Utaemon Ichikawa Movies

Bored Hatamoto film #8

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

Adaptation of the Riichi Yokomitsu novel.

Saotome, a sword master and guard of the Shogunate, pursues the mystery of a deadly aerial weapon that is responsible for the multiple deaths in town.

This is the story of Gonpachi, a ronin who falls in love with the daughter of a man he had killed many years before.

Set against the backdrop of the Great Fire of Edo, this story depicts the conflict between the town fire brigades and the daimyo’s fire...

Around the Genroku era, there was a man named Saotome Shusui-no-Suke, nephew to the senior councilor Matsudaira Sakon Shogen. He was commonly known...

Marune Santaro directed this actionner about two fearless Kobe Harbor Patrol Officers who fight to keep the city safe from the dreaded Crimson Z...

Gotō Matabei is the most able and fierce samurai of the Kuroda clan. However, he gradually dislikes the ruthless personality of Kuroda Nagamasa...

Bored Hatamoto film #10

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

Set in the late thirteenth century, this film depicts the defense of southern Japan led by the Kono clan against the Mongol invasion in 1281.

During the Warring States period, immediately after Hideyoshi Hashiba defeated Mitsuhide Akechi at the Battle of Yamazaki, in the village of Ogurisu...

Bored Hatamoto film #4

Depicting Katsu Kaishu's youth.

Bored Hatamoto movie #14

Bored Hatamoto film #7