Ryōsuke Kagawa Movies

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

Gotō Matabei is the most able and fierce samurai of the Kuroda clan. However, he gradually dislikes the ruthless personality of Kuroda Nagamasa...

Kamio a mistreated samurai clerk of Edo Castle and ronin (“Sir Quarrel”) Ibara, take up a vendetta against 17 wicked castle men.

A kabuki actress is murdered. Her pet cat laps its mistress's blood and becomes a demon possessed by the vengeful murder victim.

film directed by Tai Katô

A village struggles to survive when the nearby lake becomes barren of fish.

Date Mosui, a young samurai, one day gets a scolding from a nameless ronin that sets him thinking about what life is all about and his ways of...

There is an inn named Asano Ya in the port town, and a beautiful woman works there. Every year, during a local festival, travelling artists and...

In 17th century Japan, Young Lord Masato returns after years abroad to find everything changed: his peace-loving father has died in what he soon...

A small-town boy with a learning disability attempts to fit in with his classmates.

A princess in disguise, Oshichi launches an investigation to reveal the truth about the disappearance of young women in Edo.

Ito Daisuke's wartime retelling of the Miyamoto Musashi story.

In old Edo, Kakunojo (Chiezo), a dandy about town, falls in love with Oichi (Isuzu Yamada), whose merchant family is much beyond Kakunojo's status....

Early film directed by Eiichi Kudô.

This is Kanjûrô Arashi's first film with Nikkatsu after his independent production company went bankrupt (many of these independent...

Early Japanese three-part samurai / fantasy serial.