Reizaburo Yamamoto Movies

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

Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki

1947 Japanese movie

Director Hiroshi Inagaki's early version of the life and death of famed swordsman Sasaki Kojiro. Otani Tomoemon gives a brilliant performance as...

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....

Tomotaka Tasaka's A Pebble by the Wayside (Robo no Ishi), made in 1938 and taken from a Yuzo Yamamoto novel, takes place around 1902, was about a...

Fourth film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka

Hanakosan (1943, TOHO, MAKINO Masahiro), a thoroughly light and joyful musical comedy, influenced by Busby Berkeley films, against the national...

1942 adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's novel.

A continuation of the prior film (影法師).

A romantic melodrama about the shifting relationship between Ryosuke and Miki as their precarious employment and social circumstances shift around...

During the 17th Century roving bands of hatamoto were causing trouble in the new capital city of Edo and constantly fought with the townspeople at...

On the night the shogunate's treasury was breached, the guard Utsugi had already been taken down. His colleague Ryunosuke felt responsible and...

A village struggles to survive when the nearby lake becomes barren of fish.

1962 Japanese movie. Remake of Mori's 1942 original movie