Utaemon Ichikawa Movies

In 1691 a terrible fire broke out in Denmacho, Yotsuya, burning down the towns around it, up to the shores of Shibaura. A month and a half later,...

A spearman who had long admired the samurai rises up after learning of cruelty of the samurai class.

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...

Master swordsman and loyal vassal Saotome Mondonosuke goes on a mission to find a missing princess.

Jidaigeki film from 1960

A film adaptation of the story “Gonzo and Sukejū” from a new perspective.

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

Directed by Daisuke Ito.

Bright samurai movie innovatively adapted from a classic story. A traveling masterless samurai is asked by a daughter of an established samurai...

1716, Yoshimune becomes the 8th Shogun as high Shogunate officials are attacked. While the government tries to keep these incidents under wraps, they...

A story of an orphan boy who wanted the love of parents so badly, another orphan sincerely pitied him to the point he gives his secret birthright as...

In the mist of the warring age (Sengoku Era), the Kyushu based Hayato Clan is faced with a monumental battle to determine their survival.