Shintarō Katsu Movies

The second film in the "Suruga yukyoden" series, in which Shintaro Katsu plays Jirocho Shimizu. The film features Omasa, Komasa, Ocho, who will...

A television drama aired on November 3, 1983 as a special project to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the founding of Yomiuri Television and the...

Late romance by acclaimed filmmaker Kinugasa Teinosuke.

The warlords overrun the country while the farmers are starving, and forced to become soldiers to keep the wolf from the door. The farmers are...

A Girl isn't Allowed to Love is a 1955 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.

A remake of Kaidan Saga yashiki (1953).

The first film in the 2 part series about Ryuzen, a renegade martial-arts priest who, in addition to breaking all the commandments against sex and...

The story of Sasaki Kojiro, a young swordsman, and his quest to train under master Seigen and develop his own style.

Soft-Boiled Goro is a 1970 film directed by Kazuo Ikehiro

Film adaption by Kenji Misumi

1958 Japanese movie

A documentary about the character created for a series of Japanese films starring Shintaro Katsu. There are behind-the-scenes interviews on the set...

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...

Ali the Fighter was made in 1975, when the Muhammad Ali-Joe Frazier fight was still fresh in everyone's minds. Filmmaker William Greaves frames Ali's...

A 1961 film directed by Yoshiyuki Kuroda.

A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly.