Kyōichi Hara Movies

Tragicomic road movie set during the Edo period. It follows a samurai, his two servants – including spear-carrier Genpachi – and the...

This is the second installment of the trilogy based on Japan’s greatest novel “The Great Bodhisattva Pass”, following the life and...

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...

The conclusion of the story of famed swordsman, Sasaki Kojiro. After surviving a series of daring adventures, Kojiro seems to have finally discovered...

The story concerns the efforts of seven master swordsman who join together to protect the new inexperienced Shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune from the evil...

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...

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

Early film by Eiichi Kudô.

Magistrate Ooka-Echizen faces a crime over a pillbox.

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

The sole survivor of a shipwreck pursues the whereabouts of his friends’ missing family members in Edo.

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

1962 Japanese movie

1962 Japanese movie