Cast: Keiko Okawa

Direction Eiichi Kudo

Cast Junko Miyazono · Koji Nambara · Isao Natsuyagi · Kô Nishimura

Synopsis It is the early 19th century in Japan. Nariatsu, a high ranking official and son of the former Shogun, is engaged in an animal hunt. In his reckless pursuit of the game, he crosses borders to a neighboring fief and...

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 Sadatsugu Matsuda

Cast Ryôsuke Kagawa · Masao Mishima · Ryunosuke Tsukigata · Tomisaburô Wakayama

Direction Tai Kato

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Satomi Oka · Kasho Nakamura · Keiko Okawa

Synopsis Thanks to a secret message hidden on the two sacred swords Kaen and Suien, the samurai Genji Kurô (Nakamura Kinnosuke) found the hidden treasure of Lord Yoshitsune. When he gives a piece of the treasure to a couple of poor...

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Harue Akagi · Koji Arima · Chikage Awashima · Chiyonosuke Azuma

Synopsis Samurai Kochiyama Soshun helps Kaneko Ichinosuke avenge the death of Kaneko’s father who was wrongly accused of embezzling, hoping that in return Kaneko takes geisha Michitose, the presumed sister of his friend Moritaya, under his wing.

Direction Sadatsugu Matsuda

Cast Chiyonosuke Azuma · Minoru Chiaki · Sentarô Fushimi · Utaemon Ichikawa

Synopsis In 1691 there are a series of fires in several towns across Japan. When there's also a fire in Kyoto, the Shogun's uncle - the Elder Lord of Mito - sets out to discover who's behind the arson, and stopping...

Direction Sadatsugu Matsuda

Cast Michiyo Kogure · Katsuo Nakamura · Kotaro Satomi · Eitarô Shindô

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Sumiko Hidaka · Yûnosuke Itô · Kunio Kaga · Eijirô Kataoka

Synopsis An enclave of Heike descendants has lived on a mountain in isolation for centuries and is reputed to abduct young women from surrounding communities for human sacrifice, but their real objective is to bring in new wives to expand their...

Direction Tai Kato

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

Synopsis 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 society. Even so, he grows up determined to reunite with...

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Kusuo Abe · Kunio Kaga · Chizuru Kitagawa · Masao Mishima

Synopsis Sanshiro is an affable ronin turned schoolteacher in a poor section of Edo. He takes in a boy called Sankichi as his servant and assistance, not realizing that Sankichi is actually a girl named Namino who fled her wealthy family...

Direction Yasushi Sasaki

Cast Tatsuya Ishiguro · Sonosuke Sawamura · Hisako Tsukuba · Tomisaburô Wakayama

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Keiko Okawa · Hiromi Hanazono · Kotaro Satomi · Shunji Sakai

Direction Shigehiro Ozawa

Cast Ryutaro Otomo · Hashizo Okawa · Satomi Oka · Keiko Okawa

Synopsis Detective Umon's services are called upon when each night a samurai ends up dead by strangulation at various temples in Edo.

Direction Yasushi Sasaki

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Kusuo Abe · Kensaku Hara · Michimaro Kotabe

Direction Yasushi Sasaki

Cast Chiezô Kataoka · Tomisaburô Wakayama · Yataro Kurokawa · Sentarô Fushimi

Direction Yasushi Sasaki

Cast Utaemon Ichikawa · Ryunosuke Tsukigata · Akiko Santo · Kinya Kitaoji

Direction Shigehiro Ozawa

Cast Ken Takakura · Mayumi Fujisato · Yuriko Hanabusa · Isao Yamagata

Direction Kinnosuke Fukada

Cast Ryunosuke Tsukigata · Keiko Okawa · Yachiyo Kirishima · Sumiko Suzuki

Synopsis Go master Matashichiro Ryuzoji, during the game, was killed in anger by the Lord of the Nabeshima clan, Hizen-no-kami. The mother of the murdered Matashichiro, Akishino, cursing the Nabeshima family, commits suicide. Akishino’s spirit passes to Matashichiro’s beloved cat, and...

Direction Yasushi Sasaki

Cast Hibari Misora · Tomisaburô Wakayama · Keiko Okawa · Eiko Maruyama

Synopsis Kichiza searches for her missing brother and the person responsible for the death of their parents.

Direction Sadatsugu Matsuda

Cast Utaemon Ichikawa · Sô Yamamura · Kotaro Satomi · Isao Yamagata

Synopsis As a hatamoto (direct retainer of the shogun) Saotome Mondonosuke has a crescent scar on his forehead, which is a license to go above the law in order to protect the shogunate. In this exciting entry in the series, a...