Movies

Japanese comedy film.

Utaemon Ichikawa plays the role of Hikoshiro Navate, who has a strong sense of justice and opposes power and tyranny with his will and spirit.

After Aoi Shingo, the illegitimate son of Shogun Yoshimune has gained prominence as the finest swordsman in the land, he tries to lead a peaceful...

A swordsman must foil a minister's sinister plan to assassinate the shogun.

1962 Japanese movie

The second of two films based on the novel by Futaro Yamada.

1958 Japanese movie

The mysterious black hooded man, Kurozukin, helps transport funds raised to fight against the government.

A story of young people in the immediate aftermath of World War II, their post-war careers, sorrows, and triumphs.

In the early Edo period, among the pirate ships that roamed the seas near Ryukyu and Korea, there was a ship called the Sueyoshi, led by a man known...

Action and adventure abound in this story of friendship between two rival firefighters, Kichigoro and Jirokichi in old Japan. When Mukai Sadayu, the...

Detective Umon’s services are called upon when ronin Yaichiro is killed with a peculiar weapon, a stone wrapped in a towel.

The third part of the story about feudal boss Jirocho and his underlings.

Around the Genroku era, there was a man named Saotome Shusui-no-Suke, nephew to the senior councilor Matsudaira Sakon Shogen. He was commonly known...

Comedy with music starring the rock band The Spiders.

A kabuki actor is assassinated during a New Year celebration show, in front of everyone, fortunately the great detective Umon is among the audience....