Hiroko Sakuramachi Movies

In the year 1786, Shogun Ieharu Tokugawa selected beautiful Ochisa to be his concubine. It causes other concubines to become very jealous and mean....

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Cast: Tomoko Ogawa

With plenty of action, and a strong story about the growth and development of an expert swordsman, who just happens to be from an extremely...

Genre: Action

Cast: Minoru Chiaki

The second film in the 20 Duels of Young Shingo trilogy directed by Sadatsugu Matsuda.

Genre: Action

Cast: Minoru Chiaki

While on his journey through the countryside of Japan, Shingo encounters many people whose lives have been affected by his actions. Though the many...

Genre: Action

Cast: Hashizo Okawa

Tokizо, the boss of the Tenmaru-gumi group, assists Kikujiro, a traveler on the run. At this time, a tender is being held to conclude a...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Ryutaro Otomo as the Edo magistrate Umon Kondo is out to solve a crime that centers around the murder of a jail guard & the escape of a criminal who...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ryutaro Otomo

Sequel to the movie Judo Ichidai (Judo Life) with Sonny Chiba

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sonny Chiba

Young Lord Taihei goes to Edo to find the lost family treasure, a plover incense burner, under the disguise of a ronin.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hashizo Okawa

The year is 1805. Napoleon ruled Europe. Ienari is the 11th Tokugawa Shogun. An incident, which was an open official secret, took place on the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

Tasuke stumbles across Kokichi, a distraught man whom having lost his fiancee to Lord Kawakatsu is ready to commit suicide. Tasuke learns that...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Kōkichi Takada

When Katsukawa, a low ranking vassal, learns that his greedy superior, Tatewaki, has hatched a plan to expand his territory, he and his comrades...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryutaro Otomo

Magically gifted boy Sasuke lives in peace, deep in the forest with his animal pals and Oyu, his elder sister. After their forest sanctuary is...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Katsuo Nakamura

Rampant ronin Matashiro Sasai, finds himself embroiled in serious unrest after he rescues a geisha who is being kidnapped by a group of ronin.

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Cast: Kōkichi Takada

Genjiro was a samurai in the past, but he became a Yakuza, a dandy with a tattoo of red peonies, he helps his younger brother who is caught up in a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hashizo Okawa

Best friends Gentaro and Sanpei become fateful enemies when Sanpei steals a secret document revealing the identity of the chosen successor to the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chiyonosuke Azuma

Kokubu Masaru (Bunta Sugawara) is a hard-headed, hot-tempered member of a street vendor clan run by an elderly boss (Kanjuro Arashi). They come into...

Genre: Action

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

The second film in the Kanto Street Peddlers Clan series starring Bunta Sugawara.

Genre: Action

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

The fourth part in the series "Code Between Brothers". The story takes place in Fukagawa, Tokyo, at the beginning of the Showa era, where five...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Saburo Kitajima

Yakuza Kojima appeared in Yokkaichi in search of her mother who died when she was young. There he met Torajiro, a master of kendo, who had just left...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

Tetsuya, a young yakuza, returns to his family after his adoptive father is wounded in an attack from a rival gang. In his battle against...

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Cast: Koujiro Shimizu

A ghost interrupts the journey of two young noblemen who are disguised as merchants.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

A third-generation Japanese-American student moves to Wakayama to study lacquerware painting and is invited to a homestay at Wakisaka's house in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Makoto Fujita

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Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

Continuation of the biographical film about the monk Shinran, based on the novel by Eiji Yoshikawa. Shinran, born of the fading aristocratic class,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

Young Lord Genjiro, who abandoned his castle to live as a commoner in Edo, returns home to restore peace amidst disruption over an inheritance...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

A village samurai with money, power and great masculinity goes to the flourishing city of Edo to have some fun and practice. And here he is attacked...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Chiyonosuke Azuma

Master swordsman and loya 'Hatamoto' (direct vassal to the Shogun), Saotome Mondonosuke, is sent to investigate an intrigue centering on the Date...

