Kunitaro Sawamura Movies

After being expelled from the Chiba Dojo , Hirate Zoshu , along with his acquaintances Tadaki Ganryu and Tamon Jubei, were hired as bodyguards by...

The rise of the famed gambler.

Bored Hatamoto movie #11

Tradition and modernity clash when a young woman inherits a sweet-making firm in Kyoto.

In Burma during the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier separated from his unit disguises himself as a Buddhist monk to escape imprisonment as a...

Jirocho and his followers chase the Kurokomas into the Kai Province.

O-Kiyo (Mitsuko Mito), who had escaped from her boss, Shoden, who controlled the Sensoji Temple district, was desperately contemplating suicide when...

film directed by Tai Katô

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

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

The legendary tale of the forty-seven samurai who seek vengeance against the man who caused their master's death.

A film about sumo wrestler Wakanohana Kanji I. He was nicknamed "Devil of the dohyo" due to his excellent fighting spirit and endurance.

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