Cast: Denjirô Ôkôchi

Direction Sadao Yamanaka

Cast Denjirô Ôkôchi · Kiyozo · Kunitaro Sawamura · Reisaburo Yamamoto

Synopsis The Yagyu family's elder son sends an old and cheap looking pot to his young brother, ignoring that the pot contains a map showing where it was hidden a treasure of a million ryo. He tries to recover it but...

Direction Kôzaburô Yoshimura

Cast Kazuo Hasegawa · Michiyo Kogure · Machiko Kyô · Nobuko Otowa

Synopsis Based on the classic novel by Murasaki Shikibu, written over 1000 years ago. Genji, the son of the emperor, has gained renown among the nobility of Kyoto for his charm and good looks, yet he cannot stop himself from pursuing...

Direction Hiroshi Shimizu

Cast Koume Akasaka · Hiroshi Ayukawa · Shinichi Himori · Moriichi Kawabe

Synopsis Saheita, the final heir of a once rich and respectable family, can’t refuse the many villagers that come to him for favours and money, even though he is on the brink of bankruptcy. Around town he is better known by...

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Koji Tsuruta · Yoshiko Kuga · Mariko Okada

Synopsis In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which, if revealed, would cause revolution and disaster for the clan. The information is divided among the three scrolls, all of which must...

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Setsuko Hara · Susumu Fujita · Denjirô Ôkôchi · Haruko Sugimura

Synopsis Yukie, the well-bred daughter of a university professor, is shocked when her father is relieved of his post for his political teachings, and even more so when her lover, one of her father's students, is arrested, then executed as a...

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Denjirô Ôkôchi · Susumu Fujita · Takashi Shimura · Kenichi Enomoto

Synopsis Kurosawa's widely acclaimed master-piece was something of a last-minute affair, made after his plans to direct a lavish costume picture fel through and using its sets, costumes and actors. The result is based on a Kabuki piece entitled Kanjincho and...

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Denjirô Ôkôchi · Susumu Fujita · Yukiko Todoroki · Ryunosuke Tsukigata

Synopsis Sanshiro, a strong stubborn youth, comes to the city to apprentice at a jujitsu school. His first night, he sees Yano in action, a master of judo, a more spiritual art, and he begs to be Yano's student. As the...

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Koji Tsuruta · Toshirô Mifune · Nobuko Otowa · Yoshiko Kuga

Synopsis In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which, if revealed, would cause revolution and disaster for the clan. The information is divided among the three scrolls, all of which must...

Direction Akira Kurosawa

Cast Denjirô Ôkôchi · Susumu Fujita · Ryunosuke Tsukigata · Akitake Kôno

Synopsis In this government-suggested sequel, Sugata again grows as a judo master, and demonstrates his (and by extension, all Japanese) superiority to the foreign warrior.

Direction Shigehiro Ozawa

Cast Mikijiro Hira · Ryôsuke Kagawa · Michiyo Kogure · Jûshirô Konoe

Synopsis Fifteen years after Ishida Mitsunari lost in the battle of Sekigahara, Tokugawa Ieyasu foresees his unavoidable battle with Toyotomi Hideyori and goes into Fushimi Castle. At the night, Hattori Hanzo, the leader of 36 Iga members who were performing as...

Direction Yasuki Chiba

Cast Hideko Takamine · Denjirô Ôkôchi · Takako Irie · Seizaburô Kawazu

Direction Sadatsugu Matsuda

Cast Kotaro Satomi · Satomi Oka · Masao Mishima · Takamaru Sasaki

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Daisuke Kato · Denjirô Ôkôchi · Yumeko Aizome · Tsumasaburo Bando

Direction Kunio Watanabe

Cast Susumu Fujita · Akira Nakamura · Yataro Kurokawa · Chizuko Nogami

Direction Teinosuke Kinugasa

Cast Shinobu Araki · Denjirô Ôkôchi · Yukiko Todoroki · Kazuo Hasegawa

Direction Sadatsugu Matsuda

Cast Hashizo Okawa · Minoru Chiaki · Mikijiro Hira · Ryuji Kita

Direction Ishirô Honda

Cast Denjirô Ôkôchi · Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi · Masao Shimizu · Eijirô Yanagi

Synopsis Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war with the United States. He opposes the attack on Pearl Harbor, but overruled, leads his forces...

Direction Teinosuke Kinugasa

Cast Kazuo Hasegawa · Machiko Kyô · Raizô Ichikawa · Ayako Wakao

Direction Kunio Watanabe

Cast Denjirô Ôkôchi · Ranko Hanai · Setsuko Hara · Hikaru Hoshi

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Denjirô Ôkôchi · Mitsuko Mito · Chieko Naniwa · Haruo Tanaka