Kinya Ichikawa

The Tale of Zatoichi

The adventures of a blind, gambling masseur and master swordsman. Zatoichi targets a yakuza-controlled village,...

Satan's Sword

The Dai-bosatsu toge trilogy is based on Kaizan Nakazato's unfinished long series of novels (41 books, written...

The Blind Menace

This is the story of a blind masseur who tricks people, steals, and kills; he is the anti-Zatoichi.

Buddha

An Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six years in search o...

Shinobi no Mono 2: Vengeance

[Period covered: 1582-1594]. As the film opens, the warlod Nobunaga Oda rides to Iga Ayanokuni shrine. He is as...

Nichiren and the Great Mongol Invasion

During the 1200's, legendary Buddhist monk Nichiren returns from his studies to lead Japan out of moral crisis...

Bonchi

Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overb...

The Gay Masquerade

The film won 1959 Blue Ribbon Awards for best actor Raizo Ichikawa and for best cinematography Kazuo Miyagawa....

お嬢さん三度笠

Long Swords of the Loyal Forty-Seven

Sleepy Eyes of Death 2: Sword of Adventure

Wandering samurai Nemuri Kyoshiro (Raizô Ichikawa) finds a bulls-eye on his back after befriending the shogunat...

Tabiwa Oiroke

Will the assassin take my life or will a beautiful woman take my chastity? Or will a beautiful woman take your...

流轉

In the eleventh year of the Tenpō era, the Kawarazaki-za theater in Edo buzzed with excitement for a new produc...

Seven Miles to Nakayama

When a corrupt magistrate rapes Oshima, Masa (Raizō Ichikawa) avenges her by killing the officer, becoming ther...

Ghost Story: Depth of Kasane

Follows the murder of a money-lending masseur by an impoverished samurai. The slain masseur's daughter will als...

Bara daimyo

風来物語任侠篇

Peony on the Skin

晴小袖

1961 Japanese movie

Sabakareru Echizen no kami

1962 Japanese movie

Kojiro's Turning Swallow Cut

The story of Sasaki Kojiro, a young swordsman, and his quest to train under master Seigen and develop his own s...

Tenten Musume

Based on the comic by Shosuke Kurakane. Shown in two parts.

Mito Komon’s Journey to Ezo

Daiei Film Company's three biggest stars shine in this exciting story about Vice-Shogun Mito Komon's journey to...

Hell's Assassin

1962 Japanese movie

Shirai Gonpachi

The film adaptation of the famous tragic love story of the young samurai Shirai Gonpachi and the beautiful cour...

170 Leagues to Edo

Ojo-kichiza

Sōran wataridori

1962 Japanese movie

Yûrei koban

Yutaro's Secret Story

Yutaro Kodan, born under a cloud because his aristocrat father died opposing the shogunate, stumbles onto a tre...

Jirocho Fuji

Legendary yakuza Shimizu Jirocho and his 28 henchmen travel the unruly path from a 'Fire Festival' in Akiba to...

The Phantom Samurai

Kumoemon to sono tsuma

1962 Japanese movie

Bronze Magician

A story loosely based on the affair between Empress Kōken-Shōtoku and the monk Dōkyō, set during the Nara perio...

Obsessive Snake

Utaji heard that her ex-lover Seijirou would get married to Ochiyo a daughter of Ise-ya. She murdered Ochiyo an...

Blue Snake Bath

Last part of the Snake Woman trilogy.