Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

Direction Yasushi Sasaki

Cast Minoru Chiaki · Tatsuya Ishiguro · Kusuo Abe · Shigemi Kitahara

Plot When a group of men from the Hanya clan search his town for a missing geisha, a brave ronin decides to help her and a drunken calligrapher. In doing so,...

Direction Sadatsugu Matsuda

Cast Chiezô Kataoka · Kinnosuke Nakamura · Ryunosuke Tsukigata · Eijirô Tono

Direction Teinosuke Kinugasa

Cast Kazuo Hasegawa · Juzaburo Bando · Utaemon Ichikawa · Sojin

Direction Santarô Marune

Cast Tsumasaburo Bando · Akihiko Katayama · Momoo Shimoto · Shinobu Araki

Plot Set in the late thirteenth century, Kakute kamikaze wa fuku (Thus Blew the Divine Wind, 1944) depicts an important historical event as the defense of southern Japan led by the...

Direction Shigehiro Ozawa

Cast Utaemon Ichikawa · Takeshi Katô · Kei Sato · Ryuuji Shinagawa

Direction Yasushi Sasaki

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

Direction Kazuo Mori

Cast Seishirô Hara · Utaemon Ichikawa · Tasaburo Matsumoto · Ryûko Matsudaira

Direction Yasushi Sasaki

Cast Chiezô Kataoka · Utaemon Ichikawa · Tomisaburô Wakayama · Kinnosuke Nakamura

Plot The tale of the battle between Boss Sukegoro of Iioka and Boss Shigezo of Sasagawa.

Direction Santarô Marune

Cast Utaemon Ichikawa · Shinobu Araki · Kensaku Hara · Daisuke Kato

Direction Tomiyasu Ikeda · Sentarô Shirai

Cast Kanzo Yoshii · Utaemon Ichikawa · Kusuo Abe · Seiji Taki

Direction Sadatsugu Matsuda

Cast Utaemon Ichikawa · Ryutaro Otomo · Chiyonosuke Azuma · Hashizo Okawa

Plot Several poor low-ranking samurai led by Katsukawa fight with their corrupted superior samurai Tatewaki and his followers. A lot of action, sword fighting and melodrama.

Direction Shigehiro Ozawa

Cast Utaemon Ichikawa · Kotaro Satomi · Ryôsuke Kagawa · Sonosuke Sawamura

Direction Sadatsugu Matsuda

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

Plot 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...

Direction Sadatsugu Matsuda

Cast Utaemon Ichikawa · Ryunosuke Tsukigata · Masahiko Sawamura · Ryôsuke Kagawa

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Isamu Kosugi · Kikue Môri · Ryunosuke Tsukigata · Kogiku Hanayagi

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Utaemon Ichikawa · Ryunosuke Tsukigata · Isuzu Yamada · Eitarô Shindô

Plot Written by one of cinema's greatest directors, Kurosawa, Tateshi Danpei is a story about the fight to keep the art of the samurai sword fighting scene alive in a Japan...