Movies: Mansaku Itami

A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly....

Matsugoro is a poor rickshaw driver whose animated spirit and optimistic demeanor make him a favorite of the town. Matsu helps an injured boy, Toshio, and is hired by the boy's parents....

In the midst of the depression, two ronin rack their brains to come up with a dishonest scheme. Taking a man from the countryside, they fashion him into Ise Isenokami, the finest swordsman under the sun. Pretending to be his followers, they visit var...

A samurai is ordered by his lord to go to Edo and investigate the truth behind the rumor of a rebellion against him....

A movie directed by Nobuo Nakagawa...

Chiezo Kataoka plays a cowardly samurai, whose honor is on the line when it becomes necessary to avenge the murder of his father. The culminating duel takes place on a night of fireworks....

Teruo gets caught up in a conflict between tradition and modernism after returning to Japan from Germany after having spent a number of years there studying. Now, he is supposed to marry Mitsuko, the daughter of his adoptive father, to whom Teruo ha...

A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly....

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Date Mosui, a young samurai, one day gets a scolding from a nameless ronin that sets him thinking about what life is all about and his ways of living. His frined, Ando Kichinosuke, is alarmed at Mosui's despondency and invites him to his house as his...

A small-town boy with a learning disability attempts to fit in with his classmates....

Remake of classic samurai film of 1932...

1950 Japanese movie...

An adventurer and two accomplices unexpectedly invite themselves to a sword tournament and are offered a job with the lord who organized the competition....

Directed by Mansaku Itami....

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Martial Arts Encyclopedia...

Hiroshi Inagaki's first movie....

Japanese adaptation of LES MISERABLES. The last film of director Itami took inspiration from Les Miserables. Transpiring during the Southwestern War of 1877 in Japan, which was the last civil war in the country, a criminal escapes prison only to be ...

Directed by Daisuke Itō....