Ryōsuke Kagawa Movies

Second in the Nage Utasamon series

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

Chiba Sōsaku, whose childhood name was Otome, was raised by his father Yukiuemon, the successor of the Hokushin Ittō-ryū style, and...

“Dokuro sen” (The Skull Coin) is the first film adaptation of the popular novel by Kikuo Sumita. The story evolves around the seven...

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

Young Sentaro struggles to avenge the murder of his younger sister Osuga and their father.

The serial killing of a samurai each night by strangulation at various temples confounds investigators and brings a chill to the residents of Edo....

Hiroshi Inagaki's first movie.

This gripping historical drama depicts a clash of swordsmen, secret government spies, mysterious thieves, robbers and roving samurai who want to take...

1958 Japanese movie

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

Period drama directed by Yasushi Sasaki.

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

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

The film tells about a young detective Zenigata Heiji who successfully solves a disgusting and unusual case involving the manufacture of counterfeit...

Three young yakuza, Fujitaro, Matsugoro and Kanjuro, travel the country fighting evil.