Kan'emon Nakamura

Story of a bandit king part 2.

Release : 1937.02.20
Popularity : 0.178

Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money...

Release : 1965.01.06
Popularity : 8.273

Near the end of the nineteenth century, as the balance of power shifts from Shogunate towards the Emperor, Japan restlessly awaits the dawning of a...

Release : 1969.12.05
Popularity : 2.638

In 1701, Lord Takuminokami Asano has a feud with Lord Kira and he tries to kill Kira in the corridors of the Shogun's palace. The Shogun sentences...

Release : 1941.12.08
Popularity : 6.158

The first of five Musashi series, Shinobu and her brother Genichiro plead with the famous swordsman Musashi Miyamoto to teach them swordsmanship to...

Release : 1944.12.29
Popularity : 4.318

This suspense drama set in the mid 1700's depicts the plan of the Tokugawa rulers to send a number of homeless men to a remote island Sado to perform...

Release : 1963.01.27
Popularity : 1.221

A boy steals a knife from an old samurai, unaware of its value, setting off a strange chain of events.

Release : 1936.04.30
Popularity : 3.391

“19 vassals of Lord Hosokawa ask permission to commit harakiri with him, as a demonstration of their loyalty. Only Yaichiemon Abe is refused...

Release : 1938.03.01
Popularity : 0.628

Film about Japanese ghost story Banchō Sarayashiki.

Release : 1956.09.24
Popularity : 0.826

A group of teenagers grow up in Okinawa amid the protests and resistance against the presence of the American base in the island.

Release : 1970.05.26
Popularity : 0.926

The story takes place in feudal Japan, when any commerce with the rest of the world was strictly prohibited. An idealist suddenly appears in an...

Release : 1971.09.11
Popularity : 7.895

A jidaigeki film on Banzuiin Chōbei produced in 1940 and directed by Yasuki Chiba.

Release : 1940.05.29
Popularity : 1.588

In 1943, critical developments in the Pacific War have placed Japan at a disadvantage, although the fiery breaths of war hadn't yet reached Okinawa...

Release : 1968.09.21
Popularity : 1.528

About the struggles of day labourers to achieve dignity and a standard of living above the starvation level. Utilising the Zenshinza theatrical...

Release : 1951.07.04
Popularity : 0.405

A period film about a peasant revolt in the region near Mount Fuji, occasioned by high officials' depriving the farmers of their water rights.

Release : 1952.03.14
Popularity : 0.977

A war widow determined to clear the name of her disgraced husband, who was court-martialed for desertion and executed. Official records have been...

Release : 1972.03.12
Popularity : 1.76

A tragic period film about a gangster who comes out of prison and finds it hard to find a place again in society.

Release : 1935.11.01
Popularity : 0.12

A forceful indictment of the devastating effects of war and nationalistic fanaticism on the average man, who, in the face of the absurdity of...

Release : 1939.10.20
Popularity : 0.525

Sentaro is been severely beaten for his defiance of the government and the high taxes during a time of famine. He is befriended by Kada Gentaro, a...

Release : 1969.11.15
Popularity : 0.525

Kansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea. He enters the service of Takeda, the lord of Kai domain. He...

Release : 1969.03.01
Popularity : 4.277

Story of a bandit king.

Release : 1937.02.11
Popularity : 0.927

In a slum in Edo Japan, a ronin hopes that his deceased father's former master will hire him while a disgraced hairdresser attempts to regain his...

Release : 1937.08.25
Popularity : 6.77

The year is 1936. Ōhinata-mura was a very poor village between deep valleys. Soncho, the village head is trying to collect the village taxes from...

Release : 1940.10.30
Popularity : 0.562