Tetsu Tsuboi

The first half of the movie depicts a man's jealousy of his best friend and the woman he love. The second part depicts a hero who is ready to put the...

Genre: History

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

In 1701, Lord Takuminokami Asano has a feud with Lord Kira and he tries to kill Kira in the corridors of the Shogun's palace. The Shogun sentences...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chōjūrō Kawarasaki

A man takes a job at an asylum with hopes of freeing his imprisoned wife.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Masuo Inoue

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Cast: Bandō Jusaburō III

The doomed love story between a young courtesan and a samurai, in Kyoto.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

First film adaptation of the kabuki play Benten Kozo, about a thief who steals from the rich and gives to the poor...

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Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

A mournful masterpiece by Kinugasa Teinosuke

Genre: History

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

A wealthy family will not allow the military to grow crops on their fields due to their superstitious beliefs about their son's illness.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Uehara

Shinzaemon has been Sukeroku’s enemy ever since Sukeroku fought and defeated gangs from Shinzaemon’s group at a Kabuki theatre over...

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Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Inoue was something of a rarity in the sense, that he was a Shochiku house director who seems to have worked mostly in period films, often with big...

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Cast: Shusuke Agata

Based on the play ”Mabuta no haha” by famed author Shin Hasegawa, this is the first major starring role for Tomisaburo Wakayama. This...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

A bar girl tries to pass her three children, each from a different father, to rural relatives.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nijiko Kiyokawa

A 1930 silent film from director Eichi Koishi, following the adventures of Edo firefighter Sanji.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Bored Hatamoto film #8

Genre: Action

Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

Tanuma Kandayuu is a high class samurai of the house of Nabeshima. He finds a lavish board of Go (a Chinese Board game) at Kinbei's store. He...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

Saheita, the final heir of a once rich and respectable family, can't refuse the many villagers that come to him for favours and money, even though he...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

An onnagata (female impersonator) of a Kabuki troupe avenges his parents' deaths. Remade in 1963 as Yukinojô Henge.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jusaburo Bando

Two cowardly palanquin carriers know the culprit of a murder but are too scared to report it to the police. In the mean time, an innocent man is...

Genre: History

Cast: Reiko Aoi

Period film from 1934.

Genre: History

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

A young vassal is betrayed by his corrupt lord.

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Cast: Yukiko Ogawa

A young samurai rescues his beloved from the clutches of a corrupt priest.

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Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa