Keiko Okawa
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1936-07-26
Locus Natus: Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan
Et ut:
Young Lord Yakuza
Young Lord Taihei goes to Edo to find the lost family treasure, a plover incense burner, under the disguise of a ronin.
release : 1961.06.11popularis : 2.558
Cases of An Actor in Disguise: Bloodskull Mansion
The second work in the series "Cases of An Actor in Disguise" starring Kokichi Takada, based on the original work of Tatsuro Jinde. Popular ronin...
release : 1961.05.10popularis : 1.196
Fateful Birthplace
A sad love story between young Umihiko Kojima and a beautiful girl named Yukiko Shino.
release : 1961.09.06popularis : 1.24
Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 3
The adventures of Aoi Shingo continue. Shingo is finally given permission to officially meet his father, the Shogun. However, his journey is...
release : 1960.03.27popularis : 0.647
Ooka Seidan: Devil Image
Magistrate Ooka and a samurai fight against evil forces.
release : 1960.05.22popularis : 1.6
Eleven Samurai
The lord of the Oshi fief is killed by his trespassing neighbour, the cruel and despotic Nariatsu, son of the former Shogun. After an investigation,...
release : 1967.12.16popularis : 5.539
Mermaid Murder Case
The sixth episode of Hashizo Okawa's "Wakasama Samurai" catch series.
release : 1957.09.29popularis : 1.754
Glorious Firefighter’s Standard
Firefighter Sanji learns the secret of his birth.
release : 1960.01.21popularis : 0.92
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
Red peonies on the skin
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...
release : 1957.07.02popularis : 1.698
Ghost Story on Passage
A ghost interrupts the journey of two young noblemen who are disguised as merchants.
release : 1958.07.13popularis : 1.172
In Search of Mother
Period piece about a young man who, because of his hard life alone in the world, has become a yakuza. When he hears that his mother may be living in...
release : 1962.01.14popularis : 1.864
Magistrate Ooka’s Legends
A hotshot investigator solves a series of gruesome murders in this exciting and dark classic.
release : 1958.07.23popularis : 2.405
Jirocho’s Days of Youth: Boss of the Tokai Region
His skill and courage were the best in Japan! The life story of Jirocho, a man who protected people on the Tokaido Road. The fearless Kinnosuke...
release : 1960.12.27popularis : 1.791
Kanbei's Bargain Sale
Wandering swordsman Kanbei, parading through town with a sign that reads "Seeking fights, selling my life cheap." One day, he receives a request from...
release : 1958.11.05popularis : 1.768
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
Ninja Assassins
Saotome Mondonosuke pursues the culprit who placed a malicious curse upon Shogun Tsunekichi.
release : 1960.06.29popularis : 1.735
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
An Actor's Revenge
Nakamura Yukinojo gains popularity in Edo's kabuki scene as a handsome onnagata (a male actor who plays female roles). But hidden behind the placid...
release : 1959.12.25popularis : 1.671
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 Shogun’s Guard: Valor in Turbulence
The stormy tale of the Shinsengumi is told from its birth by master filmmaker Sasaki Yasushi, with an all-star cast based on the original story by...
release : 1960.07.10popularis : 2.142
Case of Umon: Hell’s Windmill
Umon’s services are called upon when innocent bystanders, Kayo and Minokichi, along with the ronin, Gontaro are mistakenly identified as...
release : 1960.03.01popularis : 1.277
Case of Umon: The Nanbanzame Murders
The serial killing of a samurai each night by strangulation at various temples confounds investigators and brings a chill to the residents of Edo....
release : 1961.01.15popularis : 1.042
Sasaki Kojiro
Ronin Sasaki Kojiro pursues his ultimate goal of becoming a master swordsman. Along the way he encounters another great swordsman, Miyamoto Musashi.
release : 1957.10.22popularis : 2.541
The Mansion of Intrigue
A swordsman must foil a minister's sinister plan to assassinate the shogun.
release : 1957.12.28popularis : 2.022
Roughneck From Asama
When Boss Juzo's Shinmachi Yakuza family struck fear into the hearts of his adversaries, Boss Shohei's Okabe Yakuza family with a merciless gang of...
