Yoshiko Yashioji

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Kōkichi Takada

The story concerns the efforts of seven master swordsman who join together to protect the new inexperienced Shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune from the evil...

Genre: Action

Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

Kondo Isami, the “Devil” commander of the Shinsengumi was one of Japan’s greatest national heroes and a peerless swordsman who...

Genre: History

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

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Cast: Koinosuke Onoe

Playhouse employees Okimi and Otoshi become involved in an undercover officer’s investigation of a gang when they accidentally walk in on a...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Hibari Misora

The rich punk Junya has only one thing in mind: to race with the police on his motorcycle. That makes him unpopular, not only with the police, even...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jiro Shirai

This adaptation of a Hideji Hojo novel, about the historical uprising of the Kuroda clan in 1633, is told through the eyes of retainer, Daizen. As...

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Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

1954 Japanese movie

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Cast: Ryūnosuke Tsukigata

Light-hearted samurai comedy. The second son of a feudal lord runs away from an arranged marriage. He saves the life of a princess whom he gets to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hashizo Okawa

Young lord investigates the mysterious death that takes place in the underworld.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hashizo Okawa

9th film in the series about Lord Mito

Genre: Horror

Cast: Ryūnosuke Tsukigata

An adventure of a feisty girl Oyuki and Santa, a homeless child she saves.

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Cast: Hibari Misora

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Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

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Cast: Hibari Misora

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Kōtarō Satomi

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Cast: Hibari Misora

1948 adaptation of Golden Devil

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Cast: Ken Uehara

1948 adaptation of Golden Devil, part 2

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Cast: Ken Uehara

One of the most popular history-based characters is back when Magistrate Saemonojo Toyama no Kinsan investigates the tragic shipwreck of the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Harima Aoyama (Chiyonosuke Azume) was a young hatamoto (samurai bannerman) to the Shogun. He seduced his commoner house maid Okiku (Hibari). He...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Hibari Misora

After the Onin War ended in 1477, Kyoto was left in ashes and the nation was in complete disorder. Bands of roving samurai called the "nobushi"...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Ryutaro Otomo

The adopted son of an Osaka courier falls in love with a prostitute and, discovering that she is about to be purchased by a client, steals money from...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

A young, feisty woman named Osome searches for her true love in the midst of a family crisis.

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Cast: Hibari Misora

During the Age Of Wars (Sengoku Era), Tokugawa Ieyasu and Toyotomi Hideyoshi are vying for power and each uses their secret weapons in order to try...

Genre: Action

Cast: Sentarō Fushimi

A popular dance master in Edo meets a yakuza man, and the maddened master is killed in the end of their tremendous love affair. The master becomes a...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Ryūji Shinagawa

Frustrated with the bad behavior of his lord, Inaba Yajuro (Otomo) declares that he is leaving the clan and sets off on a journey that leads him...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryutaro Otomo

The story of five easygoing Yakuza who come together to save the live of a young innocent girl, Oichi, from an evil vassal.

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Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Princess Kazu, the daughter of Shogun Ienari, is sent to marry Matsudaira Nobunao, master of Peacock castle in Kozuke province, a domain of 17,000...

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Cast: Ryutaro Otomo

A fellow member of the company named Hanjiro tells Koharu, an actress in a traveling theatrical troupe, about a keepsake folding fan that his lost...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chiyonosuke Azuma

A successful textile industrialist from the provinces, who is beloved by his employees for his kindness, cannot find a wife because of a disfiguring...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

A maiden is murdered by a mysterious ninja, unfortunately two young ladies witness this, good thing the bored Lord is walking by, he saved the girls...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

One of the great stories from Japan’s rich history comes to life in this true tale of the bloody showdown between two rival yakuza gangs in the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

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Cast: Kōtarō Satomi

Being acquainted with the bride's uncle, a famed private detective is invited to a wedding ceremony. The groom's family is moneyed and owns large...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

This remake of Satomi Hakkenden is the most requested of all Toei movies and features some of the greatest special effects ever filmed. Set in the...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Sentarō Fushimi

The long-awaited Hakkenshi arrive at Takita Castle, which is saddened by successive defeats.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Sentarō Fushimi