Genre: Action

Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

As Part I opens, Jubei (Denjiro Okochi), the best of sea skippers, is unable to overcome the stormy seas of Luzon. All hands on board the Kannonmaru...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

Movie directed by Sadatsugu Matsuda

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Cast: Hashizo Okawa

The film tells about a young detective Zenigata Heiji who successfully solves a disgusting and unusual case involving the manufacture of counterfeit...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kotaro Satomi

Jiromaru (Kinnosuke Nakamura) investigates the dark "Ghost Ship" in search of his father. Meanwhile, Princess Yuki (Yumiko Hasegawa) and Chacha (Eiko...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

Yotsuya Kaidan, the story of Oiwa and Tamiya Iemon, is a tale of betrayal, murder and ghostly revenge. Arguably the most famous Japanese ghost story...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

Based on the original story by Seishi Yokomizo, House of Spider Webs is a gorgeous historical drama thriller starring Kinnosuke Nakamura and directed...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

A wandering vagrant, Hantaro, risks his life to save a beautiful blind girl and her father from con artists.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hashizo Okawa

Young lord Saburo Nobuyasu struggles to find comfort in life. His arranged marriage to Tokuhime, daughter of one-time family enemy Oda Nobunaga,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

A carpenter, Shigetsugu, learns a lesson of love and humanity from five orphaned children and an affectionate woman named Oritsu. It's a winning...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

Richshaw man Tatsu has wandered to Osaka from Tokyo. He has quarrels with Kimiyakko, a geisha, and throws her into the river. But later, he falls in...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sumiko Fuji

Story of loyal sailors giving their lives for their country as human torpedoes towards the end of the War.

Genre: War

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

A tale of three Yakuza gamblers who traveled Japan during the samurai era living by their wits and sword skills. Told in 3 separate vignettes, each...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

Shinkai comes to the aid of a coastal village being held hostage by a group of political revolutionaries.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

The story is set in Bakumatsu and revolves around the Bunta Sugawara character, a yakuza (of course :) but instead of a modern yakuza/gangster, he's...

Genre: Action

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

An injured Edo official is rescued by a vassal whose appearance is exactly like himself, and swears to sweep out the criminals from the town on his...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hashizo Okawa

In 1930, the chance meeting of a novelist and one of his fans opens the door to a series of mysterious events culminating in the death of a wealthy...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Teruhiko Aoi

The legendary one-eyed one-armed swordsman Tange Sazen is back to aid a Magistrate in his efforts to steal bribe money on its way to Edo for the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryutaro Otomo

A story of an orphan boy who wanted the love of parents so badly, another orphan sincerely pitied him to the point he gives his secret birthright as...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

As a result of a superstitious belief that twins bring bad luck to the family, newborn twin princesses are separated. Yukihime, who was sent away to...

Genre: Action

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

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

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ryutaro Otomo

Kunisada Chuji is a common folk hero who looks out for poor people in the country who are at the mercy of corrupt officials. Intent on fulfilling a...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

This most celebrated all-star movie version of the popular series features Tsukigata Ryunosuke as Mito Komon, the sage who wanders the countryside...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryūnosuke Tsukigata

Upon his arrival to Dragon Island, ronin Yagi Hanzo, is propositioned by various shady individuals representing rival gangs to lend his services to...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Hashizo Okawa

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

Genre: Action

Cast: Hiroko Sakuramachi

A good set-in-per-WW2 ninkyô type film with outstanding performances.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hashizo Okawa

Upon returning to his hometown of Nagasaki, recently released prisoner Tachibana Shinichi must rejoin the Asahi gang family in order to pay back a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ken Takakura

The Shinsengumi is a special unit of ronin commissioned by the Tokugawa shogunate to counter anti-shogunate activities in Kyoto. A sinister plot to...

Genre: Action

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

A suspenseful Ninja fantasy based on Shiba Ryotaro's novel, woven with the mysterious fate and romance of Shinzo and a beautiful Princess who find...

Genre: History

Cast: Hashizo Okawa

The Ni Family is the most well know and respected group of firefighters in the Kanto region. When their leader dies and the successor disappears,...

Genre: Action

Cast: Sumiko Fuji

The hero tries to unite various gangs.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Noboru Andō

Friendship between good samurais and aborigines in Hokkaido.

