Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

Direction Sentarô Shirai

Cast Utaemon Ichikawa · Kokuten Kôdô · Ritsuko Niizuma

Plot A rare film which depicts the tragic fate of a Christian lord who fought for his fate in the Edo period. Of note is Utaemon Ichikawa's extraordinary memorable final scenes...

Direction Yasushi Sasaki

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

Direction Kazuo Mori

Cast Utaemon Ichikawa · Mitsusaburô Ramon · Hiroshi Ueda · Eijirô Kataoka

Direction Teinosuke Kinugasa

Cast Kazuo Hasegawa · Juzaburo Bando · Utaemon Ichikawa · Sojin

Direction Sadatsugu Matsuda

Cast Utaemon Ichikawa · Chiezô Kataoka · Michiyo Kogure · Hibari Misora

Direction Sadatsugu Matsuda · Kazuo Mori

Cast Chiezô Kataoka · Utaemon Ichikawa · Haruko Sugimura · Ryunosuke Tsukigata

Direction Hideaki Onishi

Cast Utaemon Ichikawa · Chiezô Kataoka · Kotaro Satomi · Hiroko Sakuramachi

Plot Kataoka Chiezo stars as Murasaki Zukin, a mysterious hero of the people who helps those in need. Now under the rule of the evil Tanuma, the people look to Murasaki...

Direction Kokichi Uchide

Cast Hiroshi Aoyama · Masao Aoyama · Michiyo Azuma · Rintarô Fujima

Plot During the ultra-violent era of the downfall of the Tokugawa Shogunate one man rose above the rest with his ideas of how to overthrow the corrupt government and end the...

Direction Yasushi Sasaki

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

Direction Santarô Marune

Cast Utaemon Ichikawa · Seizaburô Kawazu · Mitsusaburô Ramon · Minoru Takada

Direction Sadatsugu Matsuda

Cast Utaemon Ichikawa · Ryôsuke Kagawa · Masao Mishima · Eitarô Shindô

Direction Nobuo Nakagawa

Cast Utaemon Ichikawa · Kusuo Abe · Kogiku Hanayagi · Hiromi Hanazono

Plot 1716, Yoshimune becomes the 8th Shogun as high Shogunate officials are attacked. While the government tries to keep these incidents under wraps, they must take any means possible to get...

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Daisuke Kato · Eitarô Ozawa · Eitarô Shindô · Isuzu Yamada

Direction Sadatsugu Matsuda

Cast Utaemon Ichikawa · Kinnosuke Nakamura · Yumiko Hasegawa · Kunio Kaga

Plot This is a fairly typical revenge chambara with a bit of Romeo and Juliet mixed in. Utaemon Ichikawa stars as Satahiko, the chief of the Hayato peasant clan. The Hayato...

Direction Shigehiro Ozawa

Cast Utaemon Ichikawa · Kotaro Satomi · Hiromi Hanazono · Yumiko Hasegawa

Direction Sadatsugu Matsuda

Cast Chiezô Kataoka · Chiyonosuke Azuma · Hashizo Okawa · Kinnosuke Nakamura

Plot Ninkyo Tokaido is another great story of Yamamoto Chogoro/Jirocho (Chiezo Kataoka), the biggest gambling boss on the Tokaido Highway. When the uncle of Seneimon (Hashizo Okawa) is slain by a...

Direction Sadatsugu Matsuda

Cast Utaemon Ichikawa · Isamu Kosugi · Masao Mishima · Koji Arima

Direction Sadatsugu Matsuda

Cast Utaemon Ichikawa · Chiyonosuke Azuma · Hashizo Okawa · Kinnosuke Nakamura

Plot During the reign of 5th Shogun Tokugawa Tsuneyoshi a troupe of Chinese acrobats travel to Japan to help celebrate the building of the Yushima Shrine. At the same time a...

Direction Santarô Marune

Cast Ryôsuke Kagawa · Akira Shimizu · Yumeko Aizome · Ryonosuke Azuma

Direction Sadatsugu Matsuda · Kazuo Mori

Cast Chiezô Kataoka · Haruyo Ichikawa · Utaemon Ichikawa · Haruko Sugimura