Hiroo Nozu

Joji Kano (Sonny Chiba) es un detective de una pequeña ciudad de Okinawa que ha sido contratado por una mujer que quiere encontrar a su hija Yuna que desapareció hace cinco años. Cuando el cuerpo de una prostituta es quemado de forma que es imposible de reconocer quien era en un incendio provocado, la policía vincula este cuerpo con el de la niña desaparecida llamada Yuna que Jiro ha estado buscando. Poco convencido de que ese cuerpo es verdaderamente el de Yuna, Jiro comienza a investigar por su cuenta.

A police investigator cracks down on yakuza business, but once he realizes the police are in negotiations with certain factions, he sides with his own syndicate of choice.

Action-comedy film featuring the adventures of an itinerant merchant (Hiroki Matsukata) that becomes an unlikely hero.

In the beginning of the World War I in 1914, Japan is being invaded spies from Russia and Germany. To eliminate the spies the army hires Sakuragi, a famous Karate and Kempo master.

The most dangerous hired gun in Tokyo's underworld has managed to trigger a vicious gang war, and now, there's a contract on his life. Though nobody is more skilled in the arts of dealing death, can the tattooed hitman fend off the entire Japanese mafia as he searches for the man who wants him dead?

Monjiro, reunited with his long lost sister, is pursued by a yakuza gang because he killed their boss. He also meets a fellow gambler who idolizes Monjiro. The gambler and Monjiro's sister are pulled into a conspiracy to get to Monjiro, but do things go as planned?

El capítulo final Hibotan Bakuto serie. Oryu la Peonía Roja visita a un viejo jefe que está muriendo de una familia de aliada y promete que ella ayudará con el nuevo Jefe. Mientras tanto una guerra estalla. Cuando la familia es traicionada desde dentro y la familia rival recurre a la violenta, Oryu toma las cosas por sus propias manos …

Hirosuke, encerrado en un manicomio, no recuerda más que algunos retazos de su niñez, y tampoco recuerda las circunstancias por las que él, estudiante de medicina, se ha visto recluido en dicho centro. Después de que otro interno intente estrangularle, consigue escapar y, gracias a una chica que trabaja en un circo, deducir que su pueblo natal está en algún lugar de la costa del Mar del Japón. Sin embargo, la chica es asesinada y Hirosuke tomado por el asesino, por lo que debe huir nuevamente.

Un médico forense se pregunta por qué su esposa ha muerto. Investiga los extraños casos de asesinatos de mujeres...

A story of yakuza lynching during the Edo, Meiji, and Showa periods.

La revolución industrual viene a Japón con la introducción del sistema de ferrocarril. Esto condujo a choques entre barqueros, amenazado los trabajadores de la construcción de ferrocarril. Oryu la Peonía Roja vuelve a su casa en Kumamoto para aceptar su posición como el segundo líder de generación de la Familia Yano. Pero la ceremonia es interrumpida por lucha entre barqueros locales y trabajadores de ferrocarril. Y parece que una familia rival tira las cuerdas detrás de los choques...

Situado en el período Tokugawa (o Edo), es la primera de las películas de la Serie los placeres de la Tortura de Teruo Ishii. Esta primera película retrata una sucesión de mujeres que son decapitadas, quemadas vivas en la hoguera y partidas en dos por bueyes. La película adopta un enfoque acrónimo de tres historias cortas que todo culminará en largas sesiones de tortura.

When the Shogun Tokugawa III is in bed with a girl, she turns into a monster. The court believes she is Ninja Magic, used to frighten the lord off women so that there will be no heir. Tôma, a famous swordsman, is called in and exposes the Ninja, even discovering their leader, a beautiful young girl named Kagiroi. Guessing that she is the daughter of some ousted daimyo anxious to get back into favor, he is about to unmask her when he is taken prisoner...

A touching story following young shamisen string maker, Saku. Beautiful Saku moves to Lake Yogo, known for its production of quality shamisen strings, only to find her peaceful life turned upside down when a master musician takes personal interest in her.

Part one.

Famous enka singer Saburo Kitajima stars as Katsuji, a traveling craps artist who finds great camaraderie on the road.

A good set-in-per-WW2 ninkyô type film with outstanding performances.

Three Iga ninja are on a hunt for Chidoken, a Takeda ninja sent out to assasinate Lord Nobunaga.

