Acting

Kikutaro Onoe

Born 1907-01-12

Acting credits

Castle of Revenge poster
NR

The film vividly shows the misadventures of Oishi Kuranosuke and the human dramas inside the castle, which lead to the surrender of Ako Castle after seppuku by its lord Asano Takumi-no-kami and the termination of his family's power. This is the first film of the Ako Castle trilogy.

Castle of Revenge

1952

Chushingura poster
7.0

The vassals of the Asano clan, who surrendered the castle & became wanderers, deceive the enemy and the public, wait for an opportunity to avenge their master and his family.

Chushingura

1938

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kaidan Oiwa Yakusha

1938

Trouble Over Swords and Women:  A Woman's Mind poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Trouble Over Swords and Women: A Woman's Mind

1951

Edo Spring poster
NR

Kinshiro takes over the family, but he thinks he is going to replace the son of his stepmother but runs into trouble when he befriends the yakuza.

Edo Spring

1936

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Tales of a Drifter

1951

Taiko's Rising in the World poster
9.0

Taikoki is a legendary biography of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who rose to the office of taikō. And the story of this film is about the rise to power of Toyotomi Hideyoshi from a farmer's son.

Taiko's Rising in the World

1938

Echigo jishi-sai poster
NR

1960 version of Lion Festival of Echigo

Echigo jishi-sai

1960

Trouble Over Swords and Women: Sword Light and Shooting Star poster
NR

film directed by Tai Katô

Trouble Over Swords and Women: Sword Light and Shooting Star

1951

A Young Samurai poster
NR

A jidaigeki movie about the strange fate of Ranmaru Mori.

A Young Samurai

1955

The March of the Restoration poster
NR

The first film produced by Daiei.

The March of the Restoration

1942

The Tragedy of Bushido poster
10.0

A 16-year-old boy is ordered to commit ritual suicide to follow his deceased lord into death and preserve the honor of his clan. His elder brother's wife, who has raised him as if he were her own child, asks her husband for permission to spend a single night with the young man and teach him the pleasures of the flesh, out of motherly mercy and desire. However, the following day, a newly issued official decree changes everything...

The Tragedy of Bushido

1960

No artwork available
NR

The sequel to the 1935 film Great Bodhisattva Pass

Great Bodhisattva Pass 2

1936

No artwork available
NR

A film adaptation of the story “Gonzo and Sukejū” from a new perspective.

Yoimatsuri happyaku yachō

1947

Miyamoto Musashi - Dai-ichi-bu: Kusawake no hitobito - Dai-ni-bu: Eitatsu no mon poster
7.0

Second part of director Hiroshi Inagaki's 1940 adaptation of the story of Musashi Miyamoto.

Miyamoto Musashi - Dai-ichi-bu: Kusawake no hitobito - Dai-ni-bu: Eitatsu no mon

1940

Kuroshio hibun: Jigoku no hyakuman ryō poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kuroshio hibun: Jigoku no hyakuman ryō

1960

Dancing Mistress poster
8.0

Osen, a dance teacher who hates men, refuses to become the concubine of a rich merchant, but falls in love with the thief Sojiro, unaware that he is avenging the death of his brother. Jinzo, who wants to win over a rich merchant, pours boiling water on One's face...

Dancing Mistress

1957

Ninja Arts of Jiraiya poster
NR

Ninja film by Tai Kato

Ninja Arts of Jiraiya

1955

Political Theater poster
NR

1947 Japanese movie

Political Theater

1947

Shimizu Harbor Is More Frightening Than the Devil poster
NR

Early jidaigeki by Tai Kato.

Shimizu Harbor Is More Frightening Than the Devil

1952

Kuriyama Daizen poster
NR

Prewar jidaigeki starring Denjiro Okochi

Kuriyama Daizen

1936

No artwork available
NR

1956 Japanese film, originally released in three parts.

Kobushidake denki

1956

Echo of Love poster
NR

A man is brutally murdered and his famed shamisen (a three-stringed musical instrument) called the "Yamabiko" stolen. Prince Kogenta swears to avenge his father-in-law's death and retrieve the family heirloom.

Echo of Love

1937

Kobushidake denki: Kogane jigoku poster
NR

The 1st movie in the Kobushidake denki series.

Kobushidake denki: Kogane jigoku

1956