Movies: Yūnosuke Itō

Jidai-geki about the life of Yasubei Nakayama, a famous ronin who did participate in the revenge against Lord Kira Yoshinaka as detailed in Japan's famous epic Chushingura...

A movie directed by Nobuo Nakagawa...

Office worker comedy by Nobuo Nakagawa...

Melodrama by Kiyoshi Saeki...

Shinkichi, a peasant employed as a cloth-dyer, has a dream: in the midst of the civil war which ravages Japan, he hopes to revive the long-banned custom of the Kyoto Gion Festival, and by doing so, bring together the warring clans and rampaging briga...

An upstanding young man’s racy adventure filled with conspiracies and love....

From runaway brides to a typhoon, the continued adventures of Ushikata police station....

Jidai-geki starring Kanjuro Arashi...

A newly hired daily newspaper writer covering the society beat receives an assignment to cover Tokyo at night by walking and observing it. He gets into the right frame of mind by dressing the part as a vagrant with not a penny to his name. He gets in...

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Jidai-geki by Nobuo Nakagawa. Most likely a star vehicle for Kanjuro Arashi...

An exciting historical drama that dynamically depicts the life of Minamoto no Yoshitsune from the period of his stay on Mount Kurama to his reconciliation with his brother Yoritomo....

1962 Japanese movie...

Somewhat unique as it appears to be one of the very rare appearances of master thespian Itô in a yakuza role....

A family comprised of a man, woman and their only son is torn apart when the father, who is a doctor with his own clinic, is to go off to war. Soon the wife and the son are left without an update of his status and whether he is alive or not. With the...

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Period film about the legendary detective Umon...

Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals...

Fifth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin....

Two devious retainers are competing to take control of a fief when the current Lord dies, but involving Kyoshiro in the conflict against his will is the textbook example of a bad idea - especially when the collateral damage starts to tick him off....