Utaemon Ichikawa Movies

This is the story of Gonpachi, a ronin who falls in love with the daughter of a man he had killed many years before.

Period drama directed by Yasushi Sasaki.

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

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

Bright samurai movie innovatively adapted from a classic story. A traveling masterless samurai is asked by a daughter of an established samurai...

While on the road, famed Yakuza Boss Jirocho is falsely accused of starting a peasant's uprising and chased by the law. Meanwhile, one of his...

Bored Hatamoto film #21

The first film produced by Daiei.

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...

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

Four thousand gold coins were stolen from the vault of Nijo Castle in Kyoto, which were collected as a tax to the shogun. The guard of Nijo castle...

Bored Hatamoto film #20

A young lord lives against the will of his father Lord Tokugawa.