Shunji Sakai Movies

A story of young people in the immediate aftermath of World War II, their post-war careers, sorrows, and triumphs.

Christian converts face persecution in the feudal society of 17th century Japan.

Featuring some of the finest swordsmen ever to grace the silver screen, this Toei classic tells the story of a battle between the evil sword style...

1957 Japanese movie

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...

Five swordsmen are murdered and hung from a tree and the chase is on to find the killers. Two magistrates pursue the leads to solve the crime and it...

A fellow member of the company named Hanjiro tells Koharu, an actress in a traveling theatrical troupe, about a keepsake folding fan that his lost...

The second of two films based on the novel by Futaro Yamada.

Minako, a runaway from Osaka chasing her dream of becoming a singer, struggles through poverty, failed jobs, and exploitation in Tokyo. With the help...

Magistrate Ooka-Echizen faces a crime over a pillbox.

Bored Hatamoto movie #29

1958 Mito Kōmon film.

The story of a ghostly thief in Edo who calls himself the fireball guy.

Saito Torajiro directed this light comic musical about the lives and loves of three cheerful, lively young men on the R University Rugby Club, Toshio...

Bored Hatamoto film #19

Umon’s services are called upon when innocent bystanders, Kayo and Minokichi, along with the ronin, Gontaro are mistakenly identified as...