Kunitaro Sawamura Movies

The legendary tale of the forty-seven samurai who seek vengeance against the man who caused their master's death.

Final installment of the Okochi / Arai / Yamanaka Mito Komon series and just as good as the others (a good deal longer, as well). Again, this film...

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

Ryō Hagiwara movie

A film based on the life of the bakuto Kunisada Chuji

The film vividly shows the misadventures of Oishi Kuranosuke and the human dramas inside the castle, which lead to the surrender of Ako Castle after...

1929 Japanese movie

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

The time was the first year of Keio (1865). Upon hearing the news that the Imperial Army was approaching Hida Takayama, the district head Shimizu...

A story about Kinsaburo Kamiya, who infiltrated the Satsuma clan at the end of the Edo period. Based on the novel "Satsuma Hikyaku" by Jiro Daibutsu,...

Jirocho and his followers chase the Kurokomas into the Kai Province.

1951 Japanese movie. The characters of Mito Kōmon and Yaji and Kita are brought together

An adaptation of the famous novel by Jiromasa Gunji about the difficult story of Niiro Tsuruchiyo, the illegitimate son of the great elder of the...