Utaemon Ichikawa Movies

During the ultra-violent era of the downfall of the Tokugawa Shogunate one man rose above the rest with his ideas of how to overthrow the corrupt...

A swordsman must foil a minister's sinister plan to assassinate the shogun.

The success story of a group of ronin who fights against traffickers during the Edo Tenpo period.

At a tavern in Shimoda, Ronin Tadakazu Yamakawa saved a samurai girl named Mino from the clutches of the Benten family. When Mino's father, Kyohei...

Jida-geki by Santaro Marune.

Master swordsman and loya 'Hatamoto' (direct vassal to the Shogun), Saotome Mondonosuke, is sent to investigate an intrigue centering on the Date...

When a group of men from the Hanya clan search his town for a missing geisha, a brave ronin decides to help her and a drunken calligrapher. In doing...

Bored Hatamoto movie #14

Period drama directed by Yasushi Sasaki.

Adaptation of the Riichi Yokomitsu novel.

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...

Film about Ghost-Cat.

Bored Hatamoto movie #29