Atsushi Watanabe Movies

Bored Hatamoto film #20

In the eleventh year of the Tenpō era, the Kawarazaki-za theater in Edo buzzed with excitement for a new production of "Kanjinchō" by...

A former samurai, whose lover had died while he was traveling, was returning to Edo when he met a woman at Shinagawa-juku.

Japanese silent film from 1928.

A hard-working new employee at a trading company is promoted through the company president's business. However, he quarrels with his wife over...

1950 Japanese movie

Shinzō, the heir of the prominent Edo lumber dealer Yamashiroya, left home when his stubborn father, Chōzaemon, dismissed his lover, the...

1962 Japanese movie

1948 adaptation of Golden Devil

Japanese silent film from 1925 featuring Kinuyo Tanaka.

A village samurai with money, power and great masculinity goes to the flourishing city of Edo to have some fun and practice. And here he is attacked...

Based on the comic by Kaoru Akiyoshi

Bored Hatamoto film #19

A feature-length work based on Kan Kikuchi’s newspaper novel, adapted for the screen by Kōgo Noda. With performances by stars such as...

Japanese silent film from 1930 with an acclaimed performance by Sumiko Kurishima.