Kyôichi Satô

Three men sentenced to death are spared and changed into “shadows executioners”, a group of ruthless ninja working for mysterious high ranking officials. During their investigation on some illegal business, one of them, called “Yazuke the Viper”, finds his abandoned daughter, Ocho, who has now become a mistress of Denzo, a smuggler. After Yazuke’s death, Ocho is also recruited as a “shadows executioner”, with the task of completing her father’s mission.

Set in the icy wilderness of Hokkaido during the early days of the Meiji era, where the brutal warden of Kabato Prison terrorizes convicts sentenced to forced labor to build the roads needed to open up the territory.

A re-make of the classic story made for television in 1982.

　北海道を舞台に、誤って人を殺して警察に追われる男と、牧場を経営する母子の出会いと別れを描いた人情ドラマ。監督は“男はつらいよ”シリーズの山田洋次。北海道東部の酪農の町・中標津。風見民子は一人息子の武志を育てながら亡夫の残した牧場をひとりで切り盛りしていた。そんなある日、激しい雨の降る夜、一人の男が民子の家を訪れ、民子は納屋を提供する。その晩、牛のお産があり、男はそれを手伝うと、翌朝、去っていった。男が再びやってきて、働かせてくれと願い出た……。

Kumokiri Nizaemon, a former samurai warrior, has abandoned his class to become the leader of a gang of thieves. He leads his outlaws in an attempt to rob the castle of his former clan.

Legendary detective returns

A bad cop is engaged in a violent chase to catch a yakuza boss. In his absence his wife runs away with another man, who turns out to be the very same man that her husband is hunting. Once he discovers this, he loses his nerve and turns in his badge. But the chase turns into a personal vendetta where the ex-cop plans to wipe out the entire gang.

A karate master played by Sonny Chiba is attacked and left crippled and blinded in one eye. He trains his daughter (Etsuko Shihomi) with the intention of her avenging not only himself but a murdered friend.

Japan, 1948: Hiroki Matsukata stars as a man facing a nine year prison sentence. He incites prisoners of Shimane Prison to the biggest riot in jail history. A fighter by heart, he sees a way out of any situation, but will he survive this, the gutsiest assault ever attempted?

A group of prisoners attempts to break the Abashiri prison. This film can be considered a sequel to the Abashiri Bangaichi series, written and directed by Ishii Teruo. The friendship between two men on death row, a fleeting love affair with a traveling dancer and a deadly battle with the real culprit who has hunted him down filmed over a long period of time on location in Hokkaido.

1950年（昭和25年）秋、広島県呉市の極道組織・山守組組員の三好万亀夫は、組の命令で対立組織の浅田組長を襲撃する。この事件で三好は懲役11年の刑にて服役。三好の服役の間に山守組は大きく成長するが、組内は組長・山守義雄と若頭・青木尚武とが対立し、幹部組員の難波茂春や坂上元もそれぞれの思惑で行動するようになる。山守と青木は刑務所の三好にそれぞれ面会を求め、互いに相手の中傷をして自陣営へ引き込もうと画策する。

In the sixth and final film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, the final conflict between Ogami Itto and the Yagyu clan is carried out.

インテリやくざ・安藤昇、ゴロやくざ・菅原文太、金筋やくざ・小林旭、影の顔役・丹波哲郎の＜BIG4＞が暴力街に集結した！全国制覇を狙う関西広域暴力団が、遂に最後の拠点・東京に進出してきた。銀座のクラブ買収を口火に、関西VS関東の凄まじいやくざ戦争の幕が切って落とされる!!巨匠・五社英雄監督が、アクション映画の醍醐味を存分に盛り込み描いた大スペクタクル暴力巨編！

When a rebellious roughneck enlists in the Navy and goes on a rampage against his superiors, he is sent to the Yokosuka Naval Prison.

In the fifth film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto is challenged by five warriors, each has one fifth of Ogami's assassin fee and one fifth of the information he needs to complete his assassination.

