Sōji Kiyokawa Movies

Period drama directed by Yasushi Sasaki.

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

1946 Toho film directed by Kiyoshi Saeki

The sequel to the 1935 film Great Bodhisattva Pass

Harima Aoyama (Chiyonosuke Azume) was a young hatamoto (samurai bannerman) to the Shogun. He seduced his commoner house maid Okiku (Hibari). He...

Lord for a Night is a 1946 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.

In the midst of the warring age, a young samurai Kyonosuke defies his former lord Hojo Ujikatsu in order to avenge his parents’ deaths.

A kindhearted wandering gambler named Hajiro gets involved in a crisis of a village as he passes through and decides to lend a sword in hopes to...

At the beginning of the Meiji era, three brothers of a samurai family each stand up to the times.

A young lord joins gang of Robin-esque robbers.

This 1956 adaptation of the novel with the same title puts more focus on the characters and their interactions than the previous version.

A small community in wartime Japan learn how to make do with less.

Thanks to a secret message hidden on the two sacred swords Kaen and Suien, the samurai Genji Kurô (Nakamura Kinnosuke) found the hidden...

Genji Kurô is a master swordsman and entrusted with protecting the ancient sword Kaen by the Otsubo family.

1961 Japanese movie

1930s Japanese film.

Based on a short story by Dazai Osamu, produced under the national film law. The film's hero falls in love with the youngest daughter of a family he...

A lost film telling a story of Jirokichi the Rat, a notorious thief