Utaemon Ichikawa Movies

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...

1945 Japanese movie

Bored Hatamoto movie #11

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...

Bored Hatamoto film #20

Master swordsman and loya 'Hatamoto' (direct vassal to the Shogun), Saotome Mondonosuke, is sent to investigate an intrigue centering on the Date...

Jida-geki by Santaro Marune.

Period drama directed by Yasushi Sasaki.

The success story of a group of ronin who fights against traffickers during the Edo Tenpo period.

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...

Bored Hatamoto film #10

Bored Hatamoto film #17

Period drama directed by Yasushi Sasaki.

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...

Bored Hatamoto film #8

The story concerns the efforts of seven master swordsman who join together to protect the new inexperienced Shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune from the evil...