Ryōsuke Kagawa
Birthday: 1896-10-10
Place of Birth: Saga, Japan
Biography: No biography available.
Movies
Capone's Younger Brother: Heart and Speculation
Lesser, but still modestly entertaining sequel. Wakayama is wonderfully bastardly here, but has to d...
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20 Duels of Young Shingo - Conclusion
While on his journey through the countryside of Japan, Shingo encounters many people whose lives hav...
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The Life of Matsu the Untamed
Matsugoro is a poor rickshaw driver whose animated spirit and optimistic demeanor make him a favorit...
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Children Hand in Hand
A small-town boy with a learning disability attempts to fit in with his classmates....
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Scarred Yosaburo
The film depicts the scarring of Yosaburo at the hands of yakuza thugs who catch him with mistress o...
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Thus the Divine Wind Blows
Set in the late thirteenth century, this film depicts the defense of southern Japan led by the Kono ...
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Saheiji’s Casebooks: The Purple Hood
The purple hood reveals the embezzlement of public money by officials. A remake of Masahiro Makino's...
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Wild Lion
A gripping historical drama that follows the explosive growth of Katsu Kaishu, the hero of the Meiji...
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Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 3
The adventures of Aoi Shingo continue. Shingo is finally given permission to officially meet his fat...
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The Funeral
When Wabisuke's father-in-law unexpectedly dies, the family goes through a series of random events a...
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Conduct Report on Matashiro: The Devil Princess and Winter Rain
Jidai-geki by Nobuo Nakagawa. Most likely a star vehicle for Kanjuro Arashi...
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Freelance Samurai
One of Japanese folklore's most popular characters is brought to life on the silver screen in this t...
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Jirocho Fuji 2: The Chivalrous
The exciting story of Jirocho and his yakuza gang that controlled the area of the Tokaido during the...
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The Acrobats of Death
Saotome, a sword master and guard of the Shogunate, pursues the mystery of a deadly aerial weapon th...
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Shunjû ittôryû
After being expelled from the Chiba Dojo , Hirate Zoshu , along with his acquaintances Tadaki Ganryu...
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Cantankerous Edo
It's fighting fires and swordsmen with a touch of music in this free-for-all of action and excitemen...
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Lady Sen and Hideyori
From the late 1500's through the founding of the Tokugawa Shogunate many battles were fought as the ...
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Song of Love
In postwar Japan, a new teacher, Miyamoto Yasuko, is discovered by her estranged daughter, Fukuoka S...
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Trouble Over Swords and Women: Sword Light and Shooting Star
film directed by Tai Katô...
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Lord Mito 2: The Nation's Vice Shogun
After settling the matter of shogunal succession, the retired Old Lord of Mito finds himself in a se...
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Love Under the Crucifix
A tea master and his daughter Ogin are both Christians in feudal Japan. Ogin falls in love with a ma...
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The Sword of Doom
Ryunosuke, a gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate rule, ha...
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A Chivalrous Spirit
An all-star cast highlights this Jidai-Geki classic. Set in the samurai era, this is the tale of per...
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Conflagration
Learning of his family's collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the Golde...
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The King
The film takes place at the junction of the two eras of Meiji and Taisho. Sakata Sankichi, an uneduc...
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Samurai Vendetta
Two amiable samurai wind up on opposite sides of the vendetta between Lord Asano's retainers and the...
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Hell Worms
A group of bandits flee to the mountains after killing an evil moneylender. Remake of Hiroshi Inaga...
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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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White-haired Demon
A man dies in an automobile accident and returns as a white-haired demon and seeks revenge on his wi...
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Yaji And Kita's Traveling Diary
A captivating operetta by Masahiro Makino based on Juppensha Ikku's humorous novel "Tōkaidōchū Hizak...
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Kurama Tengu
This is Kanjûrô Arashi's first film with Nikkatsu after his independent production company went bank...
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Taiko's Rising in the World
Taikoki is a legendary biography of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who rose to the office of taikō. And the sto...
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Case of a Young Lord 10: The Mystery of the Spider Lady
Young lord investigates the mysterious death that takes place in the underworld....
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Samurai Banners
Kansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea. He enters th...
