Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

Direction Tadashi Sawashima

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Tatsuya Nakadai · Hiroki Matsukata · Hiroko Sakuramachi

Plot This anthology tells three separate stories, all about yakuza (Japan's gangsters) in the feudal period. In the first, Sentaro, a roaming yakuza, seeks sanctuary with a gang which then asks...

Direction Tomu Uchida

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Rentarô Mikuni · Teruo Matsuyama · Hideko Okiyama

Plot In the retelling of the story of the legendary Japanese swordsman Miyamoto Musashi, the story takes the wanderer into a conflict with a chain and sickle wielding adversary who cannot...

Direction Tadashi Imai

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Takahiro Tamura · Tetsurô Tanba · Yoshi Kato

Plot Shinpachi, a poor samurai with no prospects, gets in an argument with Magodayu, a high-ranking officer, resulting in an illegal duel and Magodayu's death. To save face for both familes,...

Direction Tomikazu Miyata

Cast Tsumasaburo Bando · Naminosuke Horikawa · Ryûsui Iwami · Saburô Kojima

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Hibari Misora · Katsuo Nakamura · Ryunosuke Tsukigata

Plot Young lord Genjiro, who abandoned his castle to live as a commoner in Edo, returns home to resotre peace amidst disruption over an inheritance dispute. Warned by a fortune-teller that...

Direction Tomu Uchida

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Akiko Kazami · Wakaba Irie · Isao Kimura

Plot First episode of the Miyamoto Musashi saga directed by Tomu Uchida. In this episode, we are introduced to Takezo, what Musashi used to be before he became the man of...

Direction Yasushi Sasaki

Cast Ryunosuke Tsukigata · Chiyonosuke Azuma · Mitsugorô Bandô · Shinobu Chihara

Direction Sadatsugu Matsuda

Cast Chiezô Kataoka · Hibari Misora · Utaemon Ichikawa · Naoko Kubo

Direction Tomotaka Tasaka

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Chiemi Eri · Katsuo Nakamura · Hiroko Sakuramachi

Plot A carpenter, Shigetsugu, learns a lesson of love and humanity from five orphaned children and an affectionate woman named Oritsu. The warm friendship that grows between the carpenter.

Direction Daisuke Itô

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Haruko Sugimura · Chiyonosuke Azuma · Kaneko Iwasaki

Plot Two hostile clans had reached an artificial reconciliation which involves the marriage of a person from each family. The boy's father is away to serve the emperor, and his highly...

Direction Kosaku Yamashita

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Kei Sato · Ryunosuke Tsukigata · Takahiro Tamura

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Ryôsuke Kagawa · Ryuji Kita · Sonosuke Sawamura · Haruo Tanaka

Direction Yasushi Sasaki

Cast Eitarô Shindô · Ryunosuke Tsukigata · Denjirô Ôkôchi · Chiyonosuke Azuma

Direction Daisuke Itô

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Kinya Kitaoji · Takahiro Tamura · Kei Yamamoto

Plot From one of the most important forces in Japanese filmmaking, Ito Daisuke, comes the biography of the greatest Warlord in Japan’s history. Tokugawa Ieyasu was a brilliant general who rose...

Direction Tai Kato

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Hiroki Matsukata · Michiyo Kogure · Keiko Okawa

Plot The protagonist Chujiro, who possesses many attractive qualities, is a victim of unkind circumstances: his mother abandoned him as a child, so he had no choice but to live outside...

Direction Toshikazu Kôno

Cast Shinobu Araki · Teruyo Asagumo · Chiyonosuke Azuma · Shinobu Chihara

Direction Tomu Uchida

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Wakaba Irie · Isao Kimura · Chieko Naniwa

Direction Sadatsugu Matsuda

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Ryutaro Otomo · Katsuhide Itô · Denjirô Ôkôchi

Direction Tai Kato

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Kiyoshi Atsumi · Junko Ikeuchi · Jiro Okazaki

Plot Tokijiro has the unfortunate ‘giri’ (duty) according to the code of the gamblers to join in the fighting when afforded a night’s stay and meals at the home of a...

Direction Kei Kumai

Cast Eiji Okuda · Toshirô Mifune · Kinnosuke Nakamura · Go Kato

Plot Years after the death of legendary tea master Rikyu, his disciple Honkakubo attempts to resolve the mystery of the master's death. Years before: Sen Rikyu is a ceremonial tea master...