Juro Hoshi

A successful textile industrialist from the provinces, who is beloved by his employees for his kindness, cannot find a wife because of a disfiguring birthmark on his face. Even the courtesans in Yoshiwara refuse to entertain him, until an indentured peasant prostitute, Tamarazu, takes the unsavoury assignment and treats him with brash tenderness. (imdb)

AKA Ghostly Tales: The Shamisen

Twin princesses are separated at birth because there is a belief that twins bring bad luck to the family, Thus the twins are raised separately. Yukihime, the twin who was sent to Edo to be raised by a Yakuza family, returns after many years. She of the two is designated the heiress to the clan fortune, however some disagree... violently. (imdb)

Jiromaru (Kinnosuke Nakamura) investigates the dark "Ghost Ship" in search of his father. Meanwhile, Princess Yuki (Yumiko Hasegawa) and Chacha (Eiko Maruyama) are kidnapped by pirates, so after dedicating himself to rescuing them for the second time, he decides to accept his grandfather's challenge to become a navigator, just like his deceased father.