Screenplay: Daisuke Itô

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Daisuke Itô. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.

Titles found: 34

An Actor's Revenge (Yukinojo's Revenge)

1963 · Movie · 113 min. · Japan

Drama Stage Play

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Kazuo Hasegawa · Fujiko Yamamoto · Ayako Wakao · Eiji Funakoshi

Plot In 1836, in Tokugawa Japan, Yukinojo (Kazuo Hasegawa), a Kabuki actor specializing in female roles, arrives with his troupe in Edo. There he sets in motion a complex plot designed...

6.6

196 votes

6.6

196 votes

Zatoichi and the Chess Expert

1965 · Movie · 87 min. · Japan

Action Drama Feudal Japan Samurai Sequel

Direction Kenji Misumi

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Mikio Narita · Chizu Hayashi · Kaneko Iwasaki

6.5

57 votes

6.5

57 votes

Poppies

1935 · Movie · 72 min. · Japan

Drama

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Yukichi Iwata · Kasuke Koizumi · Kuniko Miyake · Daijirô Natsukawa

6.5

72 votes

6.5

72 votes

Jirokichi the Rat

1931 · Movie · 70 min. · Japan

Action Drama Silent Film

Direction Daisuke Itô

Cast Naoe Fushimi · Nobuko Fushimi · Reisaburo Yamamoto · Minoru Takase

6.0

36 votes

6.0

36 votes

Life of a Meiji Woman

1955 · Movie · 111 min. · Japan

Drama

Direction Daisuke Itô

Cast Michiyo Kogure · Jun Tazaki · Haruko Sugimura · Yataro Kitagami

Plot The tragedy of the geiko girl Ume and the men who try to pursue her.

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The Woman and the Pirate

1959 · Movie · 90 min. · Japan

Action Romance

Direction Daisuke Itô

Cast Kazuo Hasegawa · Machiko Kyô · Isao Kimura · Emiko Aya

Plot Kyo Machiko and Hasegawa Kazuo star (as the respective title roles) in this exciting jidai-geki about a woman and a pirate.

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Zanjin zanbaken

1929 · Movie · 125 min. · Japan

Drama Feudal Japan

Direction Daisuke Itô

Cast Ryunosuke Tsukigata · Hiroshi Kaneko · Misao Seki · Sôemon Wada

Plot In medieval Japan, a brutal and corrupt magistrate is planning to kill the child who is about to become the heir to the estate and position of the local lord...

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Jigoku bana

1957 · Movie · 99 min. · Japan

Drama

Direction Daisuke Itô

Cast Yoichi Funaki · Kazuko Ichikawa · Tatsuya Ishiguro · Ryôsuke Kagawa

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Juan Arima's Surprise Attack

1959 · Movie · 114 min. · Japan

Drama

Direction Daisuke Itô

Cast Minosuke Bando · Toshio Chiba · Yoichi Funaki · Seishirô Hara

Plot War-time jidai-geki from Ito Daisuke.

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Yosaburo

1960 · Movie · 94 min. · Japan

Action

Direction Daisuke Itô

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Tamao Nakamura · Eitarô Ozawa

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Shinken shôbu

1971 · Movie · 75 min. · Japan

Action Drama

Direction Tomu Uchida

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Rentarô Mikuni · Teruo Matsuyama · Hideko Okiyama

Plot In the retelling of the story of the legendary Japanese swordsman Miyamoto Musashi, the story takes the wanderer into a conflict with a chain and sickle wielding adversary who cannot...

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Miyamoto Musashi: Duel at Kongoin Temple

1943 · Movie · 91 min. · Japan

Action Drama Biography Samurai Feudal Japan

Direction Daisuke Itô

Cast Chiezô Kataoka · Katsuhiko Sawa · Chieko Soma · Ryôsuke Kagawa

Plot From the deepest archives of Japanese film history comes this superbly restored edition of one of the epic adventures of Miyamoto Musashi, the greatest swordsman in all the land. Known...

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Conspirator

1961 · Movie · 110 min. · Japan

Action Drama Samurai

Direction Daisuke Itô

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Haruko Sugimura · Chiyonosuke Azuma · Kaneko Iwasaki

Plot Two hostile clans had reached an artificial reconciliation which involves the marriage of a person from each family. The boy's father is away to serve the emperor, and his highly...

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