Ryōsuke Kagawa Movies

A 1946 Japanese film directed by Keigo Kimura.

Set in the middle of the Edo period (1603-1867), this tragic love story takes its cue from a celebrated historical case tried by magistrate Tadasuke...

Ito Daisuke's wartime retelling of the Miyamoto Musashi story.

A Japanese drama featuring the one-eyed, one-armed swordsman

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

Directed by Mansaku Itami.

A princess in disguise, Oshichi launches an investigation to reveal the truth about the disappearance of young women in Edo.

This is Kanjûrô Arashi's first film with Nikkatsu after his independent production company went bankrupt (many of these independent...

Early Japanese three-part samurai / fantasy serial.

film directed by Tai Katô

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

The first film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass.

Date Mosui, a young samurai, one day gets a scolding from a nameless ronin that sets him thinking about what life is all about and his ways of...

In old Edo, Kakunojo (Chiezo), a dandy about town, falls in love with Oichi (Isuzu Yamada), whose merchant family is much beyond Kakunojo's status....

A small-town boy with a learning disability attempts to fit in with his classmates.