Movies: Kōtarō Bandō

Japanese comedy film....

At the beginning of the Meiji era, three brothers of a samurai family each stand up to the times....

1962 Japanese movie...

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Jidaigeki by Tai Kato...

Japanese drama film, originally released in two parts....

1956 Japanese film, originally released in three parts....

1959 Shintoho adaptation of Kyoka Izumi's novel "A Woman's Pedigree"....

A Japanese drama featuring the one-eyed, one-armed swordsman...

Rampant ronin Matashiro Sasai, finds himself embroiled in serious unrest after he rescues a geisha who is being kidnapped by a group of ronin....

Set in the Edo-era, a smuggling vessel runs into conflict between the Matsumae clan and the Ainu in Hokkaido....

1959 Japanese film, originally released in two parts....

For the poor, Edo is Hell on Earth, starving under the rule of Tanuma Okitsugi, corrupt councilor to the shogun. But the courageous vagabond called “Kageboshi” (Shadow Avenger), will fight for the common folk, robbing the rich so the people will have...

Two cowardly palanquin carriers know the culprit of a murder but are too scared to report it to the police. In the mean time, an innocent man is arrested as the murderer and chaos ensues. Pre-war jidaigeki film....

1961 Japanese movie...

Second sequel to Saiyuki (1952)...

Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Wakai omawari-san" by Shiro Sone....

Hiromasa Nomura World War II era film...

Japanese drama film....

After the massacre of Christians at Shimabara, followers of Amakusa Shiro band together in a plot to overthrow the shogunate in order to exact revenge on the Tokugawa. At the same time there is a succession dispute in the Kuroda clan, as one faction ...