Ryutaro Otomo Movies

Third and last movie in the Yakuza Hijoshi trilogy.

Adaptation of the Riichi Yokomitsu novel.

Kichizaburo, a samurai keeping peace in Edo, helps a young geisha Kozome avenge her father’s death.

The mysterious black hooded man, Kurozukin, helps transport funds raised to fight against the government.

A fellow member of the company named Hanjiro tells Koharu, an actress in a traveling theatrical troupe, about a keepsake folding fan that his lost...

1962 Japanese movie

The story of an unusual friendship between a vagabond, masterless samurai and a magistrate.

Ryutaro Otomo as the Edo magistrate Umon Kondo is out to solve a crime that centers around the murder of a jail guard & the escape of a criminal who...

This is the only surviving "Mito Komon Manyu-ki" film. This release also known as Adrift Tour Memoir is an 80-minute compilation of the first and...

Revenge breeds revenge. Ikuta Denpachiro, the martial arts instructor of the Honda family in Koriyama, lost a fight to the young samurai Enjo...

Movie adaptation of the 1959 ninja novel. With war against Korea looming on the horizon, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, the 'Taiko' becomes the target of an...

With plenty of action, and a strong story about the growth and development of an expert swordsman, who just happens to be from an extremely...

1954 Japanese movie

Sequel to "Island of Horrors" (獄門島, 1949).

With the help of famous yakuza Jirocho, brave and quick tempered Eijiro takes revenge on the death of his close friend.

Five swordsmen are murdered and hung from a tree and the chase is on to find the killers. Two magistrates pursue the leads to solve the crime and it...