Kinnosuke Takamatsu Movies

A group of five law enforcers search Edo for a missing sword.

When master swordsman Mikogami Genshiro of the Ono fencing school returns to find that his ailing sensei has been murdered in the dead of night, he...

One of Japan’s most popular folklore characters, Tange Sazen, the one-eyed and one-armed swordsman, must rescue the Yagyu clan from the...

Revenge breeds revenge. Ikuta Denpachiro, the martial arts instructor of the Honda family in Koriyama, lost a fight to the young samurai Enjo...

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

As Japan’s Tokugawa shogunate nears the end of its rule, Edo North Magistrate Toyama no Kinsan is called upon to judge the most difficult case...

Four ninja are hired to fight against the Shogunate’s plot to abolish the Gamo Clan, the regional barons struggling to reinstate their young...

film directed by Tai Katô

Swordfighting instructor Danpei works at a local theater in Tokyo, instructing the actors how to fight realistically.

Early film by Eiichi Kudô.