Movies

Another adaptation of Tange Sazen.

Japanese drama film.

1954 Japanese film starring professional wrestler Rikidozan.

Directed by Daisuke Itō.

Japanese romance film.

Kichigoro, a firefighter from the Maeda family of the Kaga Principality, rescues Oshimo, the younger sister of Jirokichi, a city firefighter from the...

The adventures of a young patriotic samurai. This is the Nikkatsu version of Shin Hasegawa's original story. Shochiku released their version of the...

Jurobei, a kaisen tonya (wholesaler in port) in Awa, was wronged and killed on the day of the Dance Festival by the evil merchant & the chamberlin....

Adaptation of the novel by Osaragi Jirō.

1946 Toho film directed by Kiyoshi Saeki

Prewar jidaigeki starring Denjiro Okochi

A typically modern take on the well-known Naniwabushi character (and real life 19th-century gangster) Mori no Ishimatsu, whose proverbial stupidity...

War-time jidaigeki by Eisuke Takizawa.

A lost film that tells a story of Jirokichi, a notorious thief

Based on the story of Shimizu no Jirocho.

Japanese film released to commemorate the 7th anniversary of Shintoho's founding.

Adaptation of the novel by Osaragi Jirō. Again scripted by the legendary Yamanaka Sadao

Japanese war movie