Kōtarō Bandō Movies

Adaptation of Mito Kōmon.

Dedication of the Great Buddha is a 1952 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.

Japanese comedy film.

The story concerns the efforts of seven master swordsman who join together to protect the new inexperienced Shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune from the evil...

1948 Japanese movie

1962 Japanese movie

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

Followup film to Osaka Elegy - Osaka Woman

A dashing edition with fights , love, and laughter, in which the sorrows and joys of the guiltless world are colored by the guiltless travel crow,...

Kota and Kosuke, from the Hikyaku-ya shop in Edo, went to Kyoto. Contrary to their carefree appearance, they carry a secret letter concerning the...

A remake of High Noon (1952) as a Japanese jidai-geki sword-fighting movie.

Young girl Kichiza searches for her missing brother and the person responsible for the death of her parents.

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 work in the series "Cases of An Actor in Disguise" starring Kokichi Takada, based on the original work of Tatsuro Jinde. Kasumi Ippei is a...

Jidaigeki by Tai Kato

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

1962 Japanese movie

A family is brutally murdered in their own home and the official government's sake dealer is framed as a rebel by a corrupt member of the Shogun's...

Two cowardly palanquin carriers know the culprit of a murder but are too scared to report it to the police. In the mean time, an innocent man is...

Japanese film, originally released in two parts.