Byinshi Byarebwaga Kuva Kataoka Chiezo Productions

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...

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

Silent jidaigeki film

His mother abandoned him as a child, so he had no choice but to live outside society. Even so, he grows up determined to reunite with her. Worried...

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.

Hiroshi Inagaki's first movie.

Directed by Mansaku Itami.

Martial Arts Encyclopedia

In old Edo, Kakunojo (Chiezo), a dandy about town, falls in love with Oichi (Isuzu Yamada), whose merchant family is much beyond Kakunojo's status....

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...

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

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