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The swordsman again crosses paths with the murderous Devil Mask Gang -- who as the name suggests, all wear hideous devil masks.
Akado Suzunosuke vs. the Devil in Crescent Moon Tower
Zatoichi comes upon a dying man who asks him to give a bag of money to "Taichi". Zatoichi has no idea who this is but when he comes upon a small town...
Zatoichi's Vengeance
The film depicts the scarring of Yosaburo at the hands of yakuza thugs who catch him with mistress of the gang boss. Despite the physical and...
Scarred Yosaburo
Ichi travels to the village of Itakura to pay his respects at the grave of Kichizo, a man he killed two years ago. When some tax money is stolen...
Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold
Early film directed by Kenji Misumi.
Asataro the Crow
The Phantom Samurai
Returning to the village where a year before he had killed Hirate, a much-admired opponent, Zatoichi encounters another swordsman and former rival in...
The Tale of Zatoichi Continues
One of Japanese folklore's most popular characters is brought to life on the silver screen in this terrific version of legendary Demon slaying Peach...
Freelance Samurai
The exciting story of Jirocho and his yakuza gang that controlled the area of the Tokaido during the latter days of the samurai era. Awesome...
Jirocho Fuji 2: The Chivalrous
Bara daimyo
Ojo-kichiza
A film about young wandering Yakuza. Yukio Hashi's first film role.
Straw hat of Itako
Otemoyan
Blind swordsman/masseuse Zatoichi befriends a young woman looking for her father, a village leader who has disappeared. As he helps her investigate...
Adventures of Zatoichi
Blind swordsman Zatoichi, jailed briefly, is implored by another prisoner to aid him in proving his innocence of a crime for which he is sentenced to...
Zatoichi and the Doomed Man
Adaptation of a famous Kyouka Izumi novel. Set in the early 1900's, it tells the story of the impossible love between a young scholar a beautiful...
Her Hidden Past
Hoodlum Soldier on the Attack
Hanpei is a gentle young samurai that loves flowers. One day, he witnesses an old man's quick draw of the sword. He is so impressed that he becomes...
Sword Devil
Learning of his family's collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the Golden Pavilion, must endure acute psychological...
Conflagration
Kojiki taishō
First movie of the Inu series directed by Tokuzō Tanaka
Homeless Dog
Nagasaki at the end of the Edo period had the taste of a criminal paradise, where, despite the exotic, dangerous work was always in demand. Here,...
Assassins for sale
In the 19th century Edo period, sisters Oshizu and Otaka have sacrificed their personal happiness to work and care for their ailing father. Otaka...
The Homely Sister
Sequel to "Island of Horrors" (獄門島, 1949).
Gokumon Jima: Kaimei Hen
Mysterious incident at a secret factory! Important documents lost! What is the true identity of the enemy's invisible spy?
The Man From Chungking
駿河遊侠傳 賭場荒し
Tsunamune Date, the young lord of Sendai Domain, was ordered by the shogunate to stand down after being spotted in a brothel. Shortly after, four...
The Demon of Sendai's Castle
母山彦
In Edo Japan, a kabuki actor seeks revenge against the three men who drove his parents to their deaths years ago.
An Actor's Revenge
Abare inu is a 1965 action-comedy film directed by Kazuo Mori. It is the fourth film in the series.
Rampaging Dog
Period drama based on the novel by Saisei Murō.
Jigoku bana
Early film by Kenji Misumi.
Flowery Brothers
Features a haunted well with yet another blind masseur's vengeful ghost.
The Old Temple Well
1962 Japanese movie
Hell's Assassin
The film won 1959 Blue Ribbon Awards for best actor Raizo Ichikawa and for best cinematography Kazuo Miyagawa. The film also won 1959 Kinema Junpo...
The Gay Masquerade
Retired police inspector Kurusu is vacationing at a seaside hotel when one night he hears a child's screaming...but there are no children staying in...
The Devil's toast
The mysterious Koga Ninja crushes the villains who are trying to take over the inheritance of the Omi castle owner using various means! A sword and...
Koga's Messenger
A unique story of a life of romance, divided into three episodes about the profound secrets of the path deeply rooted in the essence of human nature,...
Iro no Michi Oshiemasu: Yume San'ya
The tale of Katakana Yonetaro aka "The Shark," a rough-and-tumble horse trader in Japan's northernmost island of Hokkaido, despite being a father and...
