Thieves broke into Yamashiroya, a drug wholesaler, and stole 780 ryo. In the storehouse, there was a sticker with a picture of an umbrella, the signature of Yahei Kasayama, a great thief who once ransacked the entire Kanto region. Heizo Hasegawa (Kichiemon Nakamura), the director of the reform of the thieves, learns that the theft was the work of Yahei's son Yataro (Somegoro Ichikawa [now Koshiro Matsumoto]) and his gang, thanks to the help of a spy named Isaji (Koichi Miura). He learns that Yataro is in the process of marrying Oito (Tomoka Kurokawa), the daughter of Shigezo of Narumi, a great thief from Owari. Heizo learns the true identity of the thread and the evil plans of the second generation Narumi Shigezo (Fuse Hiroshi), and he meets Nagashima no Kugoro (Matsudaira Ken), a former thief who is trying to arrange a marriage deal to return the favor to the previous generation Kasayama and the previous generation Narumi. ) while hiding his identity...
A chance encounter on the road leads to the unusual need for a female bodyguard to protect the grand...
Edo is rocked by the news that a duel to the death is to be held at Takadanobaba, the famed site of ...
In the 14th year of the Genroku period, Asano, the head carpenter of Edo Castle, attacked Kira, the ...
Genichiro Okugawa is appointed as the head of accounting in a feudal domain and travels with his ser...
Master director Sadao Nakajima brings to life the adventures of Shohachi, a ronin (masterless samura...
Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice gam...
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...
Oda Nobunaga (1534–1582) was a major daimyo during the Warring State period of Japanese history. He ...
The main character, Baian Fujieda, is a dark hero who has two faces: one as a skilled acupuncturist ...
Iwane Sakazaki returns to his homeland and gets caught in the middle of an incident that results in ...
Even though Gennosuke and Oboro are from rival ninja villages, they are secretly in love. At an annu...
Genjiro was a samurai in the past, but he became a Yakuza, a dandy with a tattoo of red peonies, he ...
A humble page fathers a child by the daughter of a clan official and is banished. Years later, the c...
1953 jidaigeki directed by Nobuo Nakagawa of Jigoku and Ghost of Yotsuya fame.
Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersona...
A ronin named Azami Onijuro travels the Nikko Highway, he is being followed by the bounty hunter Dai...
The adventures of a blind, gambling masseur and master swordsman. Zatoichi targets a yakuza-controll...
Returning to the village where a year before he had killed Hirate, a much-admired opponent, Zatoichi...
In Edo, a group of masked samurai stormed a seafood wholesaler, killing the head clerk and robbing t...
Sabu, a low-ranking samurai, finds himself unable to apprehend the ruthless leader of a violent gang...