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Cast: Kinya Kitaoji

In the third, and final chapter of this epic tale, handsome swordsman Genji helps a vulnerable princess who is in search of a missing scroll that...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

One of Japan’s most popular folklore characters, Tange Sazen, the one-eyed and one-armed swordsman, must rescue the Yagyu clan from the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryutaro Otomo

Japanese drama.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroko Sakuramachi

A former soldier is caught working the black market and sent to prison while his partner escapes and goes on to become a gangster, but their paths...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Noboru Andō

Kamio a mistreated samurai clerk of Edo Castle and ronin (“Sir Quarrel”) Ibara, take up a vendetta against 17 wicked castle men.

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Cast: Hashizo Okawa

Five swordsmen are murdered and hung from a tree and the chase is on to find the killers. Two magistrates pursue the leads to solve the crime and it...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryutaro Otomo

Kataoka Chiezo stars as Murasaki Zukin, a mysterious hero of the people who helps those in need. Now under the rule of the evil Tanuma, the people...

Genre: Action

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Tange Sazen interferes with an evil plot against the Iga Yagyu family.

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Cast: Ryutaro Otomo

Umon goes on an investigation to unveil the murderer known as Red Lizard.

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Cast: Ryutaro Otomo

Toei’s 10th anniversary film, featuring an all-star cast from the golden movie era of the 1960s. A famous story of the 47 loyal samurai. When...

Genre: Action

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

In this film in the long running series, Tange Sazen and his friends are asked to guard a dragon-shaped incense burner that holds the key to hidden...

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Cast: Ryutaro Otomo

Kichizaburo, a samurai keeping peace in Edo, helps a young geisha Kozome avenge her father’s death.

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Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

When the country is in peril, Lord Yagyu Tajima summons his son Yagyu Jubei to retrieve the mystical Yagyu Scroll in order to save all of Japan. This...

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Cast: Jūshirō Konoe

After being bailed out of trouble by a member of the Kaijima Clan, Ryuhei dedicates himself to saving the Kajima’s lucrative lumber business.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideo Murata

A group of men living a low life in Edo help each other to make the best out of their lives.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hashizo Okawa

Ryujin Misaki, located at the edge of the Genkai Sea, is known as an isolation ward for leprosy patients. When Saotome, a sword master and guard of...

Genre: Action

Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

Tokyo, 1934. The boss of the clan that controls gambling agonizes and some of his followers propose to Nakai to take his place, but he refuses the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

The three-film saga comes to a conclusion as three leaders of the underworld battle it out to determine who will become Don of Japan.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Saburi

Ken Takakura stars as Ryoji one of the Aramasa family's loyal lieutenants whao takes the burden of his family being insulted by the Tanuma's family...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ken Takakura

This anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when assassins changed the course of Japanese history.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Prisoners with special skills from all over Japan are sent to the battlefront on a mission.

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Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

Hanjiro, a one eyed vagrant arrives in Okinoshima to save the town from a violent Yakuza group with the help of six handicapped guys.

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Cast: Koji Tsuruta

A lone gambler tries to keep a yakuza family from taking over a festival in Kitakyushu. After away from his hometown for 13 years, Ryuji comes back...

Genre: Action

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Two thrill seeking young lords sneak out of their castles and travel under the disguise of townsmen.

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Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

Featuring some of the finest swordsmen ever to grace the silver screen, this Toei classic tells the story of a battle between the evil sword style...

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Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

Mondonosuke, a young sword student, has a bad dream about his sensei being killed in a duel.Consequently, he quickly returns to his sensei's dojo in...

Genre: Action

Cast: Hashizo Okawa

Saotome, a sword master and guard of the Shogunate, pursues the mystery of a deadly aerial weapon that is responsible for the multiple deaths in town.

Genre: Action

Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

When the Shogun Tokugawa III is in bed with a girl, she turns into a monster. The court believes she is Ninja Magic, used to frighten the lord off...

Genre: Action

Cast: Isao Natsuyagi

A boy born in a poor village in Tokushima spends his days idly until a chance meeting sets him on the road to becoming boss of Japan's largest gang.

Genre: Action

Cast: Ken Takakura

The epic battles between the Heike and Genji (Taira and Minamoto clans) take centerstage as the defeated leader of the Genji, Minamoto Yoritomo...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hashizo Okawa

Popular geisha Shinji (Fuji Junko) must defy a gang who plot to steal a lucrative coal business from struggling miners during the turbulent Meiji...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sumiko Fuji

The sole survivor of a shipwreck pursues the whereabouts of his friends’ missing family members in Edo.

