Screenplay: Mitsuzô Sasaki

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


Nazo no yurei-sen

1956 · Movie · 90 min. · Japan

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Bored Hatamoto: The Mysterious Cape

1963 · Movie · 89 min. · Japan

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...

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Bored Hatamoto

1958 · Movie · 108 min. · Japan

Direction Sadatsugu Matsuda

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

Synopsis 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 series of mysterious assassinations take place with a strange and...

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Direction Sadatsugu Matsuda

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

Synopsis 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 the shogunate. In this exciting entry in the series, a...

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