Number of Movies: 30
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List for the original Bored Hatamoto films starring Ichikawa Utaemon.
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October 17, 1930
Bored Hatamoto film #1
December 5, 1930
Bored Hatamoto film #2
July 9, 1931
Bored Hatamoto film #3
December 31, 1931
Bored Hatamoto film #4
August 10, 1933
Bored Hatamoto film #5
January 7, 1935
Bored Hatamoto film #6
February 8, 1935
Bored Hatamoto film #7
September 23, 1950
Bored Hatamoto film #10
April 14, 1938
Bored Hatamoto film #9
January 5, 1937
Bored Hatamoto film #8
Bored Hatamoto movie #11
September 7, 1951
Bored Hatamoto movie #12
January 14, 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.
January 22, 1953
Bored Hatamoto movie #14
January 3, 1954
Bored Hatamoto movie #15
August 31, 1954
Bored Hatamoto film #16.
December 27, 1954
Bored Hatamoto film #17
December 25, 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...
December 28, 1955
Bored Hatamoto film #19
July 12, 1956
Bored Hatamoto film #20
June 28, 1959
Master swordsman and loyal vassal Saotome Mondonosuke goes on a mission to find a missing princess.
January 9, 1959
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.
August 12, 1958
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.
December 28, 1957
A swordsman must foil a minister's sinister plan to assassinate the shogun.
June 29, 1960
Saotome Mondonosuke pursues the culprit who placed a malicious curse upon Shogun Tsunekichi.
January 9, 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.
August 1, 1961
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?
January 23, 1962
Bored Hatamoto movie #29
January 9, 1963
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.
January 15, 1957
Bored Hatamoto film #21
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