Hiroshi Mizuno Movies

The second film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass.

A young samurai who’s strong in love but weak in compassion, with a string of eccentric antics, diving into the water, wielding his spear, and...

By day, he is a young master whose beauty melts women’s hearts. By night, he is the elusive “White Hood.”

The first film produced by Daiei.

A tale of three Yakuza gamblers who traveled Japan during the samurai era living by their wits and sword skills. Told in 3 separate vignettes, each...

When Mr. Kurano, a shady Osaka tycoon, had his mistress Yuriko Haruyama run off on him, he hired the bumbling detective Hanawa to track her down....

A successful textile industrialist from the provinces, who is beloved by his employees for his kindness, cannot find a wife because of a disfiguring...

A kindhearted wandering gambler named Hajiro gets involved in a crisis of a village as he passes through and decides to lend a sword in hopes to...

Japan, 1137. The Taira family, a samurai clan, becomes involved in the disputes between Emperor Toba and the monks of Mount Hiei.

In 17th century Japan, Young Lord Masato returns after years abroad to find everything changed: his peace-loving father has died in what he soon...

A spearman who had long admired the samurai rises up after learning of cruelty of the samurai class.

Period drama directed by Yasushi Sasaki.

This is the story of Gonpachi, a ronin who falls in love with the daughter of a man he had killed many years before.

A film adaptation of the María Luz Incident from the early Meiji period that sparked widespread public debate.

As Japan’s Tokugawa shogunate nears the end of its rule, Edo North Magistrate Toyama no Kinsan is called upon to judge the most difficult case...

A tale of love and tears that blossomed in the shadow of the Seinan War.

The year is 1805. Napoleon ruled Europe. Ienari is the 11th Tokugawa Shogun. An incident, which was an open official secret, took place on the...