A young yakuza, Yatappe, wanders around the country in search of his long-lost little sister, Oito. While traveling, he rescues a young girl, Osayo, whose father entrusts her to him with his dying wish. To honor his promise to Osayo's deceased father, Yatappe brings her to safety, and from a distance keeps a watchful eye on her well being.

Fifteen years after Ishida Mitsunari lost in the battle of Sekigahara, Tokugawa Ieyasu foresees his unavoidable battle with Toyotomi Hideyori and goes into Fushimi Castle. At the night, Hattori Hanzo, the leader of 36 Iga members who were performing as guards of the castle, perceives the existence of a ninja and captures the mysterious sneaker.

China, siglo V. Un soldado chino (Yuen Biao), que lucha en una guerra civil, huye del conflicto junto con un soldado enemigo (Sammo Hung) hacia la mítica montaña Zu, donde se une como discípulo a un mágico espadachín (Adam Cheng) cuya misión es la de encontrar las legendarias "espadas gemelas", las únicas armas que son capaces de destruir a un ser demoníaco que busca ingresar al mundo de los seres humanos proveniente del más allá. Momentáneamente un anciano con largas pestañas (Sammo Hung) contiene al espíritu maligno, pero el espadachín es envenenado y su única esperanza son las artes curativas de la bella Condesa (Brigitte Lin).

In this first episode, we are introduced to Takezo, what Musashi used to be before he became the man of legend. His beginning are not exactly auspicious. He sides with the Toyotomi at Sekigahara, and as a result finds himself on the losing side of the historic battle. He and his friend Matahachi manage to escape the slaughter although the latter is wounded in his leg. They stumble across the young Akemi who makes her living with her mother Oko by robbing corpses of their armor and anything else they can sell. Oko takes it into her head to seduce Matahachi, which she does first by skillfully sucking the gangrene from his blood, and then just by sucking.

In 17th century Japan, Young Lord Masato returns after years abroad to find everything changed: his peace-loving father has died in what he soon finds to be mysterious circumstances, and his mother's married to his uncle, whose ruthless ambition is causing turmoil in the kingdom. Not knowing who to trust, Masato feigns madness, vowing to get to the truth, even though his act causes distress to the girl he loves, who's waited for him all these years. The ghost of his father turns up now and then to show him the way. Meanwhile a peasant revolt is brewing... It all ends tragically.

A kindhearted wandering gambler named Hajiro gets involved in a crisis of a village as he passes through and decides to lend a sword in hopes to rescue them.

Chambara, comedia y musical, con tanta acción como dulzura y buen humor. La peli es la historia de Ishimatsu, un joven que se ve envuelto en una venganza entre clanes yakuzas y el rescate inesperado de una pequeña princesa. Está protagonizado por una actriz de culto como Hitori Misora, haciendo este papel masculino, lo que agrega un particular encanto, sumado a la presencia del legendario Tomisaburo Wakayama (Lone Wolf and Cub). Absolutamente flipeantes las imágines fantásticas del viaje en tortuga al Palacio del Dragón, en el fondo del océano, con un musical deliciosamente bizarro acompañado por el Bolero de Ravel.

Oda Nobunaga (1534–1582) was a major daimyo during the Warring State period of Japanese history. He was the second son of Oda Nobuhide, a deputy military governor with land holdings in Owari province. Nobunaga lived a life of continuous military conquest, eventually conquering a third of Japanese daimyo before his death in 1582. Telling the story of his rise to prominence as he leads an army of 4,000 men against the 40,000 troops of Lord Imagawa Yoshimoto to prevent the arrogant daimyo from crushing the Oda clan and taking control of the entire nation. From a newly restored anamorpic widescreen print, this is the ultimate warlord movie.

Tasuke stumbles across Kokichi, a distraught man whom having lost his fiancee to Lord Kawakatsu is ready to commit suicide. Tasuke learns that Kokichi's fiancee, Otoyo, was a chambermaid whom Kawakatsu abducted in order to make her his concubine and Tasuke feels compelled to right this wrong. Meanwhile Kawakatsu is dealing in black-market lumber and receiving kick-backs but unbeknownst to him he is under investigation by Lord Izu, one of the Shogun Elders. Will Tasuke be able to rescue Otoyo from the clutches of Lord Kawakatsu and can Lord Izu put an end to his money hungry evildoings.