Utaemon Ichikawa Movies

A young lord lives against the will of his father Lord Tokugawa.

This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their...

This 1956 adaptation of the novel with the same title puts more focus on the characters and their interactions than the previous version.

Period drama directed by Yasushi Sasaki.

Maeda Tsunanori, the lord of Kaga Domain, had two young princes - Katsumaru, the son of his legitimate wife, who died, and Yasunosuke, the son of his...

During the ultra-violent era of the downfall of the Tokugawa Shogunate one man rose above the rest with his ideas of how to overthrow the corrupt...

Four thousand gold coins were stolen from the vault of Nijo Castle in Kyoto, which were collected as a tax to the shogun. The guard of Nijo castle...

A swordsman must foil a minister's sinister plan to assassinate the shogun.