Directing

Kinnosuke Fukada

Born — Died

1917-01-19 — 1986-11-27

Place of birth

Shimane, Japan

Known for

Directing

Credits

28 titles

Known for

Girl with the Fire Banner poster
5.0

Fearless girl firefighter Oharu and skilled firefighter Shintaro battle against their evil rivals who threaten to take over Oharu’s family’s turf.

Girl with the Fire Banner

1958

Fireball Magistrate poster
NR

Two guardians of the Nijo Castle, Shioya and Kamazawa, discover a map leading to a secret passage to Edo Castle. Instead of reporting their find to local authorities, they decide to blackmail the lords who created the forbidden passage. To prove their crime, Magistrate Toyama Kinshiro launches a private undercover investigation.

Fireball Magistrate

1958

Ghost Story: One Eyed Jizo poster
10.0

A woman abandoned by the man she loved all her life becomes a ghost and takes revenge for her offense!

Ghost Story: One Eyed Jizo

1959

Feline Spirit poster
9.0

Go master Matashichiro Ryuzoji, during the game, was killed in anger by the Lord of the Nabeshima clan, Hizen-no-kami. The mother of the murdered Matashichiro, Akishino, cursing the Nabeshima family, commits suicide. Akishino's spirit passes to Matashichiro's beloved cat, and the monster cat appears in front of Hizen-no-kami along with Matashichiro's ghost...

Feline Spirit

1958

The Envoy poster
NR

Sinza who is secretly the well known "Sea Glow Burglar", gives to the poor the money he takes from the bad lords and greedy merchants, who live just to exploit the poor for their small coins. On his travel he meets a man and his little girl Onatsu. The man gets ambushed and killed in front of his daughter, so Sinza promises the man he will take his daughter safely to their destination, so the little girl is now his responsibility. The kind, non-violent Sinza now finds himself entangled in something far bigger than he expected.

The Envoy

1958

Case of a Young Lord 2 poster
NR

After getting permission to dig up the pawnbroker's grave, Young lord samurai was surprised to find the body was missing, as was the Gosu plate. He had a suspect in mind, and was able to use him to learn of the pawnbroker's hideout and try to piece together the parts of the puzzle. A superb and exciting conclusion to a very clever mystery story set during the Golden Age of Japan. With no easy questions and his life hanging in the balance, can Young lord solve the mystery and regain the valuable plate?

Case of a Young Lord 2

1956

Behind the camera

Girl with the Fire Banner poster
5.0

Fearless girl firefighter Oharu and skilled firefighter Shintaro battle against their evil rivals who threaten to take over Oharu’s family’s turf.

Girl with the Fire Banner

1958

Fireball Magistrate poster
NR

Two guardians of the Nijo Castle, Shioya and Kamazawa, discover a map leading to a secret passage to Edo Castle. Instead of reporting their find to local authorities, they decide to blackmail the lords who created the forbidden passage. To prove their crime, Magistrate Toyama Kinshiro launches a private undercover investigation.

Fireball Magistrate

1958

Ghost Story: One Eyed Jizo poster
10.0

A woman abandoned by the man she loved all her life becomes a ghost and takes revenge for her offense!

Ghost Story: One Eyed Jizo

1959

Feline Spirit poster
9.0

Go master Matashichiro Ryuzoji, during the game, was killed in anger by the Lord of the Nabeshima clan, Hizen-no-kami. The mother of the murdered Matashichiro, Akishino, cursing the Nabeshima family, commits suicide. Akishino's spirit passes to Matashichiro's beloved cat, and the monster cat appears in front of Hizen-no-kami along with Matashichiro's ghost...

Feline Spirit

1958

The Envoy poster
NR

Sinza who is secretly the well known "Sea Glow Burglar", gives to the poor the money he takes from the bad lords and greedy merchants, who live just to exploit the poor for their small coins. On his travel he meets a man and his little girl Onatsu. The man gets ambushed and killed in front of his daughter, so Sinza promises the man he will take his daughter safely to their destination, so the little girl is now his responsibility. The kind, non-violent Sinza now finds himself entangled in something far bigger than he expected.

The Envoy

1958

Case of a Young Lord 2 poster
NR

After getting permission to dig up the pawnbroker's grave, Young lord samurai was surprised to find the body was missing, as was the Gosu plate. He had a suspect in mind, and was able to use him to learn of the pawnbroker's hideout and try to piece together the parts of the puzzle. A superb and exciting conclusion to a very clever mystery story set during the Golden Age of Japan. With no easy questions and his life hanging in the balance, can Young lord solve the mystery and regain the valuable plate?

Case of a Young Lord 2

1956

Uta matsuri Akagiyama poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Uta matsuri Akagiyama

1962

Travels of Lord Mito: The Abominable Giant Monks poster
NR

Lord Mito, with his companions, comes to Sakai, Senshu, where the annual Minato Festival takes place. During the celebration, a mysterious incident occurs. The portable altar is attacked by a shaven-headed priest, and Ofuji, the daughter of a wealthy Senshu-ya merchant, disappears.

Travels of Lord Mito: The Abominable Giant Monks

1960

八州血煙り笠 poster
NR

1961 Japanese movie

八州血煙り笠

1961

The Hole in the Sand, The Contraption of the Love Affair poster
NR

Pinku from 1966.