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New Tengu from Mount Kurama
The film is set in Kyoto at the end of the Tokugawa period, when there is a fierce clash between the...
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What Price Love?
Set in the middle of the Edo period (1603-1867), this tragic love story takes its cue from a celebra...
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Oda Nobunaga
A classic wartime jidaigeki about the life of the famous samurai and first of the "Great Unifiers" o...
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武蔵と小次郎
As the reputation of Sasaki Kojiro, who traveled through various provinces with his long sword seeki...
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お役者小僧
The phantom thief, known as the "Actor Kid", who was creating a stir in the Daimyo's mansion, especi...
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The Brothers who Protect the Mountain
In the mountainous region of Koshu, Taikahara, there was an intense power struggle between the promi...
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快盗三人吉三
On March 11 in the seventh year of Tenpo (1836), a monk named Bennō, who fell in love with a geisha ...
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Beautiful Tengu
During the tumultuous end of the Tokugawa shogunate, the Tengu Party rose in rebellion in Mito. Frie...
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八州遊侠伝 白鷺三味線
Hatamoto Ooka Gentaro was deeply committed to a future with a beautiful girl named Omachi, a relatio...
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お役者小僧 江戸千両幟
Okazaki Domain samurai Inaba Gotaro accidentally killed a superior while trying to save his beloved ...
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荒木又右衛門
Watanabe Kazuma and Kawai Matagorō from the Bizen Okayama Ikeda clan were close friends, but they in...
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若き日の千葉周作
Chiba Sōsaku, whose childhood name was Otome, was raised by his father Yukiuemon, the successor of t...
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Ejima and Ikushima
This period film is inspired by one of the most notorious scandals to have taken place in Edo-period...
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Mito Kōmon's Rambling Journey: The Sword of the Soaring Dragon
Adaptation of Mito Kōmon....
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Shogun's Holiday
During the reign of Hidetada, the second shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty, the advisor Okubo Hikozaemo...
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大当り男一代
Shinzō, the heir of the prominent Edo lumber dealer Yamashiroya, left home when his stubborn father,...
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のんき侍大暴れ
In the mid-Tokugawa period, a conflict arose over the "Seiryū Himon," a secret document left by the ...
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The Kuroda Affair
This adaptation of a Hideji Hojo novel, about the historical uprising of the Kuroda clan in 1633, is...
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The Skull Coin
“Dokuro sen” (The Skull Coin) is the first film adaptation of the popular novel by Kikuo Sumita. The...
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Ancient Coins
This 1956 adaptation of the novel with the same title puts more focus on the characters and their i...
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Epic Crash
Utaemon Ichikawa plays the role of Hikoshiro Navate, who has a strong sense of justice and opposes p...
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The Revenge of Yukinojo, Part 1: Revenge and Love
The first part of an entertaining historical drama depicting the eventful story of the revenge of an...
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The Grand Master
Shogi, a Japanese form of chess, is a game that requires skill and determination. When poor sandal-m...
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The Kingdom of Jirocho 1
The tale of real-life Yakuza boss Shimizu Jirocho is told from his earliest beginnings as a gambler ...
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The Kingdom of Jirocho 3
The third part of the story about feudal boss Jirocho and his underlings....
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Kojiki Taishô
Gotō Matabei is the most able and fierce samurai of the Kuroda clan. However, he gradually dislikes ...
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Tabiwa Oiroke
Will the assassin take my life or will a beautiful woman take my chastity? Or will a beautiful woman...
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Shinran, Part II
Continuation of the biographical film about the monk Shinran, based on the novel by Eiji Yoshikawa. ...
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Jirocho’s Days of Youth: The Youngest Boss in the Tokai Region
He was married to his lover's butterfly and started a new residence. But good things do not last. In...
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The Revenge of Yukinojo, Part 2: Dance of Revenge
The second part of an entertaining historical drama depicting the eventful story of the revenge of a...
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The Revenge of Yukinojo, Part 3: Sword of Revenge
The final, third part of an entertaining historical drama depicting the eventful story of the reveng...
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Akagaki Genzo
Forty-seven Ronin of the Ako clan are waiting for the right moment to avenge the insult and death of...
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Echo of Love
A man is brutally murdered and his famed shamisen (a three-stringed musical instrument) called the "...
