Shintarō Nanjō Movies

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Film directed by Kenji Misumi

Genre: Action

Cast: Tōru Abe

Returning to the village where a year before he had killed Hirate, a much-admired opponent, Zatoichi encounters another swordsman and former rival in...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

One of Japanese folklore's most popular characters is brought to life on the silver screen in this terrific version of legendary Demon slaying Peach...

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

The exciting story of Jirocho and his yakuza gang that controlled the area of the Tokaido during the latter days of the samurai era. Awesome...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Shortly after the Meiji Restoration, young people devoted to the teachings of Saigo Takamori trained day and night at Seiyun Juku in Kagoshima,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yukio Hashi

Third film of the yoidore hakase series

Genre: Action

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

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Cast: Eiko Yanami

One day, a funeral was held at one of the tenements in Asakusa. It was the only son of a wealthy merchant named Matasaburo, who had run away from...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Ganjirō Nakamura II

Tsunamune Date, the young lord of Sendai Domain, was ordered by the shogunate to stand down after being spotted in a brothel. Shortly after, four...

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Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

During the reign of Hidetada, the second shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty, the advisor Okubo Hikozaemon (Ganjiro Nakamura) entrusts the young Takechiyo...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

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Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu

A freestyle biopic of Ikki Kita, the ultranationalist intellectual whose ideas inspired the failed military coup in 1936.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

The film won 1959 Blue Ribbon Awards for best actor Raizo Ichikawa and for best cinematography Kazuo Miyagawa. The film also won 1959 Kinema Junpo...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

First in the Nage Utasamon series

Genre: Horror

Cast: Yataro Kurokawa

Japan, 1159. Moritō, a brave samurai, performs a heroic act by rescuing the lovely Kesa during a violent uprising. Moritō falls in love...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

An Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six years in search of spiritual enlightenment. Siddartha...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

The Lord of Okazaki is killed by his brother-in-law. Although the Lord's widow bears a child, she is also killed. Then, a ghost cat begins stalking...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Takako Irie

First of nine films based on the novel. The first live-action adaptation focuses on the origins of how Akadô Suzunosuke learned his skills as a...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Shoji Umewaka

In the second film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto battles a group of female ninja in the employ of the Yagyu clan and must assassinate a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

The tragic, yet exciting story of the friendship between Nakayama Yasubei, a member of the 47 Ronin, and Tange Tenzen, a relative by marriage of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

In the mountain regions of Hida, the dreams of a peasant named Kyonosuke, who longed to be a samurai, come true when he becomes one of three doubles,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Ronin samurai Ibuki-san enters a town and sells his skills to the warring families. He falls in love with the beautiful horse stable owner but like...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Warlord Oda Nobunaga seeks to unite a fractured Japan. A young man trained in the arts of ninjitsu is manipulated by a ninja master into attempting...

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

[Period covered: 1582-1594]. As the film opens, the warlod Nobunaga Oda rides to Iga Ayanokuni shrine. He is asked if he thinks he has destroyed all...

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

[Period Covered: 1570-1573] Towards the end of the Tenmon Era, Shogun Ashikaga`s powers were weakening by the day and many were there who planned to...

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Wandering samurai Nemuri Kyoshiro (Raizô Ichikawa) finds a bulls-eye on his back after befriending the shogunate's tightfisted financial...

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

A decapitation at the hands of the shogun's monstrous misbegotten son kicks off the action and draws nomadic Nemuri Kyoshiro (Raizô Ichikawa)...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

A fugitive christian "saint" (female, of course!) and a sadistic drug-addled princess both have their eye on Kyoshiro. The fact that a bunch of...

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

As winds of change sweep Japan, an honest man joins the Shinsengumi out of admiration for its leader, and because he wants to live and die as a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Shigeru Amachi

Early film directed by Kenji Misumi.

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Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Set up to be the patsy by a rival gang, Furuta Makoto attacks the yakuza boss he thinks is responsible for his father’s murder. He then learns...

Genre: Action

Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

Nemuri Kyoshiro discovers a conspiracy centering around a band of disgruntled samurai wanting to avenge the death of their sensei, a political...

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

During the 1200's, legendary Buddhist monk Nichiren returns from his studies to lead Japan out of moral crisis and prepare to fight Mongol invaders...

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Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Takeshi Ijuin leaves for Chicago to be a cameraman, and a few years later returns to Japan. But he only learned the technique of homicide in Chicago....

Genre: Action

Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

Yoso is truly a lost classic, set in the Nara Era (710-794), from Kinugasa Teinosuke the same writer/director who gave us the recognized classic Gate...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

A tanuki-themed musical.

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Cast: Yataro Kurokawa

Sentaro is been severely beaten for his defiance of the government and the high taxes during a time of famine. He is befriended by Kada Gentaro, a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

Ishimatsu of Mori, from his early days leading up to his joining with Shimizu Jirocho, Boss of the Tokaido where he made his mark in history through...

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu

This period thriller concerns a very famous cat known as the "monster cat of Nabeshima". This cat, a symbol of vengeance in human disguise, takes...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Kōjirō Hongō

A demon-faced monster seeking revenge appears in the forms of a gigantic ox and a huge spider! The young Genji warrior protects the Fujiwara Clan and...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

The story of Sasaki Kojiro, a young swordsman, and his quest to train under master Seigen and develop his own style.

Genre: Action

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

A woman loses her son through an evil conspiracy and commits suicide. Shortly afterwards a ghost cat begins haunting the conspirators. This is...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Kōtarō Bandō

A power struggle in the fief of Okazaki causes the death of Namiji, a nobleman's daughter. As her fiancé seeks revenge, he finds Namiji's cat...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Story about a gambler who gets involved in a struggle between companies.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

Blind masseur and master swordsman Zatoichi finds a robbed and fatally wounded pregnant woman, whose baby he delivers before she dies. He takes the...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Ichi is staying at an inn when a woman dies. Her dying wish is that Ichi take her son to his father, an artist living in a nearby town. After...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Special Forces commander Captain Tadamori returns to Kyoto after successfully defeating the uprising of pirates in the western sea of Japan. But...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

From the pen of Yoshikawa Eiji comes this exciting story. The Naruto Strait separates Tokushima from the islands of Awaji and Honshu. On Tokushima...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chikage Awashima

Dedication of the Great Buddha is a 1952 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

A 1941 Japanese film directed by Shinzo Yoshida.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Omenosuke Ichikawa

A story about Ômura Masujirô

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shinobu Araki

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Tired of everyday life, the 8th Shogun Yoshimune flees Edo Castle and asks Ooka Echizen to become his personal assistant. In a rice shop, Yoshimune...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

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Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

1961 Japanese movie

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Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

About 1786 the doings of a demented lord results in many masterless samurai, including Iyemon (Kei Sato) who is used to luxury and cannot adjust to...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Kazuko Inano

Second in the Nage Utasamon series

Genre: Horror

Cast: Yataro Kurokawa

Film about Ghost-Cat.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Asako Ashigara