The Hole in the Sand, The Contraption of the Love Affair

1966

Case of a Young Lord 3 poster
NR

Okawa Hashizo as 'Young Lord', the unlikely sleuth sets out to untangle the riddle of what went on at the Inner Palace, where a young woman who had served the Shogun came home in fear for her life. Will the Young Lord uncover the truth of what went on at the Palace, and does it relate to a series of murders that have been occurring just before the festival?

Case of a Young Lord 3

1956

The Black Hooded Man 4 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Black Hooded Man 4

1956

Denshichi Torimonocho: Man without Shadow poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie.

Denshichi Torimonocho: Man without Shadow

1962

Case of a Young Lord 1 poster
NR

As a result of illness and unemployment, Yamaoka Tatewaki, a "Hatamoto" (or direct vassal of the Shogun), pawned his family heirloom, a valuable Gosu plate for 100 ryo. When, of all occasions, Yokogawa Dewa came to visit and asked to see the Gosu plate on May 5th, Boy's Festival. Yamaoka then sent his steward to borrow the plate back, but the pawnbroker coldheartedly refused. He died soon thereafter of an unknown cause. Soon after that, two warehouses were broken into, but nothing was taken. When Detective Shokichi seeks the help of Young lord samurai, in solving these mysterious crimes that plague the town he takes the case and immediately surmises that the thief was looking for something special. Could the answer be hidden in the coffin of a deceased merchant who had his most valuable things buried with him. The tension mounts and the mystery deepens. Can Young lord solve the case?

Case of a Young Lord 1

1956

Detective Hibari: Secret of the Golden Coin poster
10.0

A princess finds life behind the protection of her brother and the high walls of the mansion to be quite dull, so she takes on another identity and lives in a small house in Edo pretending to be a singer but all the while she is actually a Shogunate Detective. Framed by a crooked magistrate for a crime she did not commit, Oshichi must clear her name of false charges after a woman helps to lead a prison break of the notorious Oshu Remnants. Meanwhile the magistrate, Lord Kai, conspires to be rid of her brother, Clan Elder, Lord Abe Iyo. Her only clue is an ornate dagger with a handle made of golden coins.

Detective Hibari: Secret of the Golden Coin

1958

Waka zakura kenka matoi poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Waka zakura kenka matoi

1962

Case of a Young Lord 6: Mermaid Murder Case poster
NR

The sixth episode of Hashizo Okawa's "Wakasama Samurai" catch series.

Case of a Young Lord 6: Mermaid Murder Case

1957

A Lawless Outpost poster
NR

1963 Toei film.

A Lawless Outpost

1963

Falcon Magistrate poster
NR

Toyama Kinshiro, a commissioner from northern Edo, goes undercover to unravel the mystery behind a series of murders. Kinshiro, played by Kataoka Chiezo, is most famous for the cherry blossom tattoos on his shoulder which he reveals at the moment of judgement.

Falcon Magistrate

1957

Ryuji, the Gun Slinger poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ryuji, the Gun Slinger

1960

Two Daimyos poster
NR

Yata, a boatman from Edo who is manipulated by the conspiracy of the Dewa Rokugo clan, is the spitting image of the young lord Yoshimitsu. The two young lords, the real one and the fake one, leave Edo and get mixed up on their journey. This is an exhilarating story in which Okawa Hashizo plays two roles, and love and swords are intertwined.

Two Daimyos

1957

Lord Mito Komon: World commotion poster
NR

Counselor Mito and his companions departed from Mito to see Kikutaro, a young lord of the shogun family, who became the new lord of Shirataka castle with an income of three hundred thousand koku. As they approach Shirataka's domain, a disturbing adventure begins. Soon, the advisor Mito and his companions reveal a conspiracy whose purpose was to capture the Shirataka castle and engage in a battle with the villains.

Lord Mito Komon: World commotion

1960

Pirates Magistrate poster
NR

As it turns out, the evil hand of drugs has reached the inner palace of the Shogunate. It was thought that the opium was coming from Nagasaki, but it turns out that it was reaching Edo through smuggling purchased from foreign ships. However, Nagasaki magistrate Toyama Saemon-no-jo is powerless to do anything about it, and his only hope is his own son, Kinshiro... In order to eradicate the great conspiracy lurking in the inner palace of Edo and the drug scourge, Toyama Kin-san disguises himself as a pirate and boards a smuggling ship, sailing across the Kuroshio Current to the port of Nagasaki in this thrilling and dashing tale of a villain who slays evil.

Pirates Magistrate

1957

Seafaring Lord poster
NR

The story of "Fuun Kuroshiomaru

Seafaring Lord

1956

Blood and Flesh poster
NR

Pinku from 1965.

Blood and Flesh

1965

Hiryū musō poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Hiryū musō

1955

Case of Young Lord 5: Death of a Beauty at Midnight poster
10.0

A young lord solves the mystery of multiple murders involving a young couple and a woman.

Case of Young Lord 5: Death of a Beauty at Midnight

1957

Zoku fūun kuroshio maru madara ōkami poster
NR

The story of "Fuun Kuroshiomaru:- Young Warrior of the South Seas

Zoku fūun kuroshio maru madara ōkami

1956