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Aoi Secret Book
A Golden Age drama depicting the exploits of passionate patriot Uotaro Toge in the midst of a myster...
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The Duel at the Satta Pass
A variety of characters, including ninja Noto, a swordsman disguised as a komuso monk, and a young s...
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A contest worth a thousand ryo: In search of a bride
A village samurai with money, power and great masculinity goes to the flourishing city of Edo to hav...
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Lord Mito: All Star Version
In 1691 a terrible fire broke out in Denmacho, Yotsuya, burning down the towns around it, up to the ...
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Ghost Ship Part 1
As Part I opens, Jubei (Denjiro Okochi), the best of sea skippers, is unable to overcome the stormy ...
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Maboroshijō dainiwa shi no senpū
The undercover agent Tsukinosuke Kigurumi successfully escapes with Kirisaku, who possesses the cove...
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Maboroshijō daiichiwa Hida no uzushio
Mt. Norikura's natural fortress, the phantom castle. A white-clad iron mask, offering prayers to the...
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The Gay Masquerade
The film won 1959 Blue Ribbon Awards for best actor Raizo Ichikawa and for best cinematography Kazuo...
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The Coin Thrower Zenigata
The film tells about a young detective Zenigata Heiji who successfully solves a disgusting and unusu...
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Sansho the Bailiff
In medieval Japan, a woman and her children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was exiled y...
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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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Yagyu Chronicles 9: Assassin's Sword
The Yagyu Family have been teaching the Shinkage style of fencing for generations. Now a new fencing...
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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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Onatsu and Seijuro
Based on the popular story of the tragic lovers, Onatsu and Seijuro....
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Secret of Naruto
From the pen of Yoshikawa Eiji comes this exciting story. The Naruto Strait separates Tokushima from...
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Samurai Hawk
1716, Yoshimune becomes the 8th Shogun as high Shogunate officials are attacked. While the governmen...
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The Conspirator
Young lord Saburo Nobuyasu struggles to find comfort in life. His arranged marriage to Tokuhime, dau...
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No Stronger Swords
Featuring some of the finest swordsmen ever to grace the silver screen, this Toei classic tells the ...
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Shimizu Port of Chivalry
An all-star cast highlights this Jidai-Geki classic. Set in the samurai era, this is the tale of per...
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Singing Lovebirds
An umbrella maker with a shopping addiction finds himself in dire straits when his debts force him t...
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A Martial Crowd
As a result of a superstitious belief that twins bring bad luck to the family, newborn twin princess...
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Seven from Edo
When Katsukawa, a low ranking vassal, learns that his greedy superior, Tatewaki, has hatched a plan ...
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Chikamatsu's Love in Osaka
Chubei, the adopted son of an Osaka courier, falls desperately in love with the courtesan Umegawa. T...
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Yagyu Military Art: Jubei's Redemption
In the fifth installment, Yagyu Jubei must prove the innocence of his family who is suspected of con...
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Story of a Beloved Wife
Story of a Beloved Wife is an autobiographical work based on Shindo's first marriage. Jūkichi Uno st...
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The Day the Sun Rose
Shinkichi, a peasant employed as a cloth-dyer, has a dream: in the midst of the civil war which rava...
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Claws of Iron
During the war a man is bitten by a creature which looks like a cross between a bear and an ape in t...
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I Saw a Phantom Fish
A village struggles to survive when the nearby lake becomes barren of fish....
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Swordsman of the Two Sword Style
The story of Japan’s greatest warrior, Miyamoto Musashi, after his historic duel with Sasaki Kojiro ...
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Young Swordsman
This Japanese action-adventure is set in the 17th century when all forms of swordplay were banned. O...
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Miyamoto Musashi: Birth of Two Sword Style
In the third installment of Yoshikawa's novel Musashi, things continue from the 2nd film at the end ...
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Sword for Hire
Soldiers Hayate and Yaheiji secretly escape from their besieged castle. Hayate has left behind his l...
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Hidden Story of the Yagyu Clan
It is brother against brother in this tale of love and betrayal within the famed Yagyu clan. In one ...
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Yagyu Secret Scrolls
In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets wh...
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Jirocho Fuji
Legendary yakuza Shimizu Jirocho and his 28 henchmen travel the unruly path from a 'Fire Festival' i...
