Utaemon Ichikawa Movies

Adaptation of the Riichi Yokomitsu novel.

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

Bored Hatamoto film #3

This is the story of Gonpachi, a ronin who falls in love with the daughter of a man he had killed many years before.

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The success story of a group of ronin who fights against traffickers during the Edo Tenpo period.

The deputy shogun of the realm, accompanied by his loyal and capable aides, makes a stop at Jigokudani, a place along his journey through various...

During the Warring States period, immediately after Hideyoshi Hashiba defeated Mitsuhide Akechi at the Battle of Yamazaki, in the village of Ogurisu...

Bored Hatamoto film #5

Utaemon Ichikawa plays the role of Hikoshiro Navate, who has a strong sense of justice and opposes power and tyranny with his will and spirit.

Marune Santaro directed this actionner about two fearless Kobe Harbor Patrol Officers who fight to keep the city safe from the dreaded Crimson Z...

Bored Hatamoto film #7

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...

Around the Genroku era, there was a man named Saotome Shusui-no-Suke, nephew to the senior councilor Matsudaira Sakon Shogen. He was commonly known...

Bored Hatamoto film #6