Ryōsuke Kagawa Movies

There is an inn named Asano Ya in the port town, and a beautiful woman works there. Every year, during a local festival, travelling artists and...

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...

Film directed by Kenji Misumi.

This is Kanjûrô Arashi's first film with Nikkatsu after his independent production company went bankrupt (many of these independent...

Directed by Mansaku Itami.

The first film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass.

Set in the middle of the Edo period (1603-1867), this tragic love story takes its cue from a celebrated historical case tried by magistrate Tadasuke...

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

A princess in disguise, Oshichi launches an investigation to reveal the truth about the disappearance of young women in Edo.

Ito Daisuke's wartime retelling of the Miyamoto Musashi story.

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

A small-town boy with a learning disability attempts to fit in with his classmates.

Date Mosui, a young samurai, one day gets a scolding from a nameless ronin that sets him thinking about what life is all about and his ways of...

Early Japanese three-part samurai / fantasy serial.

In old Edo, Kakunojo (Chiezo), a dandy about town, falls in love with Oichi (Isuzu Yamada), whose merchant family is much beyond Kakunojo's status....