Kimiyoshi Yasuda

Vigésimo quinta de las veintiséis películas basadas en el personaje de Zatoichi interpretado por Shintarô Katsu. Después de más de veinte años, Zatoichi regresa a su pueblo natal donde conocerá a una hermanastra. Por otro lado, un viejo amigo de la infancia, se está aprovechando de los granjeros del pueblo para enriquecerse. Una vez más Zatoichi tratará de imponer la justicia con sus propios medios.

Renouncing any normal life the samurai has become the feared bounty hunter, "Devil" Hogan, the Mute Samurai. A master swordsman, Kiichi Hogan, wanders Japan in search of the Spanish swordsman who murdered his parents and slashed his throat 18 years before.

Vigésimo segunda de las veintiséis películas basadas en el personaje de Zatoichi interpretado por Shintarô Katsu. Un luchador manco chino llamado Wang Kong se encuentra con otra familia también china. Debido a que el hijo de la familia entorpece sin querer una procesión de ofrenda al shogunato, se inicia una reyerta en la que mueren el padre y la madre del niño. Zatoichi más tarde se encuentra al niño, y se queda con él momentáneamente hasta que después, se va con Wang Kong. Zatoichi decide ayudarlos a escapar, pero las cosas no salen como habían previsto.

Vigésimo segunda de las veintiséis películas basadas en el personaje de Zatoichi interpretado por Shintarô Katsu. Un luchador manco chino llamado Wang Kong se encuentra con otra familia también china. Debido a que el hijo de la familia entorpece sin querer una procesión de ofrenda al shogunato, se inicia una reyerta en la que mueren el padre y la madre del niño. Zatoichi más tarde se encuentra al niño, y se queda con él momentáneamente hasta que después, se va con Wang Kong. Zatoichi decide ayudarlos a escapar, pero las cosas no salen como habían previsto.

One murky night, Soetsu, a blind acupuncturist and money lender, calls on Shinzaemon Fukami, a Hatamoto samurai, to collect some money. But Fukami is too busy having an affair with a maid and curtly tells Soetsu to ask Sawano, his wife, for the money. As they have no money, Sawano interprets her husband's words as telling her to give herself to Soetsu in lieu of payment. However, Fukami catches them in the act and kills them both. Snatching up Soetsu's money bag with 30 ryo in it, he then asks two ruffians, to sink the bodies in a marsh. From what follows, it seems as if the spirits of Soetsu and Sawano are still hovering on earth in anguish and anger. For soon afterwards, Fukami is found dead by his own hand and Osono, Soetsu's younger daughter, suddenly disappears from home.

Takeshi Nanjo, a junior lieutenant in the navy whose father, the head of the Nanjo-gumi yakuza family, was killed, is forced to leave the army and become the head of the Nanjo-gumi in the second generation. He brutally chivalrously avenges the death of his father by a vicious yakuza linked to extremists within the army through the courage and swordsmanship of naval training!

As a child, Okin the one-armed one-eyed swordswoman was disfigured by Lord Daizen-dayu, who was after her family's most treasured possession, the famed Drenched Swallow sword. As an adult, she has become a skilled swordswoman and lives a carefree life with her adopted family. One day, Okin saves a girl from a group of yakuza, and in doing so, gets involved in a grand conspiracy involving religious leaders, government officials, the yakuza and Lord Daizen-dayu, the man who killed her father and mutilated her body...

Una joven muchacha llamada Miyo entra en posesión de un documento que podría arruinar al jefe de crimen local Kanzo. Este pronto manda asesinar al abuelo de la chica sobre tierra sagrada, provocando la liberación de yokai que ahora debe castigar la execración de su territorio.

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 low, only to be caught in another war orchestrated by his original boss who has set him up.

Japanese crime film

Zatoichi runs afoul of some evil fugitives, working for a corrupt law official.

The titular "tarantula" is a murderous woman who, along with the brother who is in love with her, kill without warrant because they are wealthy & above the law. Kyoshiro the homeless masterless wandering samurai has nothing to lose, & no scruples anyway, so can reproach even the powerful with ease. He is thus, for all that he has broad streaks of villainy all his own, a champion of the people by default.

