Shunji Sakai Movies

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...

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

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...

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...

1962 Japanese movie

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...

1958 Mito Kumon movie

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...

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...

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