Kodayu Ichikawa Movies

During the 17th Century roving bands of hatamoto were causing trouble in the new capital city of Edo and constantly fought with the townspeople at...

The final film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass.

Townsend Harris is sent by President Pierce to Japan to serve as the first U.S. Consul-General to that country. Harris discovers enormous hostility...

1956 Daiei movie

Kinnosuke of Toyama sets out on a private mission to clear his father’s name for a crime he did not commit.

Chubei, the adopted son of an Osaka courier, falls desperately in love with the courtesan Umegawa. To prevent a wealthy client from purchasing her,...

A film about the Ghost of Okiku that's based on the kabuki play Bancho Sarayashiki.

Machiko Ujiie and Haruki Atomiya first meet and fall in love on Ginza’s Sukiyabashi Bridge during the Great Tokyo Air Raid in March 1945....

A girl from a tenement house was abducted in broad daylight, right in the heart of Edo.

Detective Umon investigates a wave of counterfeit money in Edo linked to the murder of a mint official. His search leads him to a mysterious...

One of the great stories from Japan’s rich history comes to life in this true tale of the bloody showdown between two rival yakuza gangs in the...