Yataro Kurokawa Movies

film directed by Tai Katô

Prewar jidaigeki starring Denjiro Okochi

Japanese war movie

A 1942 Jidaigeki by the veteran jidaigeki filmmaker Kunio Watanabe about the legendary warrior Musashibo Benkei with Hideko Takamine portraying...

With his simple appearance, eyes shining with love and a sense of justice, and voice burning with youthful passion, the eleven students felt...

Pre-war jidaigeki film from 1936, produced by Uzumasa Hassei Eiga studios

Ishimatsu of Mori, from his early days leading up to his joining with Shimizu Jirocho, Boss of the Tokaido where he made his mark in history through...

Young girl Kichiza searches for her missing brother and the person responsible for the death of her parents.

A story about a spear master’s spiritual and martial discipline.

The sequel to the 1935 film Great Bodhisattva Pass

The magical swordsman battles a gang of cutthroats, who are led by a peg-legged villain.

In the first two films we learn the character's origins, including his childhood and how he learned his fighting skills. Later, he must face his...

Edo, 1703. Young Sugino, one of the 47 rōnin seeking revenge against lord Kira, who caused that his master, Asano of Ako, committed seppuku,...

1930s Japanese film.

Japan, 1701. A group of samurai become rônin after their lord is forced to commit seppuku for assaulting a court official, who will become the...

Legendary yakuza Shimizu Jirocho and his 28 henchmen travel the unruly path from a 'Fire Festival' in Akiba to a decisive battle by the Fujigawa.

Dedication of the Great Buddha is a 1952 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.

The masked avenger Kurama Tengu is linked to a plot to bring down the Tokugawa shogunate, but is it really our hero, or an imposter?