Utaemon Ichikawa Trailers
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Utaemon Ichikawa was a Japanese film actor famous for starring roles in Jidaigeki from the 1920s to the 1960s. Trained in kabuki from childhood, he made his film debut in 1925 at Makino Film Productions under Shōzō Makino. Quickly gaining popularity, he followed the example of Makino stars such as Tsumasaburō Bandō in starting his own independent production company, Utaemon Ichikawa Productions, in 1927. It was there he first began the "Idle Vassal" (Hatamoto taikutsu otoko) series, which would become his signature role. When his company folded in 1936 as sound film came to the fore, he moved to Shinkō Kinema and then Daiei Studios before helping form the Toei Company after World War II. He served on the board of directors along with fellow samurai star Chiezō Kataoka. Utaemon appeared in over 300 films during his career. His son, Kin'ya Kitaōji, is also a famous actor in film and television.
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13 September 1961
A story of an orphan boy who wanted the love of parents so badly, another orphan sincerely pitied him to the point he gives his secret birthright as an illegitimate son to a Shogun as a "gift of hope" to the sad boy.
27 May 1958
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.
18 November 1953
Adaptation of the Riichi Yokomitsu novel.
03 January 1958
An all-star cast highlights this Jidai-Geki classic. Set in the samurai era, this is the tale of period Yakuza.
30 April 1958
When Katsukawa, a low ranking vassal, learns that his greedy superior, Tatewaki, has hatched a plan to expand his territory, he and his comrades decide to take matters into their own hands.
28 March 1961
Toei’s 10th anniversary film, featuring an all-star cast from the golden movie era of the 1960s. A famous story of the 47 loyal samurai.
26 August 1950
Swordfighting instructor Danpei works at a local theater in Tokyo, instructing the actors how to fight realistically.
28 June 1959
Master swordsman and loyal vassal Saotome Mondonosuke goes on a mission to find a missing princess.
09 January 1961
A Tokugawa Daimyo rebels against an his lord after the battle of Sekigahara. Samurai Matabei, a famous spear fighter and warrior, is a vassal of lord Honjo.
01 December 1932
This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their feudal lord after he was obliged to commit hara-kiri due to the machinations of a villainous courtier.
12 August 1958
Master swordsman and loya 'Hatamoto' (direct vassal to the Shogun), Saotome Mondonosuke, is sent to investigate an intrigue centering on the Date Clan.
03 April 1952
Gotō Matabei is the most able and fierce samurai of the Kuroda clan. However, he gradually dislikes the ruthless personality of Kuroda Nagamasa and leaves the clan.
03 January 1957
An all-star cast highlights this Jidai-Geki classic. Set in the samurai era, this is the tale of period Yakuza.
03 January 1960
While on the road, famed Yakuza Boss Jirocho is falsely accused of starting a peasant's uprising and chased by the law.
10 May 1927
A rare film which depicts the tragic fate of a Christian lord who fought for his fate in the Edo period.
29 August 1956
This 1956 adaptation of the novel with the same title puts more focus on the characters and their interactions than the previous version.
03 January 1950
The second part of an action-packed action movie about the struggle between smugglers, the Japanese Coast Guard and G-men.
29 October 1957
The year is 1805. Napoleon ruled Europe. Ienari is the 11th Tokugawa Shogun. An incident, which was an open official secret, took place on the foothills of Mt.
03 May 1956
Adaptation of the novel by Kan Shimozawa.
14 January 1942
A story about Ômura Masujirô
30 March 1955
A samurai thief fights a gang of ghostly thieves using scorpions for treasure in the unexplored Shinano region, which is guarded by a descendant of the Heike clan.
31 December 1950
A film about the rivalry and friendship between firefighter Chоji and sumo wrestler Sokichi Fudoyama.
05 March 1961
1716, Yoshimune becomes the 8th Shogun as high Shogunate officials are attacked. While the government tries to keep these incidents under wraps, they must take any means possible to get to the bottom of this mystery and find out who is behind them.
