Kunitaro Sawamura Movies

The first film in the Daiei series. At the command of Lord Aiba, Tange Sazen targets two famous swords owned by Onozuka Tessai.

Two brothers, Takamaru and Kikumaru, are living with their father, Hakuraku-Ou, until one day Hakuraku-Ou is killed by "Death's-Head" Ginnosuke, a...

1951 Japanese movie. The characters of Mito Kōmon and Yaji and Kita are brought together

On March 11 in the seventh year of Tenpo (1836), a monk named Bennō, who fell in love with a geisha named Oshima, was publicly exposed at...

During the Warring States period, immediately after Hideyoshi Hashiba defeated Mitsuhide Akechi at the Battle of Yamazaki, in the village of Ogurisu...

Ryō Hagiwara movie

The rise of the famed gambler.

Adaptation of the novel by Osaragi Jirō.

The second film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass.

Final installment of the Okochi / Arai / Yamanaka Mito Komon series and just as good as the others (a good deal longer, as well). Again, this film...

Early jidaigeki by Tai Kato

Adaptation of the novel by Osaragi Jirō. Again scripted by the legendary Yamanaka Sadao

Second part of director Hiroshi Inagaki's 1940 adaptation of the story of Musashi Miyamoto.

A group of fishing boats dot the deep blue lake with white clouds rolling by. A heartwarming lyrical drama about the love story between an innocent...

The first film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass.

The time was the first year of Keio (1865). Upon hearing the news that the Imperial Army was approaching Hida Takayama, the district head Shimizu...