Story of the Devil of the Dohyō
A film about sumo wrestler Wakanohana Kanji I. He was nicknamed "Devil of the dohyo" due to his exce...
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The Ghost Cat of Ouma Crossing
A kabuki actress is murdered. Her pet cat laps its mistress's blood and becomes a demon possessed by...
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Decisive Battle at Kuroda Castle
After the massacre of Christians at Shimabara, followers of Amakusa Shiro band together in a plot to...
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Terrible Ghost Cat of Okazaki
The Lord of Okazaki is killed by his brother-in-law. Although the Lord's widow bears a child, she is...
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Elegy of a Geisha
1959 Shintoho adaptation of Kyoka Izumi's novel "A Woman's Pedigree"....
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The Phantom Goblin
An injured Edo official is rescued by a vassal whose appearance is exactly like himself, and swears ...
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Kingorô no omawari-san
Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Wakai omawari-san" by Shiro Sone....
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Kagebôshi: The Shadow Avenger
For the poor, Edo is Hell on Earth, starving under the rule of Tanuma Okitsugi, corrupt councilor to...
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Military Song of the Morning Mist
At the beginning of the Meiji era, three brothers of a samurai family each stand up to the times....
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The Pacific War and the International Military Tribunal
In 1941, overpopulated Japan faces an economic boycott and its armed forces push further to the sout...
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The Tale of Oiwa's Ghost
A samurai plots to reclaim his estranged wife after she leaves him over a murder scandal. When her s...
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The Shogun’s Guard: Valor in Turbulence
The stormy tale of the Shinsengumi is told from its birth by master filmmaker Sasaki Yasushi, with a...
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Hibari’s Favorite 2
Young girl Kichiza searches for her missing brother and the person responsible for the death of her ...
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Sazen Tange: The Monkey Pot
A Japanese drama featuring the one-eyed, one-armed swordsman...
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Duel at Sundown
A remake of High Noon (1952) as a Japanese jidai-geki sword-fighting movie....
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Ghost of Saga Mansion
A woman loses her son through an evil conspiracy and commits suicide. Shortly afterwards a ghost cat...
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The Tale of Genji
Genji, the illegitimate offspring of a Japanese potentate, goes by the philosophy of "love 'em and l...
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Ship of Outlaws
Set in the Edo-era, a smuggling vessel runs into conflict between the Matsumae clan and the Ainu in ...
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The Opium War
The Opium War is a 1943 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Masahiro Makino. "Ahen senso" in ...
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The Palanquin Carrier Magistrate
Two cowardly palanquin carriers know the culprit of a murder but are too scared to report it to the ...
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The Loyal 47 Ronin
This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura s...
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Little Tengu
A story about a tomboy, Otoshi, who is good at singing, dancing and fencing....
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Hanjiro of Kusama: Bird of Passage
A kindhearted wandering gambler named Hajiro gets involved in a crisis of a village as he passes thr...
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Case of a Young Lord 8
A family is brutally murdered in their own home and the official government's sake dealer is framed ...
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Dedication of the Great Buddha
The film depicts how the work to build the Great Buddha overcame a number of obstacles as proponents...
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Road Warriors
A dashing edition with fights , love, and laughter, in which the sorrows and joys of the guiltless w...
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Osaka Woman
When Ochika, from a rich family, marries Danpei, a poor shamisen player, she devotes herself complet...
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Vanished Glory
In the first group of Yoshitake Ichi and Taketatsu Sada Preparatory Training, the team leader was So...
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Traveling of Two Young Men
At the crowded Komatsuya in Kawadome, travellers are holding a secret art contest to relieve boredom...
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上州鴉
This happened at a post station on the Shinshu road. Takizo Hoshigoe, a wanted man who has been miss...
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Holiday in Japan
Japanese comedy film released to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Shintoho's founding....
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Queen of the Treasure Island
At a tavern in Shimoda, Ronin Tadakazu Yamakawa saved a samurai girl named Mino from the clutches of...
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Sakura Ondo
Sakura Ondo was a sound adaptation based on a popular 1934 song, produced at the Shochiku Kamata Stu...
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