Utaemon Ichikawa
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1904-02-11
Locus Natus: Marugame, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
Et ut: Утаэмон Итикава
Thus the Divine Wind Blows
Set in the late thirteenth century, this film depicts the defense of southern Japan led by the Kono clan against the Mongol invasion in 1281.
release : 1944.08.11popularis : 1.01
G-men of Japan 2: Bloody Duel at Shipwreck Cape
The second part of an action-packed action movie about the struggle between smugglers, the Japanese Coast Guard and G-men. Having caught a suspicious...
release : 1950.01.03popularis : 1.637
Ooka Seidan: Devil Image
Magistrate Ooka and a samurai fight against evil forces.
release : 1960.05.22popularis : 1.6
The 47 Ronin
In 1701, Lord Takuminokami Asano has a feud with Lord Kira and he tries to kill Kira in the corridors of the Shogun's palace. The Shogun sentences...
release : 1941.12.08popularis : 6.75
Eight Views of Samurai
Bright samurai movie innovatively adapted from a classic story. A traveling masterless samurai is asked by a daughter of an established samurai...
release : 1958.05.27popularis : 2.45
The Samurai Markets
The success story of a group of ronin who fights against traffickers during the Edo Tenpo period.
release : 1960.03.22popularis : 0.89
A Thousand Standards of Stone
A film about the rivalry and friendship between firefighter Chоji and sumo wrestler Sokichi Fudoyama.
release : 1950.12.31popularis : 0.706
Kisaragi Sword
The story concerns the efforts of seven master swordsman who join together to protect the new inexperienced Shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune from the evil...
release : 1962.04.08popularis : 2.112
The Imposter
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...
release : 1952.01.14popularis : 0.773
Skull
A rare film which depicts the tragic fate of a Christian lord who fought for his fate in the Edo period. Of note is Utaemon Ichikawa's extraordinary...
release : 1927.05.10popularis : 1.303
Travels of Lord Mito Pt.2
At the transformed Fumaden (Demon Subduing) Temple, with the dynamic efforts of Sukesan and Kakusan, and the appearance of the heroic woman Oshin,...
release : 1952.03.06popularis : 2.834
Travels of Lord Mito Pt.1
The deputy shogun of the realm, accompanied by his loyal and capable aides, makes a stop at Jigokudani, a place along his journey through various...
release : 1952.02.14popularis : 1.483
The Sun
Adaptation of the Riichi Yokomitsu novel.
release : 1953.11.18popularis : 1.226
Ancient Coins
This 1956 adaptation of the novel with the same title puts more focus on the characters and their interactions than the previous version.
release : 1956.08.29popularis : 0.868
Shadow Over Fuji
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...
release : 1957.10.29popularis : 2.457
Epic Crash
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.
release : 1958.09.23popularis : 1.754
Fencing Master
Swordfighting instructor Danpei works at a local theater in Tokyo, instructing the actors how to fight realistically.
release : 1950.08.26popularis : 1.387
Kojiki Taishô
Gotō Matabei is the most able and fierce samurai of the Kuroda clan. However, he gradually dislikes the ruthless personality of Kuroda Nagamasa...
release : 1952.04.03popularis : 0.88
Aoi Secret Book
A Golden Age drama depicting the exploits of passionate patriot Uotaro Toge in the midst of a mysterious standoff over the Secret Book of Aoi, which...
release : 1958.03.25popularis : 0.709
The Lord's spy
Maeda Tsunanori, the lord of Kaga Domain, had two young princes - Katsumaru, the son of his legitimate wife, who died, and Yasunosuke, the son of his...
release : 1964.01.26popularis : 0.459
The Loyal 47 Ronin
This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their...
release : 1932.03.01popularis : 1.09
豪快三人男
In the midst of the Siege of Osaka in the Sengoku period, a thrilling tale unfolds featuring a trio of ronin who manipulate a group of spies, a...
release : 1951.05.05popularis : 1.235
旗本退屈男謎の伏魔殿
In Kyoto, a samurai named Boredom Otoko, Sosuke Saotome, appears and helps a woman being chased by a spy named Genshichi. Unfortunately, the woman is...
release : 1955.12.25popularis : 1.335
Drenched Swallow Gonpachi
This is the story of Gonpachi, a ronin who falls in love with the daughter of a man he had killed many years before.
release : 1958.10.14popularis : 2.234
素浪人百万石
At a tavern in Shimoda, Ronin Tadakazu Yamakawa saved a samurai girl named Mino from the clutches of the Benten family. When Mino's father, Kyohei...
release : 1960.11.15popularis : 0.858
Samurai Hawk
1716, Yoshimune becomes the 8th Shogun as high Shogunate officials are attacked. While the government tries to keep these incidents under wraps, they...
release : 1961.03.05popularis : 1.322
Seven from Edo
When Katsukawa, a low ranking vassal, learns that his greedy superior, Tatewaki, has hatched a plan to expand his territory, he and his comrades...
release : 1958.04.30popularis : 1.615
Five Men of Edo
During the 17th Century roving bands of hatamoto were causing trouble in the new capital city of Edo and constantly fought with the townspeople at...
release : 1951.11.22popularis : 2.726
The 47 Masterless Samurai
While the story of the Ako Clan's vendetta has been told countless times, never before has there been an array of major motion picture stars to bring...
