Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Yoshizaburo Arashi · Utaemon Ichikawa · Chojuro Kawarasaki · Tokusaburo Arashi

Synopsis Lord Asano resists a bribery attempt by a member of the Shogun's court. His honesty, however, is useless against the corruption of the administration, and he is forced to commit harakiri. His samurai retinue are dispersed as masterless ronin. The...

Direction Nobuo Nakagawa

Cast Utaemon Ichikawa · Kiku Hôjô · Shunji Sakai · Tosshô Sawamura

Direction Sadatsugu Matsuda

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

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 Harue Akagi · Ushio Akashi · Kensaku Hara · Utaemon Ichikawa

Synopsis Knightly Advice is an engrossing drama about political infighting in the early years of the Tokugawa Shogunate, based on a true historical incident in the year 1629. The conflict arises from inequality between the shogun's retainers (or knights) and the...

Direction Kazuo Mori

Cast Shinpachiro Asaka · Utaemon Ichikawa · Yaeko Kumoi · Wakako Kunitomo

Synopsis A cheerful period drama, sprinkled with comical scenes tells the story of a loyal and handsome Edo servant who fights to help his older brother marry the woman he loves.

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 Nobuo Nakagawa

Cast Utaemon Ichikawa · Yoshi Kato · Ryunosuke Tsukigata · Achako Hanabishi

Direction Ryo Hagiwara · Sadatsugu Matsuda

Cast Utaemon Ichikawa · Ryôsuke Kagawa · Eitarô Shindô · Ryunosuke Tsukigata

Direction Tai Kato

Cast Kusuo Abe · Minoru Chiaki · Susumu Fujita · Yumiko Hasegawa

Synopsis A traveling masterless samurai is asked by a daughter of an established samurai family to pretend they are a married couple, and gets involved in the troubles of the samurai clan.

Direction Daisuke Itô

Cast Tsumasaburo Bando · Utaemon Ichikawa · Isuzu Yamada · Kôkichi Takada

Synopsis During the 17th Century bands of hatamoto, samurai vassals of the Tokugawa shogunate, were causing havoc in the new capital city of Edo. Opposing them was Banzui-in Chobei,whose sole aim was to save Edo from the hatamoto as their violent...

Direction Teinosuke Kinugasa

Cast Kazuo Hasegawa · Juzaburo Bando · Utaemon Ichikawa · Sojin

Direction Sadatsugu Matsuda

Cast Hiromi Hanazono · Utaemon Ichikawa · Kinya Kitaoji · Satomi Oka

Synopsis Araki Mataemon finds himself in the middle of revenge between two samurai families on the Igagoe Road.

Direction Sadatsugu Matsuda

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

Direction Kazuo Mori

Cast Tokusaburo Arashi · Utaemon Ichikawa · Kôichi Katsuragi · Mitsusaburô Ramon

Direction Sadatsugu Matsuda

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

Direction Sadatsugu Matsuda

Cast Utaemon Ichikawa · Noriko Sengoku

Direction Yasushi Sasaki

Cast Utaemon Ichikawa · Chiyonosuke Azuma · Hibari Misora · Kusuo Abe

Synopsis Ryujin Misaki (Cape Dragon), located at the edge of the Genkai Sea, is known as an isolation ward for leprosy patients. When Saotome Mondonosuke, a master swordsman and 'Hatamoto,' direct retainer of the Shogun, hears news of a doctor gone...

Direction Sadatsugu Matsuda

Cast Chiezô Kataoka · Utaemon Ichikawa · Ryunosuke Tsukigata · Teruyo Asagumo

Direction Yasushi Sasaki

Cast Utaemon Ichikawa · Kinya Kitaoji · Akiko Santo · Hiroko Sakuramachi

Synopsis A troupe of Chinese acrobats go to Japan to help celebrate the building of a shrine. At the same time a series of mysterious assassinations take place. Master swordsman Saotome try to solve the puzzling crimes.