Bored Hatamoto Collection

30 Movies

List for the original Bored Hatamoto films starring Ichikawa Utaemon.

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Bored Hatamoto

1930

Bored Hatamoto film #1

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Bored Hatamoto in Kyoto

1930

Bored Hatamoto film #2

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Bored Hatamoto Appears in Sendai

1931

Bored Hatamoto film #3

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Bored Hatamoto Returns to Edo

1931

Bored Hatamoto film #4

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Bored Hatamoto on a Rampage

1933

Bored Hatamoto film #5

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Bored Hatamoto on the Nakasendo

1935

Bored Hatamoto film #6

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Bored Hatamoto Judges 100,000-koku

1935

Bored Hatamoto film #7

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Bored Hatamoto on Mt. Fuji

1937

Bored Hatamoto film #8

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Bored Hatamoto Enters the Mountain of Treasure

1938

Bored Hatamoto film #9

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Bored Hatamoto Detective, Part 1: The Seven Brides

1950

Bored Hatamoto film #10

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Bored Hatamoto Detective, Part 2: Poisoning of the Demon Lord

1950

Bored Hatamoto movie #11

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Bored Hatamoto: The Demon of Chinatown

1951

Bored Hatamoto movie #12

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Bored Hatamoto: The Imposter

1952

Around 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.

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Bored Hatamoto Passes By

1953

Bored Hatamoto movie #14

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Bored Hatamoto: House of Skulls

1954

Bored Hatamoto movie #15

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Bored Hatamoto: The Million-ryo Mystery

1954

Bored Hatamoto film #16.

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Bored Hatamoto: The Mysterious Phantom Mansion

1954

Bored Hatamoto film #17

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Bored Hatamoto: The Mysterious Demon Palace

1955

In 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...

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Bored Hatamoto: Mysterious Letter of Challenge

1955

Bored Hatamoto film #19

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Bored Hatamoto: The Mysterious Ghost Ship

1956

Bored Hatamoto film #20

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Bored Hatamoto: Mysterious Crimson Tower

1957

Bored Hatamoto film #21

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The Mansion of Intrigue

1957

A swordsman must foil a minister's sinister plan to assassinate the shogun.

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Bored Hatamoto: Idle Vassal Tribute

19585.0

Master swordsman and loya '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.

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The Acrobats of Death

19595.8

Saotome, 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.

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Bored Hatamoto: The Daimonji Conspiracy

19596.0

Master swordsman and loyal vassal Saotome Mondonosuke goes on a mission to find a missing princess.

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Bored Hatamoto: Island of No Return

1960

Part 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.

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Ninja Assassins

19606.0

Saotome Mondonosuke pursues the culprit who placed a malicious curse upon Shogun Tsunekichi.

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The Cave of the Vampire Bats

19616.0

A 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?

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Bored Hatamoto: The Mysterious Coral Mansion

1962

Bored Hatamoto movie #29

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The Mysterious Cape

19636.0

Ryujin 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.

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