Última de las veintiséis películas basadas en el personaje de Zatoichi interpretado por Shintarô Katsu. La película comienza con Zatoichi encerrado entre rejas, no obstante le dejan pronto en libertad y decide ir a visitar a un viejo amigo.
An honorable yakuza syndicate deeply rooted in Kyoto fights for survival when a new breed of gangsters threaten their very existence.
Detective Yamato
A re-edit of the 1968 Agon miniseries. Released by Toho Video in the 1980s
Matsui
Mientras investigaba lo que aparentemente eran dos bolas brillantes que se perseguían una a otra, el oficial patrullero científico Hayata resulta muerto cuando uno de los ovnis choca accidentalmente con el Mini-VTOL que pilotaba. El ser que maneja el ovni, un gigantesco alien rojo y plateado procedente de la Tierra de la Luz en la galaxia Nebula M78, se siente responsable de la muerte. En compensación, decide entregar su fuerza vital al terrícola, devolviéndole así la vida. Al mismo tiempo le entrega un artilugio, llamado la Cápsula Beta, la cual, cuando es necesario, transforma en secreto a Hayata en un gigante alienígena que será conocido como Ultraman.
Namihei Isogai
A painter leaves his family to paint the homes of his rich clients. A lonely, ruthless samurai falls in love with the painter's wife and rapes her. He later murders the painter and his servants. From the afterlife, the painter's ghost seeks revenge on the samurai, and saves his wife and newborn child.
Naminosuke Takahashi
In 1870's Tokyo, Den steals to support the daughter of her first marriage and her consumptive second husband. She falls in love with a young policeman, but is coerced into becoming the mistress of and procurer for a vice boss.
Juzaburo Shimada
Harada Kai, the Date clan's Chamberlain attempts to take power from the lord himself.
Chie, who's chosen as 'Ms. Woman Diver', and her friend Yuki, have been missing for several days after they left for Tokyo to be interviewed by a magazine. Later, Yuki is found dead in the sea. Yoshi, Chie's sister, along with sailor Shunsuke, try to find Chie. Soon they learn about a conspiracy with diamonds in a ship sunk in the sea.
Meiji Tenno portrayed the ramp up to the Russo-Japan War. In addition to showing the political events that led to war, it also showed the era from the story of a farm family in rural Japan who sent their son off to war. As such, it could be considered an anti-war movie, showing how, while war is devised by governments, the people do not really understand what war is, and it's combatants often do not know what they are fighting for.
1957 crime film directed by Toshio Shimura for Shintoho.
Kato
20th film adaptation of the novel Ono ga tsumi (published 1900-1901).
Japanese romance film.
Japanese film.
