Kodayu Ichikawa Movies

Akitaro Orizuru, who set out on a journey to avenge his father's death in the darkness, returned to Itako, his hometown, where the Ayame Festival was...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kōkichi Takada

Period film about a feudal era judge living in Edo

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomoshirô Otani

Film adaption by Kenji Misumi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Aboard a ship connecting Kyoto and Osaka, Osan was pickpocketed by a sham blind biwa player. A man who looked like a merchant retrieved the wallet...

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Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

A young boy named Chomatsu (Misora Hibari) lives with an old man Denbei near the grounds of Asakusa temple as bell ringers. In their house is an...

Genre: Music

Cast: Hibari Misora

The time was the first year of Keio (1865). Upon hearing the news that the Imperial Army was approaching Hida Takayama, the district head Shimizu...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masao Wakahara

Around the Genroku era, there was a man named Saotome Shusui-no-Suke, nephew to the senior councilor Matsudaira Sakon Shogen. He was commonly known...

Genre: Action

Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

The phantom thief, known as the "Actor Kid", who was creating a stir in the Daimyo's mansion, especially in the inner chambers, was called Inaba...

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Cast: Kōkichi Takada

In 1842, in the Umemoku Mansion within Hikone Castle, Naosuke Ii, despite the tumultuous times, was engrossed in the world of tea ceremony. His...

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Cast: Matsumoto Hakuō I

On March 11 in the seventh year of Tenpo (1836), a monk named Bennō, who fell in love with a geisha named Oshima, was publicly exposed at...

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Cast: Eiji Wakasugi

A foot soldier from Tottori domain named Shirai Gonpachi showcased exceptional swordsmanship that even surpassed the domain's champion Honjo...

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Cast: Teiji Takahashi

During the era of Tokugawa Ieyasu, one night a carver named Fujijiro was murdered. Immediately launching an investigation, Denhichi, accompanied by...

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Cast: Kōkichi Takada

Hatamoto Ooka Gentaro was deeply committed to a future with a beautiful girl named Omachi, a relationship facilitated by his love of the shamisen....

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Cast: Kōkichi Takada

Tasuke stumbles across Kokichi, a distraught man whom having lost his fiancee to Lord Kawakatsu is ready to commit suicide. Tasuke learns that...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

In the eleventh year of the Tenpō era, the Kawarazaki-za theater in Edo buzzed with excitement for a new production of "Kanjinchō" by...

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Cast: Kōkichi Takada

In the mid-Tokugawa period, a conflict arose over the "Seiryū Himon," a secret document left by the former shogun Iesai, bequeathing the eighth...

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Cast: Katsuo Nakamura

One night in Edo, a mysterious woman in a palanquin appeared at the moneylender Yamashiroya, revealing herself to a beautiful woman. She told the...

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Cast: Kōkichi Takada

Umon’s services are called upon when innocent bystanders, Kayo and Minokichi, along with the ronin, Gontaro are mistakenly identified as...

Genre: History

Cast: Ryutaro Otomo

1953 jidaigeki directed by Nobuo Nakagawa of Jigoku and Ghost of Yotsuya fame.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomoshirô Otani

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

One of the great stories from Japan’s rich history comes to life in this true tale of the bloody showdown between two rival yakuza gangs in the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

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Cast: Eiichi Sugasawara

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Kinnosuke of Toyama sets out on a private mission to clear his father’s name for a crime he did not commit.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chiezo Kataoka

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Cast: Kōkichi Takada

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Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

A film about the Ghost of Okiku that's based on the kabuki play Bancho Sarayashiki.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

In the 9th year of the Tempo era, after a long sea voyage, Moritaya Seizo returned to Hirado, who earned huge amounts of gold by piracy. Along the...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Ryutaro Otomo

Third in the Nage utasamon series

Genre: Horror

Cast: Yataro Kurokawa

During the 17th Century roving bands of hatamoto were causing trouble in the new capital city of Edo and constantly fought with the townspeople at...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tsumasaburō Bandō

Genre: Drama

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

1961 Japanese film about the Shinsengumi.

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Cast: Kanjūrō Arashi

Japanese film.

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Cast: Kōkichi Takada

The tragedy of the geiko girl Ume and the men who try to pursue her.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiyo Kogure

The feudal lord Kisaragi Yae no Kami (Minami Komyo) searches for a child he had with a low-borne woman, that was sent away from his home 16 years ago...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hibari Misora

The story of Japan’s greatest warrior, Miyamoto Musashi, after his historic duel with Sasaki Kojiro on Ganryu Island.