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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

Mumyo Tsunataro killed his betrayed fiance Orie and He flees to Utsunomiya. On his way he happens to saves Chisaka Hyobu's daughter Oyu (She is...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tetsuro Tamba

During the reign of 5th Shogun Tokugawa Tsuneyoshi a troupe of Chinese acrobats travel to Japan to help celebrate the building of the Yushima Shrine....

Genre: Action

Cast: Hiroko Sakuramachi

When master swordsman Mikogami Genshiro of the Ono fencing school returns to find that his ailing sensei has been murdered in the dead of night, he...

Genre: Action

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Romantic comedy.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

Shimamura & Mineko return to Kamagasaki in Osaka. In their return Shimamura quickly finds himself defending a lady in distress. During the skirmish...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

Sugimoto Gonkuro is travelling along from Tosa to Edo. On his journey he will meet both good and bad people.

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Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

Detective Hanshichi (Kataoka Chiezo) solves 3 mysterious murder cases. Great story and an impressive all-star cast, a must see!

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Fishmonger Tasuke and Shogun Iemitsu swap their identities in pretence for the protection of Iemitsu.

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Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

Ninkyo with Kôji Tsuruta. An elderly yakuza brother tries to clear an underling’s name.

Genre: Action

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

In turbulent 16th-century Japan, the leaders of a minor fief have their child taken from them as a political hostage. His mother and his clan endure...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinya Kitaoji

Two guardians of the Nijo Castle, Shioya and Kamazawa, discover a map leading to a secret passage to Edo Castle. Instead of reporting their find to...

Genre: Action

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Tsuruta is a respected tattoo artist working with comrades Machida and Yamashiro. His former boss, who also just happens to be the master who had...

Genre: Action

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Eight villains, former pirates, gather to attack the magistrate's office. They develop a plan and begin their actions in secret, making full use of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuo Kaneko

Finding more freedom on the high seas than in war-torn Japan, the 'Bahansen' (Pirate ships) based on the Seto Inland Sea during the Warring Period...

Genre: Action

Cast: Hashizo Okawa

A family is brutally murdered in their own home and the official government's sake dealer is framed as a rebel by a corrupt member of the Shogun's...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ushio Akashi

All is not well in an a small fishing village not far from Edo. Mysterious goings-on are happening at Echigoya’s Red Crane Mansion, and when...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hashizo Okawa

In 1691 a terrible fire broke out in Denmacho, Yotsuya, burning down the towns around it, up to the shores of Shibaura. A month and a half later,...

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Cast: Ryūnosuke Tsukigata

Love-hate drama of three beautiful sisters in Ooku in Edo Castle.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Sakuma

From an original story by Shibata Renzaburo, the novelist who created such classics as: the "Nemuri Kyoshiro" series (Son of the Black Mass),...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

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...

Genre: History

Cast: Hashizo Okawa

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Cast: Kotaro Satomi

This gripping historical drama depicts a clash of swordsmen, secret government spies, mysterious thieves, robbers and roving samurai who want to take...

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Cast: Jūshirō Konoe

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Cast: Kotaro Satomi

When Kanbe Nagakichi has his turf taken over by Ano-Toku, the father-in-law of his sworn brother Kira Nikichi sets in motion one of the most violent...

Genre: Action

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

Genre: Action

Cast: Ryutaro Otomo

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hiroshi Abe

This movie depicts a familiar samurai Tange Sazen story realistically. A Tange loses one of his eyes and arms in an attempt to recover a masterpiece...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryutaro Otomo

Action drama about a Japanese gangster in Manchuria circa 1932, who finally joins some Chinese mountain bandits.

Genre: Action

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

The Kanto Brothers' Code of Honor (関東兄弟仁義 仁侠) is a 1971 film directed by Buichi Saitō....

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Cast: Saburo Kitajima

With flashing swordwork and a terrific story, wandering gambler Kusama Hanjiro inspires the wrath of Boss Jirotaro who has been terrorizing travelers...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hashizo Okawa

A Tokugawa Daimyo rebels against an his lord after the battle of Sekigahara. Samurai Matabei, a famous spear fighter and warrior, is a vassal of lord...

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Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa