Movies: Eriko Yoshida

An all-star cast highlights this Jidai-Geki classic. Set in the samurai era, this is the tale of period Yakuza. One of the real classics in this genre. Jirocho, an honorable and respected gang boss, uncovers a conspiracy organized by his rivals while...

Kondo Isami, the “Devil” commander of the Shinsengumi was one of Japan’s greatest national heroes and a peerless swordsman who devoted his life to protecting the shogun and fighting on the side of the Tokugawa. This tells the story of the Shinsengumi...

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Saotome Mondonosuke pursues the culprit who placed a malicious curse upon Shogun Tsunekichi....

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

1962 Japanese movie...

Tale of tragic love between samurai and princess during Heian period....

Tetsunosuke, an eccentric doctor and an owner of a fencing school, takes aim against corrupt authorities....

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This most celebrated all-star movie version of the popular series features Tsukigata Ryunosuke as Mito Komon, the sage who wanders the countryside rectifying government corruption along with his faithful attendants Suke and Kaku....

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

1962 Japanese movie...

1955 Japanese movie...

Jidaigeki film from 1960...

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Bright samurai movie innovatively adapted from a classic story. A traveling masterless samurai is asked by a daughter of an established samurai family to pretend they are a married couple, and gets involved in the troubles of the samurai clan....