Kyōichi Hara Movies

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

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

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...

Jidaigeki film from 1960

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

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...

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...

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

Magistrate Ooka-Echizen faces a crime over a pillbox.

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

1962 Japanese movie

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

1962 Japanese movie

Early film by Eiichi Kudô.