Utaemon Ichikawa Movies

Period drama directed by Yasushi Sasaki.

Magistrate Ooka and a samurai fight against evil forces.

A spearman who had long admired the samurai rises up after learning of cruelty of the samurai class.

This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their...

This is the story of Gonpachi, a ronin who falls in love with the daughter of a man he had killed many years before.

A film adaptation of the story “Gonzo and Sukejū” from a new perspective.

Bored Hatamoto film #19

A swordsman must foil a minister's sinister plan to assassinate the shogun.

Saotome, a sword master and guard of the Shogunate, pursues the mystery of a deadly aerial weapon that is responsible for the multiple deaths in town.

A young lord lives against the will of his father Lord Tokugawa.

A maiden is murdered by a mysterious ninja, unfortunately two young ladies witness this, good thing the bored Lord is walking by, he saved the girls...

Bored Hatamoto film #20

Sugimoto Gonkuro is travelling along from Tosa to Edo. On his journey he will meet both good and bad people.