Sōji Kiyokawa Filmes

Based on a short story by Dazai Osamu, produced under the national film law. The film's hero falls in love with the youngest daughter of a family he...

This adaptation of a Hideji Hojo novel, about the historical uprising of the Kuroda clan in 1633, is told through the eyes of retainer, Daizen. As...

Tanuma Kandayuu is a high class samurai of the house of Nabeshima. He finds a lavish board of Go (a Chinese Board game) at Kinbei's store. He...

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...

Kinnosuke of Toyama sets out on a private mission to clear his father’s name for a crime he did not commit.

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

A lost film that tells a story of Jirokichi, a notorious thief

This 1956 adaptation of the novel with the same title puts more focus on the characters and their interactions than the previous version.

The film recounts the tragedy of a young outlaw. Considered a lost film.

1946 Toho film directed by Kiyoshi Saeki

Young men endure challenging flight training in the Yokaren, a program feeding new pilots into the Army and Navy. By the time of the filming, the...

Thanks to a secret message hidden on the two sacred swords Kaen and Suien, the samurai Genji Kurô (Nakamura Kinnosuke) found the hidden...

A small community in wartime Japan learn how to make do with less.

As a result of illness and unemployment, Yamaoka Tatewaki, a "Hatamoto" (or direct vassal of the Shogun), pawned his family heirloom, a valuable Gosu...

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...

Kyoto in the third year of Bunkyu. --Serizawa Kamo, the head of the Shinsengumi, and the group around him spend their days and nights having fun in...

Bored Hatamoto film #16.

A lost film telling a story of Jirokichi the Rat, a notorious thief