Kōtarō Bandō Movies

The Opium War is a 1943 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Masahiro Makino. "Ahen senso" in Japan refers to the First Opium War. The story of...

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...

A kabuki actress is murdered. Her pet cat laps its mistress's blood and becomes a demon possessed by the vengeful murder victim.

Japanese comedy film.

A Japanese drama featuring the one-eyed, one-armed swordsman

Japanese drama film, originally released in two parts.

The Siege of Osaka

A popular work depicting Osen Taruya, with the theme of romantic liberation.

For the poor, Edo is Hell on Earth, starving under the rule of Tanuma Okitsugi, corrupt councilor to the shogun. But the courageous vagabond called...

Young girl Kichiza searches for her missing brother and the person responsible for the death of her parents.

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...

Sakura Ondo was a sound adaptation based on a popular 1934 song, produced at the Shochiku Kamata Studio as part of a five-studio competition to...

1959 Japanese film.

The story of legendary Korean-Japanese wrestler Rikidozan.

At the beginning of the Meiji era, three brothers of a samurai family each stand up to the times.

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...

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...

1962 Japanese movie