Ryūzaburō Mitsuoka Movies

A film based on the life of the bakuto Kunisada Chuji

Adaptation of Mito Kōmon.

A lowly drunken samurai finds an abandoned baby in the woods and takes it home. A gift from a fox. But there's something special about the boy.

Ito Daisuke's wartime retelling of the Miyamoto Musashi story.

Film about Ghost-Cat.

1945 Japanese movie

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....

Early film directed by Kenji Misumi.

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...

Martial Arts Encyclopedia

The adventures of a young patriotic samurai. This is the Nikkatsu version of Shin Hasegawa's original story. Shochiku released their version of the...

In this Japanese retelling of Cinderella, Okuro (Takayama) is the unfortunate stepdaughter of a family of tanuki: shape-shifting raccoon dogs. She...

Suzunosuke visits a martial arts master and tries to learn the 'Vacuum Slash,' a secret technique of producing tornadoes.

Bored Hatamoto film #9

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

Film directed by Kenji Misumi.