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Banquet Under the Midnight Sun
In old Edo, Kakunojo (Chiezo), a dandy about town, falls in love with Oichi (Isuzu Yamada), whose me...
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The Elegant Swordsman
This film tells the story of a ronin's search for his parents, but primarily is a group portrait of ...
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Ishimatsu from the Forest
The film recounts the tragedy of a young outlaw. Considered a lost film....
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Festival Across the Sea
There is an inn named Asano Ya in the port town, and a beautiful woman works there. Every year, duri...
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Bushido: The Cruel Code of the Samurai
After a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he recounts his gruesome family history which saw gen...
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Daredevil in the Castle
During the raging war between the Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans, the swordsman Mohei (whose family has...
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Miyamoto Musashi: Showdown at Hannyazaka Heights
The remake of Yoshikawa's novel continues with the second installment in which Takezo, soon to be Mi...
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13 Assassins
A sadistic Daimyo (feudal lord) rapes a woman and murders both her and her husband, but even when on...
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Miyamoto Musashi IV: The Duel at Ichijo-ji Temple
In the fourth installment, Musashi's potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of the st...
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Tales of Young Genji Kuro 3
In the third, and final chapter of this epic tale, handsome swordsman Genji helps a vulnerable princ...
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Kojiro
Sasaki Kojiro tells the story of the genius who staked his love, glory, and life on a duel with the ...
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Snake Princess: Oshima and Sentaro
Young Sentaro struggles to avenge the murder of his younger sister Osuga and their father....
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The Yagyu Military Art: Yagyu List
When the country is in peril, Lord Yagyu Tajima summons his son Yagyu Jubei to retrieve the mystical...
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Case of Umon: The Nanbanzame Murders
The serial killing of a samurai each night by strangulation at various temples confounds investigato...
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Red Peony Gambler: Second Generation Ceremony
The industrual revolution comes to Japan with the introduction of the railroad system. This led to c...
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Code Between Brothers
Famous enka singer Saburo Kitajima stars as Katsuji, a traveling craps artist who finds great camara...
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Souls in the Moonlight II
This is the second installment of the trilogy based on Japan’s greatest novel “The Great Bodhisattva...
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Sword Devil
Hanpei is a gentle young samurai that loves flowers. One day, he witnesses an old man's quick draw o...
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Shinsengumi Chronicles
As winds of change sweep Japan, an honest man joins the Shinsengumi out of admiration for its leader...
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Capricious Young Man
An adventurer and two accomplices unexpectedly invite themselves to a sword tournament and are offer...
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 8: Sword of Villainy
Nemuri Kyoshiro discovers a conspiracy centering around a band of disgruntled samurai wanting to ave...
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Nichiren and the Great Mongol Invasion
During the 1200's, legendary Buddhist monk Nichiren returns from his studies to lead Japan out of mo...
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Blood Spilled at Takadanobaba
The tale of Nakayama Yasubei’s duel is famous, even if he in reality probably did not cut down 18 op...
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Merciless Blade
The first film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass....
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Code Between Brothers 5
Saburo Kitajima, one of Japan’s most famous Enka singers, returns in the fifth of the Kyodai Jingi s...
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The Master Spearman
This subversive period film features a hotheaded young samurai, Kurodo, who threatens to commit hara...
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Festival of Swordsmen
During the middle of the Kanei Period (1624-1644) Japan was in the early stages of its most peaceful...
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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 Fort Ezo
1864. Samurai Shinbei is sent in a secret mission to Ezo, in the North of Japan, to stop riots of vi...
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Samurai from Nowhere
Misawa Ihei (Nagato) is traveling with his wife Tae (Iwashita Shima) who abhors the practice of swor...
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The Magoichi Saga
Lord Oda Nobunaga gains control of nearly all of Japan and tries to enlist the aid of Magoichi and h...
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Chushingura
The vassals of the Asano clan, who surrendered the castle & became wanderers, deceive the enemy and ...
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Vengeance at Iga
Famed swordsman Araki Mataemon must face his best friend as they are forced to take opposite sides i...
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Signal Fires of Shanghai
During the Taiping Rebellion of the mid-19th century, anti-Qing (Manchu) Chinese forces led by Taipi...