release : 1959.01.15popularis : 1.29
Runway to Hell
When Kaneko Ichinosuke aims to avenge his father who was wrongly accused of embezzlement, the samurai Kochiyama Soshun agrees to assist.
release : 1960.05.03popularis : 1.602
A Spectacular Showdown
One of the great stories from Japan’s rich history comes to life in this true tale of the bloody showdown between two rival yakuza gangs in the...
release : 1959.08.09popularis : 1.728
The Man Who Challenged 8,000,000-Koku
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...
release : 1961.09.13popularis : 2.264
Tsukigata Hanpeita
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...
release : 1952.05.29popularis : 1.095
A Chivalrous Spirit
An all-star cast highlights this Jidai-Geki classic. Set in the samurai era, this is the tale of period Yakuza. One of the real classics in this...
release : 1958.01.03popularis : 2.371
Lord Mito
This most celebrated all-star movie version of the popular series features Tsukigata Ryunosuke as Mito Komon, the sage who wanders the countryside...
release : 1957.08.11popularis : 1.659
Shimizu Port of Chivalry
An all-star cast highlights this Jidai-Geki classic. Set in the samurai era, this is the tale of period Yakuza. One of the real classics in this...
release : 1957.01.03popularis : 1.328
The Mansion of Intrigue
A swordsman must foil a minister's sinister plan to assassinate the shogun.
release : 1957.12.28popularis : 2.022
Ninja Assassins
Saotome Mondonosuke pursues the culprit who placed a malicious curse upon Shogun Tsunekichi.
release : 1960.06.29popularis : 1.735
The Acrobats of Death
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.
release : 1959.01.09popularis : 1.266
The Mysterious Cape
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...
release : 1963.01.09popularis : 1.849
Showdown at Lightning Pass
A story about a spear master’s spiritual and martial discipline.
release : 1962.10.27popularis : 1.144
The Ako Retainers
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...
release : 1961.03.28popularis : 1.149
Rebellion
In the mist of the warring age (Sengoku Era), the Kyushu based Hayato Clan is faced with a monumental battle to determine their survival.
release : 1957.04.30popularis : 2.032
Drunken Sword
Tetsunosuke, an eccentric doctor and an owner of a fencing school, takes aim against corrupt authorities.
release : 1962.09.01popularis : 2.054
No Stronger Swords
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...
release : 1959.05.05popularis : 2.499
Bored Hatamoto: The Daimonji Conspiracy
Master swordsman and loyal vassal Saotome Mondonosuke goes on a mission to find a missing princess.
release : 1959.06.28popularis : 2.54
Bored Hatamoto: Idle Vassal Tribute
Master swordsman and loya 'Hatamoto' (direct vassal to the Shogun), Saotome Mondonosuke, is sent to investigate an intrigue centering on the Date...
release : 1958.08.12popularis : 1.792
Bored Hatamoto: Island of No Return
Part of the Bored Hatamoto series. The most popular samurai in Edo, Saotome Mondonosuke, known to most as the "Bored Hatamoto" is the only one who...
release : 1960.01.09popularis : 1.185
A Sword Against Intrigue
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....
release : 1959.10.23popularis : 4.35
Tokaido Fullhouse
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...
release : 1963.01.03popularis : 1.205
Street of Wandering Men
When a group of men from the Hanya clan search his town for a missing geisha, a brave ronin decides to help her and a drunken calligrapher. In doing...
release : 1963.02.17popularis : 1.866
Road of Chivalry
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...
release : 1960.01.03popularis : 4.527
Virtue in Spades
Adaptation of the novel by Kan Shimozawa.
release : 1956.05.03popularis : 2.377
Travels of Gonkuro
Sugimoto Gonkuro is travelling along from Tosa to Edo. On his journey he will meet both good and bad people.
release : 1961.12.06popularis : 2.605
The Cave of the Vampire Bats
A maiden is murdered by a mysterious ninja, unfortunately two young ladies witness this, good thing the bored Lord is walking by, he saved the girls...
release : 1961.08.01popularis : 1.362
The Lost Public Funds
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...
release : 1958.11.11popularis : 1.034
Lord Mito: All Star Version
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,...
release : 1960.08.07popularis : 2.963
Bloody Battle at Dawn
A story of revenge between two samurai families on the Igagoe Road. Araki Mataemon born in the province of Iga. He studied the art of the sword under...
release : 1959.10.10popularis : 2.071
Lord of Steel Heart
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...
release : 1961.01.09popularis : 1.02
Lords of Oppression
Period drama directed by Yasushi Sasaki.
release : 1957.03.13popularis : 0.867
Lords of Oppression 2
Period drama directed by Yasushi Sasaki.
release : 1957.03.27popularis : 1.257
Lord of Red Banner
A young lord lives against the will of his father Lord Tokugawa.
release : 1960.02.14popularis : 1.13
Golden Valley
A samurai thief fights a gang of ghostly thieves using scorpions for treasure in the unexplored Shinano region, which is guarded by a descendant of...
release : 1955.03.30popularis : 1.273
A Color Print of Edo
The Color Print of Edo is a 1939 black and white Japanese silent film with benshi accompaniment directed by Kazuo Mori. It is a cheerful period...
release : 1939.05.10popularis : 1.474
Mito Kōmon Manyu-ki
This is the only surviving "Mito Komon Manyu-ki" film. This release also known as Adrift Tour Memoir is an 80-minute compilation of the first and...
release : 1938.01.22popularis : 1.2