During the ultra-violent era of the downfall of the Tokugawa Shogunate one man rose above the rest with his ideas of how to overthrow the corrupt government and end the bloodshed between the Choshu and Satsuma clans which would ultimately lead to the alliance of these 2 clans and restoration of the emperor to full power. Based on the play that made Sawada Shojiro famous, this is the story of Tsukigata Hanpeita, a forward looking samurai from Choshu, who along with Katsura Kogoro and Sakamoto Ryoma of Tosa worked to bring their dream of a new era in Japan.
A Japanese melodrama about three sisters, rival fashion companies, and attempted murder by overheated bathroom.
19세기 말의 도쿄, 기쿠노스케는 가부키계 명가에 양자로 들어간다. 그러나 기쿠는 자신을 향한 후한 평가는 모두 아버지의 후광에 힘입은 것이며 등 뒤에선 모두 자신을 흉본다는 것을 안다. 집안의 유모 오토쿠만이 기쿠의 단점을 솔직하게 지적하고 격려한다. 그러나 기쿠가 하녀와 가까이 지내는 것을 염려한 집안에서는 오토쿠를 내쫓고 그녀를 사랑한 기쿠는 오토쿠와 함께 떠나게 되는데...
dir: Teinosuke Kinugasa
Hikobei
Two cowardly palanquin carriers know the culprit of a murder but are too scared to report it to the police. In the mean time, an innocent man is arrested as the murderer and chaos ensues. Pre-war jidaigeki film.
Town official
An onnagata (female impersonator) of a Kabuki troupe avenges his parents' deaths. Remade in 1963 as Yukinojô Henge.
In medieval Japan, a brutal and corrupt magistrate is planning to kill the child who is about to become the heir to the estate and position of the local lord and substitute his own "heir", an orphan, in order to get control of the late lord's estate and rule as the impostor's "regent". However, a mysterious stranger appears and sets out to thwart the magistrate's plans and free the people from his oppressive rule.
