Saburo Date Movies

1962 Japanese movie

As a child, Okin the one-armed one-eyed swordswoman was disfigured by Lord Daizen-dayu, who was after her family's most treasured possession, the...

The film is set in Kyoto at the end of the Tokugawa period, when there is a fierce clash between the supporters of the Emperor, who are fighting for...

It’s cross and double-cross in these further adventures of Ryuzen, the wayward priest played by Katsu Shintaro as he tries to help a woman who...

Fourth film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka

As winds of change sweep Japan, an honest man joins the Shinsengumi out of admiration for its leader, and because he wants to live and die as a...

A yakuza bodyguard is persuaded by Ōhara Yūgaku to take the farmers’ side.

A musical about the escapades of some tanuki passing themselves off as humans in human society.

1962 Japanese movie

1962 Japanese movie

A samurai is struggling to make ends meet at the end of the Edo period. He has students and, among other things, teaches them about the evils of the...

Nagasaki at the end of the Edo period had the taste of a criminal paradise, where, despite the exotic, dangerous work was always in demand. Here,...

1961 Japanese movie

Early film directed by Kenji Misumi.