Cast: Ryutaro Otomo

Direction Nagisa Ôshima

Cast Hashizo Okawa · Ryutaro Otomo · Satomi Oka · Rentarô Mikuni

Plot In the year 1637 in Shimabara of Tokugawa-era Japan, oppressed peasant Christians revolt against the shogunate with the aid of a charismatic Christian rebel leader Shiro Amakusa.

Direction Eiichi Kudo

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

Plot 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...

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Yusaku Matsuda · Michiyo Oguso · Mariko Kaga · Katsuo Nakamura

Plot The fever-dream follow-up to his acclaimed "Zigeunerweisen", the enigmatically erotic "Kagero-Za" is the second film in Seijun Suzuki's Taishô Trilogy -- this time set in the disjointed cityscapes and surrounding...

Direction Eiichi Kudo

Cast Toru Abe · Mikijiro Hira · Yoshio Inaba · Choichiro Kawarazaki

Direction Hideo Gosha

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Keiko Awaji · Isao Kimura · Tetsurô Tanba

Plot Loyal samurai Samanosuke is attacked, mutilated, and left for dead while carrying out a mission for his clan. He recovers but has lost an eye and an arm. Taking a...

Direction Shigehiro Ozawa

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

Plot 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,...

Direction Sadatsugu Matsuda

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

Direction Shigehiro Ozawa

Cast Eiji Okada · Tomisaburô Wakayama · Shingo Yamashiro · Ryutaro Otomo

Plot During the middle of the Kanei Period (1624-1644) Japan was in the early stages of its most peaceful era. This left a large number of unemployed samurai with nothing to...

Direction Sadatsugu Matsuda

Cast Chiezô Kataoka · Teruyo Asagumo · Chizuru Kitagawa · Ryutaro Otomo

Direction Ryo Hagiwara

Cast Chiezô Kataoka · Michiyo Kogure · Isuzu Yamada · Tatsuya Ishiguro

Direction Yasushi Sasaki

Cast Chiyonosuke Azuma · Hibari Misora · Ryutaro Otomo · Michiko Ôe

Plot In one of Toei's best early period films famous actress Koharu, played by Misora Hibari in one of her strongest roles, becomes involved in the search for the Shogun's treasure....

Direction Sadatsugu Matsuda

Cast Chiezô Kataoka · Chizuru Kitagawa · Isamu Kosugi · Kuniko Miyake

Direction Kunio Watanabe

Cast Ryutaro Otomo · Tomisaburô Wakayama · Ryôsuke Kagawa · Kusuo Abe

Direction Sadatsugu Matsuda

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

Direction Ryo Hagiwara · Sadatsugu Matsuda

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

Direction Motohiro Torii

Cast Jûshirô Konoe · Ryutaro Otomo · Yuriko Mishima · Minoru Oki

Direction Sadatsugu Matsuda

Cast Ryutaro Otomo · Satomi Oka · Kikuko Hôjô · Shinobu Chihara

Direction Yasushi Sasaki

Cast Hashizo Okawa · Ryutaro Otomo · Chiezô Kataoka · Hibari Misora

Direction Kunio Watanabe

Cast Ryutaro Otomo · Tomisaburô Wakayama · Ryôsuke Kagawa · Kusuo Abe

Direction Sadatsugu Matsuda

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

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