Seinosuke Hayashi Movies

A captivating operetta by Masahiro Makino based on Juppensha Ikku's humorous novel "Tōkaidōchū Hizakurige" starring Chiezo Kataoka and...

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

“Dokuro sen” (The Skull Coin) is the first film adaptation of the popular novel by Kikuo Sumita. The story evolves around the seven...

Jesuit priests in Japan during the 17th century are persecuted by the shogunate to for trying to spread Christianity.

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...

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

Adaptation of the novel by Osaragi Jirō.

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

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Silent jidaigeki film

Directed by Mansaku Itami.

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...

This film tells the story of a ronin's search for his parents, but primarily is a group portrait of life in a Tokugawa-era tenement.

Jidaigeki film, only a fragment remains of the original 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...

Hiroshi Inagaki's first movie.

Film about Japanese ghost story Banchō Sarayashiki.