Denjirō Ōkōchi Movies

The story is based on the serial novel by Tsunoda Kikuo.

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

When an altercation with a gangster forces Kikutaro to leave Edo, he is sent by his father to Hamamatsu to find a better direction in life. However,...

Prewar jidaigeki starring Denjiro Okochi

A Japanese silent film

Final installment of the Okochi / Arai / Yamanaka Mito Komon series and just as good as the others (a good deal longer, as well). Again, this film...

Jirokichi the Rat is a notorious thief. While on the run from the law, he discovers an unexpectedly honourable side of himself, and maybe some form...

Jidaigeki from 1940

Japanese film released to commemorate the 7th anniversary of Shintoho's founding.

Adaptation of the novel by Osaragi Jirō.

Underneath Himeji Castle, Miyamoto Bensuke was determined to inherit the will of his late father, Shinmen Munenori, and aimed to become a great...

Adaptation of the novel by Osaragi Jirō. Again scripted by the legendary Yamanaka Sadao

Master swordsman and loyal vassal Saotome Mondonosuke goes on a mission to find a missing princess.

Set in the Edo-era, a smuggling vessel runs into conflict between the Matsumae clan and the Ainu in Hokkaido.

For nearly 300 years, Japan had been hermetically sealed to the outside world. When, in that pivotal year of 1854, the American Admiral Perry took...

First part - Edo at the end of the Edo period, when the wind and clouds were rising rapidly - The people gathered at Kiba late at night are Shinnojo...