Kinya Ichikawa Movies

This is the story of a blind masseur who tricks people, steals, and kills; he is the anti-Zatoichi.

The story of Sasaki Kojiro, a young swordsman, and his quest to train under master Seigen and develop his own style.

The film won 1959 Blue Ribbon Awards for best actor Raizo Ichikawa and for best cinematography Kazuo Miyagawa. The film also won 1959 Kinema Junpo...

Yutaro Kodan, born under a cloud because his aristocrat father died opposing the shogunate, stumbles onto a treasure map. Lusting after the treasure,...

When a corrupt magistrate rapes Oshima, Masa (Raizō Ichikawa) avenges her by killing the officer, becoming thereby a fugitive, haunted and...

1962 Japanese movie

Film about Japanese ghost story Banchō Sarayashiki.

Follows the murder of a money-lending masseur by an impoverished samurai. The slain masseur's daughter will also fall victim to his curse, so that...

The film adaptation of the famous tragic love story of the young samurai Shirai Gonpachi and the beautiful courtesan Komurasaki.

1962 Japanese movie

Last part of the Snake Woman trilogy.

Based on the comic by Shosuke Kurakane. Shown in two parts.

In the eleventh year of the Tenpō era, the Kawarazaki-za theater in Edo buzzed with excitement for a new production of "Kanjinchō" by...