Tadashi Sawashima

During the Age Of Wars (Sengoku Era), Tokugawa Ieyasu and Toyotomi Hideyoshi are vying for power and each uses their secret weapons in order to ...

Just after the Battle of Sekigahara, a pair of children Denji and Kichizo witnessed a team of the defeated forces hide the Toyotomi treasure. ...

On New Year’s Day 1716, Munenaga of Owari and Yoshinao of Kii were both named as candidates for the title of 8th Shogun. The wise and just ...

Case of the Golden Hairpins is the second of the three-picture Detective Hibari series from Toei. Each was designed as a showcase for superstar ...

This anthology tells three separate stories, all about yakuza (Japan’s gangsters) in the feudal period. In the first, Sentaro, a roaming ...

The epic battles between the Heike and Genji (Taira and Minamoto clans) take centerstage as the defeated leader of the Genji, Minamoto Yoritomo ...

Playhouse employees Okimi and Otoshi become involved in an undercover officer’s investigation of a gang when they accidentally walk in on a ...

Before she is to be married of according to the clan’s will, Princess Kimi escapes for a last gasp of freedom. Toshi, her loyal and always ...

Finding more freedom on the high seas than in war-torn Japan, the ‘Bahansen’ (Pirate ships) based on the Seto Inland Sea during the ...

Serving his prison time after the events of the first movie, Hishakaku discovers that Otoyo is working as a prostitute in Manchuria. He travels ...

The story of two young men whose ambition is to become the personal bodyguards to the Shogun’s uncle, Lord Mito Komon. Portrayed by a pair ...

A small-time con artist gets word that his mother will come see him in Edo. To avoid her finding out that he’s been wildly exaggerating his ...

Hishakaku asks his woman, Otoyo, a former geisha, to move to Tokyo, where they are taken in by Boss Kokin. Due to his obligation to Kokin, he is ...

Near the end of the nineteenth century, as the balance of power shifts from Shogunate towards the Emperor, Japan restlessly awaits the dawning of ...

Some of the finest jidai-geki actors appear in this exciting and entertaining tale of intrigue and action in old Japan. Teaming up the ...