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The Wandering Gambler
Date Mosui, a young samurai, one day gets a scolding from a nameless ronin that sets him thinking ab...
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Castle of Flames
In 17th century Japan, Young Lord Masato returns after years abroad to find everything changed: his ...
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Initiation of the Two-Sword Style
Ito Daisuke's wartime retelling of the Miyamoto Musashi story....
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The Red Shadow
Fifteen years after Ishida Mitsunari lost in the battle of Sekigahara, Tokugawa Ieyasu foresees his ...
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Tange Sazen and the Princess
Tange Sazen interferes with an evil plot against the Iga Yagyu family....
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Zoku Shimizu Minato
An actor, hit on the head, dreams that he has become legendary one-eyed gangster Mori no Ishimatsu....
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Date Masamune the One-Eyed Dragon
The life, adventures and exploits of warlord Date Masamune the One-eyed Dragon: his early youth as a...
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Ukyunosuke on Patrol
This is one of the most powerfully effective ninja films that dispenses with the silly magic of earl...
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The Invisible Swordsman
A cowardly boy fencer becomes invisible and matchless through a magic potion....
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Chûshingura
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the c...
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Echo in the Mountains
A man is brutally murdered and his famed shamisen (a three-stringed musical instrument) called the "...
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Keepers of Order
Chuji and his family become the primary target of gangs in Nikko headed by Hasshu marshal Nakayama a...
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Road of Chivalry
While on the road, famed Yakuza Boss Jirocho is falsely accused of starting a peasant's uprising and...
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The Wiser Age
Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner....
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Ninja's Weapon
During a time of war, Lord Ogata is betrayed by two of his closest vassals and killed by his enemy, ...
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Tragedy of the Coolie Samurai
Gonza was a handsome young laborer, a footman and spear-carrier, working hard for his meager wage. A...
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Ugetsu
In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers...
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The Lightning Sword
Shinjiro is a rambler, a single sword carrying lone wolf with only his fighting skills to protect hi...
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Cases of Hanshichi
Detective Hanshichi (Kataoka Chiezo) solves 3 mysterious murder cases. Great story and an impressive...
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Female Ninja Magic
In Osaka during the Edo period, ruler Sanada Yukimura was in losing position, fearing Toyotomi's blo...
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Mysteries of Edo
A princess in disguise, Oshichi launches an investigation to reveal the truth about the disappearanc...
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Showdown of Men 4: Tetsu, the White Tiger
Tetsu, is a honourable and noble yakuza caught in a conflict between rival clans, and obligations ea...
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Mark of Blood
Three young yakuza, Fujitaro, Matsugoro and Kanjuro, travel the country fighting evil....
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The Flower and the Dragon
A story of manly life and the beauty of conjugal love. A story about a man and a woman establishing ...
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Zatoichi's Flashing Sword
Blind masseur Zatoichi is nursed back to health by a young woman after he is shot by a gang member. ...
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Lord Tokugawa Ieyasu
In turbulent 16th-century Japan, the leaders of a minor fief have their child taken from them as a p...
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The South Sea Wolf
Namie's in trouble again, getting snatched by an evil gang in search of treasure. Kirimaru sets out ...
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Sugata Sanshiro
The story of Sanshiro Sugata, a young man who wants to learn the new art of judo. A wise teacher rev...
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Taira Clan Saga
Japan, 1137. The Taira family, a samurai clan, becomes involved in the disputes between Emperor Toba...
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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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A Samurai Never Tells a Lie
The shogun's vassal Harima Aoyama and a chamber maid are in love with each other, but they cannot be...
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On This Earth
Ichiro’s family used to be a large landowner, but now he is living in poverty with his mother. His m...
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Magistrate of Dice
Based on the exploits of real-life historical character Magistrate Toyama no Kinsan, this exciting t...
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The Magical Warrior
Rikitaro and Osayo are popular entertainers who throw knives. They are sweethearts. At one day They ...
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Sword of Wind and Clouds
This gripping historical drama depicts a clash of swordsmen, secret government spies, mysterious thi...
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Revenge for His Lover
Kamio a mistreated samurai clerk of Edo Castle and ronin (“Sir Quarrel”) Ibara, take up a vendetta a...
