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Bored Hatamoto Collection
List for the original Bored Hatamoto films starring Ichikawa Utaemon.
Bored Hatamoto film #1
Bored Hatamoto
1930
Bored Hatamoto film #2
Bored Hatamoto in Kyoto
1930
Bored Hatamoto film #3
Bored Hatamoto Appears in Sendai
1931
Bored Hatamoto film #4
Bored Hatamoto Returns to Edo
1931
Bored Hatamoto film #5
Bored Hatamoto on a Rampage
1933
Bored Hatamoto film #6
Bored Hatamoto on the Nakasendo
1935
Bored Hatamoto film #7
Bored Hatamoto Judges 100,000-koku
1935
NRBored Hatamoto film #8
Bored Hatamoto on Mt. Fuji
1937
NRBored Hatamoto film #9
Bored Hatamoto Enters the Mountain of Treasure
1938
NRBored Hatamoto film #10
Bored Hatamoto Detective, Part 1: The Seven Brides
1950
NRBored Hatamoto movie #11
Bored Hatamoto Detective, Part 2: Poisoning of the Demon Lord
1950
NRBored Hatamoto movie #12
Bored Hatamoto: The Demon of Chinatown
1951
NRAround the Genroku era, there was a man named Saotome Shusui-no-Suke, nephew to the senior councilor Matsudaira Sakon Shogen. He was commonly known as the Bored Samurai of the Hatamoto rank. Just as he was engulfed in boredom, Tokugawa Jo-Kaibo, claiming to be the Shogun's illegitimate child, made a grand entrance into Edo. At the behest of Sakon Shogen, Shusui-no-Suke was tasked to investigate Jo-Kaibo's background and had his young page Kyoya disguise as a woman to infiltrate Jo-Kaibo's gun mansion.
Bored Hatamoto: The Imposter
1952
NRBored Hatamoto movie #14
Bored Hatamoto Passes By
1953
NRBored Hatamoto movie #15
Bored Hatamoto: House of Skulls
1954
NRBored Hatamoto film #16.
Bored Hatamoto: The Million-ryo Mystery
1954
NRBored Hatamoto film #17
Bored Hatamoto: The Mysterious Phantom Mansion
1954
NRIn Kyoto, a samurai named Boredom Otoko, Saotome Mondonosuke , appears and helps a woman being chased by a spy named Genshichi. Unfortunately, the woman is shot and killed. Later, Genshichi explains that the woman was a member of a band of thieves, and because she was let go once, the police officer, Genjuro Mazaki, was demoted to a desk job. Consumed by guilt, Boredom Otoko...
Bored Hatamoto: The Mysterious Demon Palace
1955
NRBored Hatamoto film #19
Bored Hatamoto: Mysterious Letter of Challenge
1955
10.0Bored Hatamoto film #20
Bored Hatamoto: The Mysterious Ghost Ship
1956
NRBored Hatamoto film #21
Bored Hatamoto: Mysterious Crimson Tower
1957
NRA swordsman must foil a minister's sinister plan to assassinate the shogun.
The Mansion of Intrigue
1957
5.5Master swordsman and loyal 'Hatamoto' (direct vassal to the Shogun), Saotome Mondonosuke, is sent to investigate an intrigue centering on the Date Clan. The 300th film in the long and illustrious career of Ichikawa Utaemon, one of the most popular Japanese film stars of the period; it brought out an all-star cast as well.
Bored Hatamoto: Idle Vassal Tribute
1958
5.8Saotome, a sword master and guard of the Shogunate, pursues the mystery of a deadly aerial weapon that is responsible for the multiple deaths in town.
The Acrobats of Death
1959
6.0Master swordsman and loyal vassal Saotome Mondonosuke goes on a mission to find a missing princess.
Bored Hatamoto: The Daimonji Conspiracy
1959
NRPart of the Bored Hatamoto series. The most popular samurai in Edo, Saotome Mondonosuke, known to most as the "Bored Hatamoto" is the only one who can save the shogunate from the dastardly plot to take over the country.
Bored Hatamoto: Island of No Return
1960
6.0Saotome Mondonosuke pursues the culprit who placed a malicious curse upon Shogun Tsunekichi.
Ninja Assassins
1960
6.0A maiden is murdered by a mysterious ninja, unfortunately two young ladies witness this, good thing the bored Lord is walking by, he saved the girls but was too late to save the maiden, quickly he finds himself mixed up in a mystery of murdered maidens, an unknown ninja clan, attempted assassinations towards himself and a cursed vampire bat cave, can the bored Lord solve this puzzle before maidens lose their lives?
The Cave of the Vampire Bats
1961
NRBored Hatamoto movie #29
Bored Hatamoto: The Mysterious Coral Mansion
1962
6.0Ryujin Misaki, located at the edge of the Genkai Sea, is known as an isolation ward for leprosy patients. When Saotome, a sword master and guard of the Shogun, hears news of a doctor gone missing, he begins to suspect that things are not what they seem at Ryujin Misaki. Intent on discovering the truth, Saotome launches a private investigation.
The Mysterious Cape
1963