The Life of a Horse Trader
A kabuki actress is murdered. Her pet cat laps its mistress's blood and becomes a demon possessed by the vengeful murder victim.
The Ghost Cat of Ouma Crossing
After arriving in the town of Shimonita, Ichi finds that a price has been put on his head by a local yakuza boss. He's drawn into a trap, but after...
Zatoichi the Fugitive
The film portrays a satirical view of today's heartless money-oriented society.
The Funeral Racket
Legendary yakuza Shimizu Jirocho and his 28 henchmen travel the unruly path from a 'Fire Festival' in Akiba to a decisive battle by the Fujigawa.
Jirocho Fuji
Two amiable samurai wind up on opposite sides of the vendetta between Lord Asano's retainers and the family of Lord Kira that led to the famous...
Samurai Vendetta
The Dai-bosatsu toge trilogy is based on Kaizan Nakazato's unfinished long series of novels (41 books, written from 1913 to 1941). Set in the last...
Satan's Sword
Onna no Toba, is the first film in long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin,...
A Woman's Gamble
Eleventh film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.
The Woman Gambler's Supplication
Fourth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.
Thoroughbred Women Gamblers
Fifth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.
The Woman Champion
Eighth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.
Woman Gambler and the Nun
Twelfth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.
Two Enemy Women Gamblers
Ichikawa Raizo’s last film. He plays a Yakuza enforcer who kills a man on his boss's orders. He’s then sent to a provincial town to lie...
Sworn Brothers
The further adventures of Takeshi Nanjo, the Young Boss.
Young Boss: Prison Release
Third film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.
The Sister Gamblers
Seventh film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.
The Woman Dicer
A series of murders has been committed by someone with a new model gun, a Mord-Gessel X 38. Indeed, Daisuke himself is almost killed while...
The Silent Gun
In the fourth film of series, Secret Assignment, Raizo again plays the Jiro Shiina. This time he's out to discover who is spying for the British in...
Secret Assignment
Utaji heard that her ex-lover Seijirou would get married to Ochiyo a daughter of Ise-ya. She murdered Ochiyo and took over the Ise-ya's shop with...
Obsessive Snake
Ronin samurai Ibuki-san enters a town and sells his skills to the warring families. He falls in love with the beautiful horse stable owner but like...
Bloody Shuriken
During the 1200's, legendary Buddhist monk Nichiren returns from his studies to lead Japan out of moral crisis and prepare to fight Mongol invaders...
Nichiren and the Great Mongol Invasion
Well before “Shogun” as warring clans were fighting for power throughout Japan, a Portuguese vessel ran aground off Tanegashima. Lord...
The Saga of Tanegashima
Warlord Oda Nobunaga seeks to unite a fractured Japan. A young man trained in the arts of ninjitsu is manipulated by a ninja master into attempting...
Ninja, A Band of Assassins
Kokubu, captain of his university's kendo team, is a mystery to those who know him: An ascetic dedicated to a point of obsession with the simplicity...
Ken
Tenth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.
The Woman Gambler's Revenge
A wandering gambler strolls into a village searching for his father's killer, unaware that the village is run by criminals who sell the poorest...
On the Road Forever
[Period Covered: 1570-1573] Towards the end of the Tenmon Era, Shogun Ashikaga`s powers were weakening by the day and many were there who planned to...
Shinobi no mono 8: The Three Enemies
Based on a novel by Tsutomu Mizukami, this haunting melodrama focuses on a young bamboo worker who takes his father's prostitute as his wife.
Bamboo Doll of Echizen
[Period covered: 1637-1651] This is one of the most complicated plots of any of the Shinobi no Mono films! This film tells the story of Saizo’s...
Shinobi No Mono 6: The Last Iga Spy
Wandering samurai Nemuri Kyoshiro (Raizô Ichikawa) finds a bulls-eye on his back after befriending the shogunate's tightfisted financial...
Sleepy Eyes of Death 2: Sword of Adventure
Fifth film in the series. When Kyoshiro, in a moment of weakness, saves the life of a woman being attacked on the road, he quickly finds himself...
Sleepy Eyes of Death 5: Sword of Fire
A decapitation at the hands of the shogun's monstrous misbegotten son kicks off the action and draws nomadic Nemuri Kyoshiro (Raizô Ichikawa)...
Sleepy Eyes of Death 3: Full Circle Killing
A fugitive christian "saint" (female, of course!) and a sadistic drug-addled princess both have their eye on Kyoshiro. The fact that a bunch of...