09 August 1959
One of the great stories from Japan’s rich history comes to life in this true tale of the bloody showdown between two rival yakuza gangs in the 1840’s.
04 January 1949
Jida-geki by Santaro Marune.
27 March 1957
Period drama directed by Yasushi Sasaki.
22 January 1953
Bored Hatamoto movie #14
22 May 1960
Magistrate Ooka and a samurai fight against evil forces.
23 January 1962
Bored Hatamoto movie #29
15 January 1959
While the story of the Ako Clan's vendetta has been told countless times, never before has there been an array of major motion picture stars to bring new life to this timeless tale.
03 January 1963
When Kanbe Nagakichi has his turf taken over by Ano-Toku, the father-in-law of his sworn brother Kira Nikichi sets in motion one of the most violent gang battles in Japanese history.
01 August 1961
A maiden is murdered by a mysterious ninja, unfortunately two young ladies witness this, good thing the bored Lord is walking by, he saved the girls but was too late to save the maiden, quickly he finds himself mixed up in a mystery of murdered maidens, an unknown ninja clan, attempted assassinations towards himself and a cursed vampire bat cave, can the bored Lord solve this puzzle before maidens lose their lives?
11 July 1949
Film about Ghost-Cat.
25 December 1955
In Kyoto, a samurai named Boredom Otoko, Saotome Mondonosuke , appears and helps a woman being chased by a spy named Genshichi.
08 December 1941
In the early 18th-century, Lord Takumi-no-kami Asano, feuding with Lord Kira, tries to kill his opponent in the corridors of the Shogun's palace.
22 January 1938
This is the only surviving "Mito Komon Manyu-ki" film. This release also known as Adrift Tour Memoir is an 80-minute compilation of the first and second parts (147 minutes), which were re-edited and screened at a time when presentable films were dried up immediately after the defeat of the war.
10 August 1933
Bored Hatamoto film #5
31 August 1954
Bored Hatamoto film #16.
29 June 1960
Saotome Mondonosuke pursues the culprit who placed a malicious curse upon Shogun Tsunekichi.
28 December 1957
A swordsman must foil a minister's sinister plan to assassinate the shogun.
05 May 1959
Featuring some of the finest swordsmen ever to grace the silver screen, this Toei classic tells the story of a battle between the evil sword style called ”Otonashi” (The Silent Form) and the proper way of swordsmanship as promoted by such historical stalwarts as Shimada Toranosuke, and the mysterious Honda Sakon, who face off against a group masquerading as the lord of Mito and his traveling bodyguards Suke-san and Kaku-san.
14 October 1958
This is the story of Gonpachi, a ronin who falls in love with the daughter of a man he had killed many years before.
01 September 1962
Tetsunosuke, an eccentric doctor and an owner of a fencing school, takes aim against corrupt authorities.
30 April 1957
In the mist of the warring age (Sengoku Era), the Kyushu based Hayato Clan is faced with a monumental battle to determine their survival.
28 August 1960
Jidaigeki film from 1960
09 January 1963
Ryujin Misaki, located at the edge of the Genkai Sea, is known as an isolation ward for leprosy patients.
26 January 1964
Maeda Tsunanori, the lord of Kaga Domain, had two young princes - Katsumaru, the son of his legitimate wife, who died, and Yasunosuke, the son of his concubine.
22 November 1951
During the 17th Century roving bands of hatamoto were causing trouble in the new capital city of Edo and constantly fought with the townspeople at every turn.
14 February 1952
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 provinces.
29 May 1952
During the ultra-violent era of the downfall of the Tokugawa Shogunate one man rose above the rest with his ideas of how to overthrow the corrupt government and end the bloodshed between the Choshu and Satsuma clans which would ultimately lead to the alliance of these 2 clans and restoration of the emperor to full power.
