Movies: Kyōichi Hara

Tragicomic road movie set during the Edo period. It follows a samurai, his two servants – including spear-carrier Genpachi – and the various people they meet on their journey, including a policeman in pursuit of a thief, a young child and a woman who...

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 century. A Shogunate Elder connives to rule Japan by making his puppet, the Shogun's brother Tsunash...

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 the ultimate happiness in life when he is reunited with Tone, the love of his life. However, his day...

This is the second installment of the trilogy based on Japan’s greatest novel “The Great Bodhisattva Pass”, following the life and times of bloodthirsty samurai, Tsukue Ryunosuke. Blinded in an explosion and further injured from a fall, the master sw...

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 true Shinkage style. Yagyu Jubei faces his biggest challenge yet when the master of the new school claim...

The story concerns the efforts of seven master swordsman who join together to protect the new inexperienced Shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune from the evil plans of the Owari Clan's corrupt Lord. It's a colorful bunch, a drunk samurai, a master thief, a swor...

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....

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

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Magistrate Ooka-Echizen faces a crime over a pillbox....

1962 Japanese movie...

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

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1962 Japanese movie...

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 Kasumi spies, Yagyu Jubei is called to action to protect them. But in performing his duty, he becomes the...

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

Early film by Eiichi Kudô....