Sleepy Eyes of Death 4: Sword of Seduction
As winds of change sweep Japan, an honest man joins the Shinsengumi out of admiration for its leader, and because he wants to live and die as a...
Shinsengumi Chronicles
Gonpachi
Sixth film in the series. A little boy who just wants to be a carpenter is at the center of a plot that might topple -- or save -- a mighty Clan,...
Sleepy Eyes of Death 6: Sword of Satan
The masked daughter of the Shogun wants to kill a samurai who has seen her scarred face. She sends waves of ninja warriors to kill the samurai and...
Sleepy Eyes of Death 7: The Mask of the Princess
Nemuri Kyoshiro discovers a conspiracy centering around a band of disgruntled samurai wanting to avenge the death of their sensei, a political...
Sleepy Eyes of Death 8: Sword of Villainy
This is the story of a blind masseur who tricks people, steals, and kills; he is the anti-Zatoichi
The Blind Menace
The Fencing Master tells the story of a man trying to survive as the only world he knows is becoming increasingly irrelevant. Danpei Ichikawa lives...
The Fencing Master
An Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six years in search of spiritual enlightenment. Siddartha...
Buddha
Fascinated with women from an early age, Yonosuke had his first sexual encounter at the age of seven. From that day on, he recklessly and forwardly...
A Lustful Man
When a local gambling house kidnaps some peasants because they failed to pay their debts, a rival gambling house pays their debts and sets them free.
Zatoichi the Outlaw
Ichi is staying at an inn when a woman dies. Her dying wish is that Ichi take her son to his father, an artist living in a nearby town. After...
Zatoichi Challenged
Follows the murder of a money-lending masseur by an impoverished samurai. The slain masseur's daughter will also fall victim to his curse, so that...
Ghost Story: Depth of Kasane
Ninth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.
Champion Woman Gambler
19th century Japan, at the end of the Edo period. A samurai falls in love with a young woman while taking up arms to overthrow the local shogunate.
Maiko and the Assassin
The Front Line Showdown
Bad Reputation: The Notorious Harbor
Bad Reputation: The Notorious Men and Their Specialty
A naively honorable samurai comes to the bitter realization that his devotion to moral samurai principles makes him an oddity among his peers, and a...
The Betrayal
Zatoichi runs afoul of some evil fugitives, working for a corrupt law official.
Zatoichi and the Fugitives
The Magnificent Five
Ken ni kakeru
The Gambling Samurai
Young Boss: Invitation to Fight
The Young Swordsman
The Magistrate
The Dancer and Two Warriors
Notebooks of Heiji Zenigata: Spider on the Skin
Sentaro (Raizo Ichikawa) from Ipponmatsu sets out to commit evil and gain dignity, but his good-natured nature does not allow him to do anything bad....
Song of Sado
Kayama Ichinoshin (Raizo Ichikawa) has been traveling for ten years in search of revenge for his father. One day, Ichinoshin reunites with his...
Flowers of Chivalry
Fate begins to smile upon young Chonosuke Tokugawa, son of eleventh Tokugawa Shogun, after some twenty years of life as a dependent at his...
The Lord and the Gambler
Yutaro kodan
Being acquainted with the bride's uncle, a famed private detective is invited to a wedding ceremony. The groom's family is moneyed and owns large...
Three-Fingered Detective
On the night of the summer Obon festival, Hagiwara Shinzaburo meets a beautiful courtesan named Otsuyu. Not knowing she's a ghost, he becomes...
The Bride from Hades
The Young Lord
Zangiku monogatari
Migratory Birds of the Flowers
Adaptation of the original story by Hida Yoshiro, whose depiction of the world of the yakuza is unparalleled. Gisuke, a weather-beaten yakuza with...
Tōkaidō wa kyōjō tabi
Based on the old tale of Jiraiya, this 1937 version is essentially a revenge story with fantastic visuals.
Jiraiya
Koina no Ginpei
Tired of everyday life, the 8th Shogun Yoshimune flees Edo Castle and asks Ooka Echizen to become his personal assistant. In a rice shop, Yoshimune...
The Man Disappears Yesterday
An industrial espionage film.
Spy on the Masked Car
A 1961 film directed by Yoshiyuki Kuroda.
Oniisan to oneesan
The TV drama of Ima Harube was adapted by Yagi Ryuichiro ("Komuso Henge"), directed by Mori Issei ("I Am Fujikichirou"), and cinematographed by Honda...
Marathon Samurai
1961 Japanese movie
晴小袖