Santarô Marune

A lowly drunken samurai finds an abandoned baby in the woods and takes it home. A gift from a fox. But there's something special about the boy... (imdb)

In the early years of the Meiji Restoration, traditional Japanese sports were in decline, particularly sumo wrestling. In this movie, Chiezô Kataoka becomes the hope of the sport, rising to Nippon-ichi, "best in Japan", along with some heartbreak along the way.

Set in the late thirteenth century, Kakute kamikaze wa fuku (Thus Blew the Divine Wind, 1944) depicts an important historical event as the defense of southern Japan led by the Kono clan against the Mongol invasion in 1281. It features a full-scale hurricane destroying enemy ships, a cast of thousands to drown, and an all-star cast in the lead roles.

He may not look it, but Utaemon Ichikawa is the fastest runner in Kyoto, and the mainstay of his private mail company. At the moment, there is a personal and business crisis at hand. There is a mysterious fleet-footed thief around, and he is the prime suspect on the run and trying to find the bad guy; a plague is killing children in town, and the local doctor needs a Dutch medicine from Nagasaki, which his firm is supposed to pick up for distribution at cost.