Utaemon Ichikawa Movies

Magistrate Ooka and a samurai fight against evil forces.

Bored Hatamoto movie #12

A film about the rivalry and friendship between firefighter Chоji and sumo wrestler Sokichi Fudoyama.

Bright samurai movie innovatively adapted from a classic story. A traveling masterless samurai is asked by a daughter of an established samurai...

This 1956 adaptation of the novel with the same title puts more focus on the characters and their interactions than the previous version.

During the reign of 5th Shogun Tokugawa Tsuneyoshi a troupe of Chinese acrobats travel to Japan to help celebrate the building of the Yushima Shrine....

Film about Ghost-Cat.

Bored Hatamoto film #9

During the ultra-violent era of the downfall of the Tokugawa Shogunate one man rose above the rest with his ideas of how to overthrow the corrupt...

This is the only surviving "Mito Komon Manyu-ki" film. This release also known as Adrift Tour Memoir is an 80-minute compilation of the first and...

At a tavern in Shimoda, Ronin Tadakazu Yamakawa saved a samurai girl named Mino from the clutches of the Benten family. When Mino's father, Kyohei...

Directed by Daisuke Ito.

Bored Hatamoto film #1

A story about Ômura Masujirô

Bored Hatamoto film #16.

A rare film which depicts the tragic fate of a Christian lord who fought for his fate in the Edo period. Of note is Utaemon Ichikawa's extraordinary...