Movies: Shunji Sakai

Friendship between an ambitious young thief and an artist during the Warring States period....

Bored Hatamoto movie #29...

All is not well in an a small fishing village not far from Edo. Mysterious goings-on are happening at Echigoya’s Red Crane Mansion, and when Young Lord comes to relax he finds no peace until he can unravel the mystery rooted in the past when a beauti...

Master swordsman and loyal vassal Saotome Mondonosuke goes on a mission to find a missing princess....

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This is one of the many films based on the legend of Chuji Kunisada, a wandering gambler and a defender of the weak in the Edo period. In other words, he was the Japanese Robin Hood. In this film Kunisada (Chiezo Kataoka) arrives to a small town terr...

Counselor Mito and his companions departed from Mito to see Kikutaro, a young lord of the shogun family, who became the new lord of Shirataka castle with an income of three hundred thousand koku. As they approach Shirataka's domain, a disturbing adve...

1962 Japanese movie...

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Comedy with music starring the rock band The Spiders....

An injured Edo official is rescued by a vassal whose appearance is exactly like himself, and swears to sweep out the criminals from the town on his behalf....

A young lord lives against the will of his father Lord Tokugawa....

Bored Hatamoto film #19...

A young boy named Chomatsu (Misora Hibari) lives with an old man Denbei near the grounds of Asakusa temple as bell ringers. In their house is an Echigo lion mask, a memento of Chomatsu's deceased father. After several incidents of Echigo lion masks b...

Japanese comedy film....

A fox in disguise, Okon, returns the favor to a man who rescued her from a fatal trap....

1716, Yoshimune becomes the 8th Shogun as high Shogunate officials are attacked. While the government tries to keep these incidents under wraps, they must take any means possible to get to the bottom of this mystery and find out who is behind them....

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Based on the popular story of the tragic lovers, Onatsu and Seijuro....

The love between young college students Toki and the handsome Takaga is tested when Takaya's parents, who despise Toki's family's geisha house business, intervenes in their relationship....