Kōtarō Bandō Movies

A film about sumo wrestler Wakanohana Kanji I. He was nicknamed "Devil of the dohyo" due to his excellent fighting spirit and endurance.

1948 Japanese movie

A kabuki actress is murdered. Her pet cat laps its mistress's blood and becomes a demon possessed by the vengeful murder victim.

After the massacre of Christians at Shimabara, followers of Amakusa Shiro band together in a plot to overthrow the shogunate in order to exact revenge...

The Lord of Okazaki is killed by his brother-in-law. Although the Lord's widow bears a child, she is also killed. Then, a ghost cat begins stalking in...

1956 Japanese film, originally released in three parts.

Japanese film, originally released in two parts.

1959 Shintoho adaptation of Kyoka Izumi's novel "A Woman's Pedigree".

1959 Japanese film.

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 be...

Japanese drama film, originally released in two parts.

Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Wakai omawari-san" by Shiro Sone.

Japanese comedy film.

Japanese film.

1959 Japanese film, originally released in two parts.

For the poor, Edo is Hell on Earth, starving under the rule of Tanuma Okitsugi, corrupt councilor to the shogun. But the courageous vagabond called “K...

At the beginning of the Meiji era, three brothers of a samurai family each stand up to the times.

In 1941, overpopulated Japan faces an economic boycott and its armed forces push further to the south. And despite negotiations between Japan and the...

Japanese drama film.

Yotsuya Kaidan, the story of Oiwa and Tamiya Iemon, is a tale of betrayal, murder and ghostly revenge. Arguably the most famous Japanese ghost story o...