Kyōichi Hara Movies

Tragicomic road movie set during the Edo period. It follows a samurai, his two servants – including spear-carrier Genpachi – and the...

1962 Japanese movie

A cynical samurai is left as the sole survivor to fulfill a plot to assassinate the puppet of a villain intent on usurping the shogunate in the 17th...

The Yagyu Family have been teaching the Shinkage style of fencing for generations. Now a new fencing school has opened in Edo, claiming to be the...

The story concerns the efforts of seven master swordsman who join together to protect the new inexperienced Shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune from the evil...

Saotome Mondonosuke pursues the culprit who placed a malicious curse upon Shogun Tsunekichi.

Magistrate Ooka-Echizen faces a crime over a pillbox.

This is the second film in the popular black and white series about the master swordsman, Yagyu Jubei. When the Yagyu clan falls victim to rival...

1962 Japanese movie

This is the second installment of the trilogy based on Japan’s greatest novel “The Great Bodhisattva Pass”, following the life and...

1962 Japanese movie

The conclusion of the story of famed swordsman, Sasaki Kojiro. After surviving a series of daring adventures, Kojiro seems to have finally discovered...

Swordfighting instructor Danpei works at a local theater in Tokyo, instructing the actors how to fight realistically.

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

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

The sole survivor of a shipwreck pursues the whereabouts of his friends’ missing family members in Edo.

Early film by Eiichi Kudô.