Genre: Action

Cast: Chiezo Kataoka

The year is 1805. Napoleon ruled Europe. Ienari is the 11th Tokugawa Shogun. An incident, which was an open official secret, took place on the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

The Shinsengumi is a special unit of ronin commissioned by the Tokugawa shogunate to counter anti-shogunate activities in Kyoto. A sinister plot to...

Genre: Action

Cast: Chiezo Kataoka

It is brother against brother in this tale of love and betrayal within the famed Yagyu clan. In one of their earliest films together, superstars...

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Toyama Kinshiro, a commissioner from northern Edo, goes undercover to unravel the mystery behind a series of murders. Kinshiro, played by Kataoka...

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Cast: Chiezo Kataoka

Kataoka Chiezo stars as Murasaki Zukin, a mysterious hero of the people who helps those in need. Now under the rule of the evil Tanuma, the people...

Genre: Action

Cast: Chiezo Kataoka

Japanese comedy film.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Junzaburō Ban

Kondo Isami, the “Devil” commander of the Shinsengumi was one of Japan’s greatest national heroes and a peerless swordsman who...

Genre: History

Cast: Chiezo Kataoka

Featuring some of the finest swordsmen ever to grace the silver screen, this Toei classic tells the story of a battle between the evil sword style...

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Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

A President of the confectionery company announced his retirement, and his sixteen year old granddaughter, Madoka was ordered to be a new head. But...

Genre: Music

Cast: Hibari Misora

Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Two meet again in Hokkaido only to be separated again.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

Machiko Ujiie and Haruki Atomiya first meet and fall in love on Ginza’s Sukiyabashi Bridge during the Great Tokyo Air Raid in March 1945....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

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

Genre: History

Cast: Kusuo Abe

A ghost story about a woman who dies a violent death and appears to the man she loves as a vengeful spirit. This film marked the turning point in...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Mitsuko Mito

Chubei, the adopted son of an Osaka courier, falls desperately in love with the courtesan Umegawa. To prevent a wealthy client from purchasing her,...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

A power struggle in the fief of Okazaki causes the death of Namiji, a nobleman's daughter. As her fiancé seeks revenge, he finds Namiji's cat...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Detective Hanshichi (Kataoka Chiezo) solves 3 mysterious murder cases. Great story and an impressive all-star cast, a must see!

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Chiezo Kataoka

Two guardians of the Nijo Castle, Shioya and Kamazawa, discover a map leading to a secret passage to Edo Castle. Instead of reporting their find to...

Genre: Action

Cast: Chiezo Kataoka

Townsend Harris is sent by President Pierce to Japan to serve as the first U.S. Consul-General to that country. Harris discovers enormous hostility...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Wayne

Each one of us lives differently. So, there are many tragedies and comedies in our lives. She feels many conflicts in living her life between truth...

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Cast: Chikage Awashima

A master hunter is driven to defiance after a tyrannical magistrate's cruelty pushes his community to its breaking point. His expert skill with a bow...

Genre: Action

Cast: Chiezo Kataoka

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tsumasaburō Bandō

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Based on the novel by Shofu Muramatsu, the film is dedicated to the actors of the renowned Japanese Kabuki theatre. Set in Japan in 1885, the story...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Genre: Romance

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Famed detective Dandy Sashichi tries to solve who's behind the serial murders of six beautiful women under the aegis of local showman Ibaragiya. The...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

A story about a high school sophomore, Uzumi Keiko (Kyoko Kami), in a coastal Japanese city, Keiko’s coming-of-age story centers on her...

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Cast: Kuniko Igawa

Genre: History

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

The first film in the Daiei series. At the command of Lord Aiba, Tange Sazen targets two famous swords owned by Onozuka Tessai.

Genre: Action

Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

The story follows Keiko, a dancer in the "Maiko Odori" theater in Kyoto, who tries to climb the social ladder in a world driven by money and...

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Cast: Hizuru Takachiho

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Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

Aoi Shingo, a son of the Shogun, continues his travels seeking to further his mastery of the sword. In this final episode of the popular...

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Cast: Hashizo Ōkawa

An all-star cast portraying the end of the Edo period as a commemorative film for the late Tsumasaburo Bando.

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Cast: Takahiro Tamura

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Cast: Mariko Okada