Movies: Eijirō Yanagi

The news that the fifth Shogun Tsunayoshi was seriously ill caused a fierce struggle for the post of sixth shogun between the Mito faction and the faction of Chief Adviser Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu. Two mysterious love stories develop against the backgrou...

Sheriff Goro goes undercover to investigate drug smugglers....

Judo expert Saburô Watari fights his judo master, Tsujido, while simultaneously in conflict with a karate expert....

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A young botanical researcher moves to the highlands to collect plants for research, and falls in love with a nurse there....

Three young employees navigate love, ambition, and meddling bosses as workplace crushes evolve into defiant relationships that challenge social expectations....

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An Edo appointed official Baba must ensure the safe delivery of shogunate funds to Kyoto....

A continuation of the prior film (影法師)....

1967 Japanese movie...

During the Genroku era, Azusa Gennosuke, renowned in Nara as a top swordsman and a scholar, crossed swords with the Magistrate Kurobane Yatayu, who tried to force himself on Gennosuke's beloved foster-sister, Kikuno. As a result, Gennosuke's younger ...

Shochiku's commemorative 3000th film production; a suspenseful period drama....

A boy falls in love with a girl. Neither of them know that she's to be sold to a brothel....

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Sinza who is secretly the well known "Sea Glow Burglar", gives to the poor the money he takes from the bad lords and greedy merchants, who live just to exploit the poor for their small coins. On his travel he meets a man and his little girl Onatsu. T...

1951 Japanese movie...

A story of an orphan boy who wanted the love of parents so badly, another orphan sincerely pitied him to the point he gives his secret birthright as an illegitimate son to a Shogun as a "gift of hope" to the sad boy. As the orphan boy grew up, his lo...

Hatamoto Ooka Gentaro was deeply committed to a future with a beautiful girl named Omachi, a relationship facilitated by his love of the shamisen. Omachi was stalked by a ronin named Akiyama Kanosuke, and at one point, Gentaro and Akiyama dueled at M...

The second work in the series "Cases of An Actor in Disguise" starring Kokichi Takada, based on the original work of Tatsuro Jinde. Popular ronin actor Kasumi Ippei intervenes in a planned robbery of the mint, where gold coins are minted for the Shog...

A comedy about a free-spirited man Shosuke, whose life is turned upside down when he is ordered to serve the clan lord....