When 150 guns are stolen from Iwakuni base and two police officers are shot dead, a detective criminal tries to find out the truth.

A Ronin with a death wish reluctantly joins the Clan of the Forgotten Eight, a nasty crew of ronin who are wrapped up in a clan war over local prostitution.

女囚さそりこと松島ナミは法務省巡閲官の目前で、刑務所長の郷田の隻眼めがけ、尖らせたスプーンの柄を突き刺した。女囚逹への憎悪を燃やす郷田は、石切場の重労働を与えた。ナミは、郷田の企みにより看守の辻らに凌辱される。看守らの隙を突き彼らを殺害し、ナミ、大場ら女囚逹７人は脱走を図る。

The third movie following the exploits of bounty hunter Shikoro Ichibei. The theft of almost a half ton of gold from the shogunate's official mine threatens to bankrupt the government of Japan. Despite a desperate search the gold has not been found, causing officials of the Tokugawa bakufu to call on their most skillful secret agent, Shikoro Ichibei.

In this first film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, adapted from the manga by Kazuo Koike, we are told the story of the Lone Wolf and Cub's origin. Ogami Itto, the official Shogunate executioner, has been framed for disloyalty to the Shogunate by the Yagyu clan, against whom he now is waging a one-man war, along with his infant son, Daigoro.

Exciting fight of a secret police detective over secret of a diamond.

A disgraced yakuza member, framed for the murder of his boss, emerges from prison eight years later with revenge on his mind.

After going to prison for killing the boss of the Kanno gang, Seji Iwahashi (Tatsuya Nakadai) gets released early -- only to find that his former gang has merged with the Kannos. But with bitter resentments lingering on both sides, how long will it be before the bloodshed begins anew? Set in 1926 Japan, this serpentine crime thriller from director Hideo Gosha also stars Toshio Kurosawa and Isao Natsuyagi as Iwahashi's closest ally.

Zatoichi is a blind massage therapist and swordsman who finds out that something troubling is taking place on the outskirts of town. After discovering who the guilty parties are -- an accomplished Chinese martial artist named Wang Kang and his youthful attendant -- Zatoichi finds them and discovers that the pair's mixed up with a dangerous bunch of terrorist samurai who murdered the boy's parents. Now, Zatoichi must step in to save the day.

Fresh out of jail, a smart-mouth wise guy Goro takes the name “Big Brother Katsumata.” Not fitting in well with established gangs, he forms a rag-tag gang called “the Shinjuku Brothers.” The members of their gang are thugs who only wish they were traditional yakuza. When they turn up at the funeral for a gangster, they are not welcomed, but a senior boss intervenes to keep things calm. The boss of bosses invites them to join a respected local council of warlords. Katsumata is suspicious of why such powerful men would extend an invitation to lowlife like himself.

Ryotatsu, the wayward Priest blinded by Shinkai, the Wicked Priest, has his own story in this ultra-violent tale from the era of the Meiji Reconstruction. When a woman leaves her blind son at the Monastery, Ryotatsu is forced to teach the boy how to cope as a blind person in old Japan. When he takes the child with him on the road to find the boy's mother, they run afoul of not only yakuza gangsters, but some corrupt army officers have been trying to sway public opinion against the Satsuma rebels by posing as members of Saigo Takamori's group. It's a bloody mistake for them to underestimate the strength of the Blind Priest, and he'll make them pay with their lives!

藤純子の緋牡丹博徒シリーズでお馴染みの人気者熊虎親分を主人公にした若山富三郎新シリーズ第１作。日露戦争で大陸に渡った四国熊虎一家がお国のためにご奉仕しようと、軍の仕事を引き受けて九州熊本へと渡る。だが仕事を独占し不当な利益を貪る鎮台一家と激突。暴虐な手段で熊虎一家を潰しにかかる鎮台一家に、熊虎親分と緋牡丹お竜が挑戦。