Un avaro mercader intenta desalojar un poblado a pesar de la pobreza de sus habitantes. Pronto se verá atacado por un extraño séquito de criaturas que lo harán conocer el horror absoluto. Obra de terror japonés que rescata lo más profundo de las tradiciones mitológicas del país oriental.

The first film in the 2 part series about Ryuzen, a renegade martial-arts priest who, in addition to breaking all the commandments against sex and gambling, opens his own gambling den in direct defiance of the local yakuza boss. Exciting action and a twisty plot this movie breaks new barriers in Japanese cinema. Katsu Shintaro is superb in one of his better non-Zato Ichi roles as he fights off the advances of a love-lorn woman and risks his life to defeat the powerful gambling boss who has a stranglehold on the town.

Zatoichi comes upon the town of Tonda, overrun by gangsters. Using one of his favorite techniques, Zatoichi proceeds to win 8 ryo in a rigged gambling game. Of course, the local gangsters attempt to kill him, and the adventure begins. It turns out a blacksmith named Senzo examines Zatoichi's cane sword, and discovers it to be forged by his old mentor. Senzo discovers the sword is at the end of its usefulness and will break when it is used next.

En una montaña, una estatua de piedra lleva atrapada dentro el espíritu de un dios muy poderoso. Por ello los habitantes del poblado le rezan por la alma retenida. El señor feudal del lugar no le importa pero uno de sus hombres que se hace con el poder con un golpe de Estado, decide destruir el monolito de piedra. Es entonces cuando Majin se despierta gracias a una plegaria, monta en cólera y deja a las fuerzas del gobernador hechas trizas y va en su búsqueda.

The film is set in Kyoto at the end of the Tokugawa period, when there is a fierce clash between the supporters of the Emperor, who are fighting for the overthrow of the Shogunate, and the Shinsengumi squad, who are chasing them. Suddenly, a mysterious masked warrior appears, on a white horse he is called Tengu from Mount Kurama and he opposes the Shinsengumi.

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, and while the swords of some angry samurai may not cause Kyoshiro much trouble, the deadly wiles of two women may be more difficult to survive!

Novena de las veintiséis películas basadas en el personaje de Zatoichi interpretado por Shintarô Katsu. En esta novena entrega, Zatoichi trata de ayudar a una mujer que esta buscando a su padre, jefe de una aldea, que ha desaparecido. Por otro lado, otra mujer le pide ayuda para su hermano ya que este ha asesinado a alguien. ¿Estarán ambos casos relacionados?

A decapitation at the hands of the shogun's monstrous misbegotten son kicks off the action and draws nomadic Nemuri Kyoshiro (Raizô Ichikawa) into more sword-fighting adventures when he's blamed for the beheading. Meanwhile, the head-chopper's mother is busy knocking off the shogun's lawful heirs to secure the shogunate for her son.

Quinta de las veintiséis películas basadas en el personaje de Zatoichi interpretado por Shintarô Katsu. En esta quinta entrega, un viejo a punto de morir le pide a Zatoichi que acompañe a una joven hasta Edo. Zatoichi decide concederle ese último deseo y emprende el camino. Pero el viaje no resultará ni mucho menos tranquilo...

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 she can become empowered as an agent of her father's vengeance.

The magical swordsman battles a gang of cutthroats, who are led by a peg-legged villain.

Suzunosuke visits a martial arts master and tries to learn the 'Vacuum Slash,' a secret technique of producing tornadoes.

The heroic warrior uses his magical powers and great sword skills to battle a criminal gang who all wear devil outfits.

The film adaptation of the famous tragic love story of the young samurai Shirai Gonpachi and the beautiful courtesan Komurasaki.

The East Asian Acrobatic circus enjoys popularity after welcoming the Asuka brothers, two prestigious trapeze acrobats. One day, one of the brothers gets injured and a substitute needs to be found. Rumors start to float around concerning the circus clown and his grandiose acrobat career which ended tragically. Will he be able to reconcile with his tumultuous past and get the show running?