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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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Isshin Tasuke: Edoites Festival
A costumed film featuring the famous hero of Japanese history, Isshin Tasuke, arranged in the form o...
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Pirates Magistrate
As it turns out, the evil hand of drugs has reached the inner palace of the Shogunate. It was though...
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Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi
Nezumi Kozō is the nickname of Nakamura Jirokichi, a Japanese thief and folk hero who lived in Edo d...
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Last Days of Edo
It is a historical drama that follows Katsu Kaishu's efforts to surrender Edo Castle bloodlessly in ...
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Kill!
A pair of down-on-their-luck swordsmen arrive in a dusty, windblown town, where they become involved...
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Japan's Longest Day
Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and th...
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The Greatest Man in the World
In the midst of the depression, two ronin rack their brains to come up with a dishonest scheme. Taki...
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Bored Hatamoto: Island of No Return
Part of the Bored Hatamoto series. The most popular samurai in Edo, Saotome Mondonosuke, known to mo...
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Jiraiya
Based on the old tale of Jiraiya, this 1937 version is essentially a revenge story with fantastic vi...
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Edo Purebreed
Action and adventure abound in this story of friendship between two rival firefighters, Kichigoro an...
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Ninja Assassins
Saotome Mondonosuke pursues the culprit who placed a malicious curse upon Shogun Tsunekichi....
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The Shogun and the Fishmonger
Fishmonger Tasuke and Shogun Iemitsu swap their identities in pretence for the protection of Iemitsu...
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Straw hat of Itako
A film about young wandering Yakuza. Yukio Hashi's first film role....
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Nage Utasamon niban tegara: Tsuri tenjô no semushi otoko
Second in the Nage Utasamon series...
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Return of the One-Armed Swordsman
The legendary one-eyed one-armed swordsman Tange Sazen is back to aid a Magistrate in his efforts to...
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53 Stages of the Road
An Edo appointed official Baba must ensure the safe delivery of shogunate funds to Kyoto....
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Big Time Gambling Boss
Tokyo, 1934. The boss of the clan that controls gambling agonizes and some of his followers propose ...
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Six Men Mustered in Great Edo
A parody based on Kabuki plays about thieves led by the famous Soshun Kochiyama....
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The Shogun Assassins
This is a film about a real person. Sanada Yukimura fought a war against Tokugawa Ieyasu....
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Miyamoto Musashi - Dai-ichi-bu: Kusawake no hitobito - Dai-ni-bu: Eitatsu no mon
Second part of director Hiroshi Inagaki's 1940 adaptation of the story of Musashi Miyamoto....
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近藤勇 池田屋騒動
Kyoto in the third year of Bunkyu. --Serizawa Kamo, the head of the Shinsengumi, and the group aroun...
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Maboroshijō kaiketsu-hen kizoji no gaika
Tsukinosuke narrowly misses capturing the lord of the phantom castle by a hair's breadth. The mounta...
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Jirocho' s Days of Youth: Whirlwind on the Tokaido
Adventures of famous yakuza boss Jirocho and his disciples who settle in Kofu....
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Vampire Monster Mansion
A sequel to "Vampire Dead Beauty Carving", featuring the same members from the previous work, includ...
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Miyamoto Musashi - Battle at Han'nya Hill
Miyamoto Musashi is challenged by a series of opponents in this follow up to Miyamoto Musashi's Kong...
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Miyamoto Musashi: Dai-san-bu - Kenshin ichiro
First part of director Hiroshi Inagaki's 1940 adaptation of the story of Musashi Miyamoto....
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Shinobi No Mono 6: The Last Iga Spy
[Period covered: 1637-1651] This is one of the most complicated plots of any of the Shinobi no Mono ...
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Shirai Gonpachi
The film adaptation of the famous tragic love story of the young samurai Shirai Gonpachi and the bea...
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Kunisada Chûji: Tabi to kokyô no maki
The first in a trilogy of Kunisada Chuji films by Hiroshi Inagaki....
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Kunisada Chuji: Ruro ruten no maki
The second in a trilogy of Kunisada Chuji films by Hiroshi Inagaki....
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Kunisada Chuji: Hareru Akagi no maki
The third in a trilogy of Kunisada Chuji films by Hiroshi Inagaki....
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