Sōji Kiyokawa Movies

This 1956 adaptation of the novel with the same title puts more focus on the characters and their interactions than the previous version.

Period drama directed by Yasushi Sasaki.

Part two of two.

A kindhearted wandering gambler named Hajiro gets involved in a crisis of a village as he passes through and decides to lend a sword in hopes to...

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

This film attempts to reconstruct the tension of the Battle of Shanghai through an episode in an understated way, introducting its story in a...

9th directorial work by Yamamoto Satsuo.

Part one of two.

A tragic period film about a gangster who comes out of prison and finds it hard to find a place again in society.

The film recounts the tragedy of a young outlaw.

Jidaigeki from 1940

Thanks to a secret message hidden on the two sacred swords Kaen and Suien, the samurai Genji Kurô (Nakamura Kinnosuke) found the hidden...

A pickpocket falls in with a group of prostitutes who have one strict rule: none of them may ever sleep with a man without taking his money —...

A lost film telling a story of Jirokichi the Rat, a notorious thief

The sequel to the 1935 film Great Bodhisattva Pass

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