Mansaku Itami Movies

An adventurer and two accomplices unexpectedly invite themselves to a sword tournament and are offered a job with the lord who organized the...

Directed by Mansaku Itami.

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...

Directed by Daisuke Itō.

Chiezo Kataoka plays a cowardly samurai, whose honor is on the line when it becomes necessary to avenge the murder of his father. The culminating...

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

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A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly.

A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly.

A samurai is ordered by his lord to go to Edo and investigate the truth behind the rumor of a rebellion against him.

Hiroshi Inagaki's first movie.

1950 Japanese movie

Japanese adaptation of LES MISERABLES. The last film of director Itami took inspiration from Les Miserables. Transpiring during the Southwestern War...

The film centres around a group of schoolchildren navigating the complexities of friendship, trust, and honesty. At its heart is a thoughtful and...

In the midst of the depression, two ronin rack their brains to come up with a dishonest scheme. Taking a man from the countryside, they fashion him...

Remake of classic samurai film of 1932

Set in a rural area of Shinshu, a drama in which a woman who graduated from a women's college in Tokyo with her brother's efforts opens up a new life...

A movie directed by Nobuo Nakagawa