Seinosuke Hayashi

Jidaigeki film, only a fragment remains of the original film.

Directed by Mansaku Itami.

Adaptation of the novel by Osaragi Jirō.

Hiroshi Inagaki's first movie.

A captivating operetta by Masahiro Makino based on Juppensha Ikku's humorous novel "Tōkaidōchū Hizakurige" starring Chiezo Kataoka and Kyoji Sugi.

Film about Japanese ghost story Banchō Sarayashiki.

“Dokuro sen” (The Skull Coin) is the first film adaptation of the popular novel by Kikuo Sumita. The story evolves around the seven...

Silent jidaigeki film

Jesuit priests in Japan during the 17th century are persecuted by the shogunate to for trying to spread Christianity.

Final installment of the Okochi / Arai / Yamanaka Mito Komon series and just as good as the others (a good deal longer, as well). Again, this film...

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

This film tells the story of a ronin's search for his parents, but primarily is a group portrait of life in a Tokugawa-era tenement.

An adventurer and two accomplices unexpectedly invite themselves to a sword tournament and are offered a job with the lord who organized the...

Date Mosui, a young samurai, one day gets a scolding from a nameless ronin that sets him thinking about what life is all about and his ways of...

A samurai is ordered by his lord to go to Edo and investigate the truth behind the rumor of a rebellion against him.

In the midst of the depression, two ronin rack their brains to come up with a dishonest scheme. Taking a man from the countryside, they fashion him...

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