release : 1958.12.02popularis : 2.064
Tales of Young Genji Kuro 2
Thanks to a secret message hidden on the two sacred swords Kaen and Suien, the samurai Genji Kurô (Nakamura Kinnosuke) found the hidden...
release : 1958.03.11popularis : 1.5
Tales of Young Genji Kuro 3
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...
release : 1962.03.07popularis : 1.329
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
Festival of Swordsmen
During the middle of the Kanei Period (1624-1644) Japan was in the early stages of its most peaceful era. This left a large number of unemployed...
release : 1961.03.21popularis : 1.208
Feline Spirit
Go master Matashichiro Ryuzoji, during the game, was killed in anger by the Lord of the Nabeshima clan, Hizen-no-kami. The mother of the murdered...
release : 1958.06.29popularis : 1.194
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
Tange Sazen: Mystery of the Twin Dragons
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...
release : 1959.01.03popularis : 1.62
An Edo Magistrate
When a former artisan is tricked into putting his sister up as collateral for a loan by a gangster boss in a crooked gambling casino it sets in...
release : 1961.03.12popularis : 1.329
Unwieldy Brothers
Taisuke is kind-hearted but overall lacks ambition. Taizo is smarter, but given to fits of emotion and impulsive violence. The samurai brothers fight...
release : 1960.06.05popularis : 1.962
The Sword Knows
In the midst of the warring age, a young samurai Kyonosuke defies his former lord Hojo Ujikatsu in order to avenge his parents’ deaths.
release : 1958.09.03popularis : 2.065
Hibari’s Favorite 2
Young girl Kichiza searches for her missing brother and the person responsible for the death of her parents.
release : 1960.04.26popularis : 2.872
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
The Scarlet Cherry Lord
Light-hearted samurai comedy. The second son of a feudal lord runs away from an arranged marriage. He saves the life of a princess whom he gets to...
release : 1958.01.29popularis : 1.261
Evil Man of Edo
A classic battle between good and evil pits an unscrupulous fortuneteller who has been preying on the good citizens of Edo against a master-less...
release : 1959.12.13popularis : 1.061
Morning Breeze in Edo
The sole survivor of a shipwreck pursues the whereabouts of his friends’ missing family members in Edo.
release : 1960.11.29popularis : 1.631
The Red Shadow
Fifteen years after Ishida Mitsunari lost in the battle of Sekigahara, Tokugawa Ieyasu foresees his unavoidable battle with Toyotomi Hideyori and...
release : 1961.12.24popularis : 1.944
Sasaki Kojiro, Part 2
The conclusion of the story of famed swordsman, Sasaki Kojiro. After surviving a series of daring adventures, Kojiro seems to have finally discovered...
release : 1957.11.05popularis : 2.014
Scarier than the Devil
A stage director who directs a “Mori no Ishimatsu” play time travels and becomes “Mori no Ishimatsu” himself.
release : 1960.11.22popularis : 2.127
Fighting Disposition
With the help of famous yakuza Jirocho, brave and quick tempered Eijiro takes revenge on the death of his close friend.
release : 1958.12.27popularis : 1.653
Little Tengu
A story about a tomboy, Otoshi, who is good at singing, dancing and fencing.
release : 1961.04.25popularis : 1.469
Echo in the Mountains
A man is brutally murdered and his famed shamisen (a three-stringed musical instrument) called the "Yamabiko" stolen. Prince Kogenta swears to avenge...
release : 1959.09.20popularis : 2.633
Hawk of the North
During the latter part of the 16th Century, Japan's Warring States era was coming to a close. After crushing almost all of his enemies, Date Masamune...
release : 1959.05.25popularis : 2.22
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
The Medicine Case
Magistrate Ooka-Echizen faces a crime over a pillbox.
release : 1959.09.30popularis : 1.634
Hanjiro of Kusama: Bird of Passage
A kindhearted wandering gambler named Hajiro gets involved in a crisis of a village as he passes through and decides to lend a sword in hopes to...
release : 1960.05.29popularis : 3.153
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
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
The Forbidden Castle
From an original story by Shibata Renzaburo, the novelist who created such classics as: the "Nemuri Kyoshiro" series (Son of the Black Mass),...
release : 1959.02.24popularis : 2.514
Lord of Red Banner
A young lord lives against the will of his father Lord Tokugawa.
release : 1960.02.14popularis : 1.13