網走刑務所で服役中の末広勝治は、満期まで後１年というところで懲役房入り17回の新記録を打ち立てていた。ある日、四国･松川刑務所から場外作業場新設のため初犯で成績優秀の囚人二人を移送して欲しいという依頼がきた。所長以下は末広を無理やり模範囚に仕立て上げ、大学出の囚人･宮田鉄夫と共に松川刑務所に送ることにした。四国で彼らを迎えたのは、刑務所長の後藤田と坪島どっく社長の坪島だった。坪島は囚人の矯正活動に熱心で、囚人たちを一般工員と同じ処遇で作業させ、働く喜びを体得させたいと思っていた。だが、この試みに町人たちは猛反発。人間不信の囚人たちも疑心暗鬼の目であった。

A guilt-haunted samurai warrior attempts to stop a massacre taking place.

A detective tries to outwit a jewel thief who has kidnapped the daughter of a jeweler to get to an exquisite diamond.

The Stranger comes across some bad guys trying to kill a Japanese emissary for a very important scroll. Before the emissary dies, he asks The Stranger to return the scroll to Japan. Once there he finds himself stuck in the middle of two rival clans and decides to play them off one against each other to free the town.

A private detective is hired to find a missing man by his wife. While his search is unsuccessful, the detective's own life begins to resemble the man for whom he is searching.

博徒あがりの一匹狼が、戦塵巻き起る満州大陸を舞台に、馬賊ゲリラや悪徳日本諜報機関を相手に真の日本人魂を謳いあげる。全篇の三分の二を台湾をはじめとした海外ロケで綴る、大スケールの男性アクション。

昭和30年前後、ある地方都市。刑務所を出所した速水は世話になった田島組に戻るが、田島組は新興勢力の本間組と対立していた。速水は組長の娘・敏子にひそかに好意を抱くが、田島組のある組員が本間組に射殺されてしまう。速水が単身、本間組に殴り込みをかけると警察に逮捕されて、ふたたび懲役へ。そこで昔なじみの流れ者・黒島と再会するが、黒島は本間組の世話になる身だった。塀の外では田島組と本間組の抗争が激化する。

Shimamura is a violent street thug who joins the yakuza & is merciless & unscrupulous on his rise, lacking any sense of either duty or chivalry. When imprisoned, he is repeatedly transferred from one prison to another, because no one can handle him.

極悪非道な大名のため主君をうたれ、敵討ちのため十一人の暗殺隊が編成された。第一、第二の決死の暗殺計画に失敗しながらも、なおも敵の大名の行列を追い続け、日光街道の山深い宿場を最後の決戦場として、命を懸けた驚くべき皆殺し作戦を決行する侍十一人。なにが彼らを狂わせたのか――！？かつてない画期的手法で描かれる集団大アクションを中心に、武士の悲劇的な側面を浮き彫りにして、時代劇の面白さ、素晴らしさを追求した野心作。

Kiba Okaminosuke finds himself entangled with a group of prisoners being transported to their executions, one of whom oddly looks exactly like his dead father. There are crooked gold miners, a beautiful girl who is unfortunately a complete lunatic and a dojo master who is obsessed with killing Kiba just to prove that his school's sword style is the best.

Part two.

金はなくとも人が好い素浪人・牙狼之介。彼は、抜きざま三人、振り下ろしてまた五人と、あっという間に人を斬る、居合斬りの凄い奴！五社英雄監督に抜擢された夏八木勲が、主人公・牙狼之介に扮して大迫力の殺陣を披露した主演デビュー作。

Loyal samurai Samanosuke is attacked, mutilated, and left for dead while carrying out a mission for his clan. He recovers but has lost an eye and an arm. Taking a new identity as Tange Sazen, he searches for a stolen urn which has hidden significance to his clan. But Tange Sazen has his own reasons for seeking the urn.

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

Legendary swordplay filmmaker Hideo Gosha's Sword of the Beast chronicles the flight of the low-level swordsman Gennosuke, who kills one of his ministers as part of a reform plot. His former comrades then turn on him, and this betrayal so shakes his sense of honor that he decides to live in the wild, like an animal. There he joins up with a motley group who are illegally mining the shogun’s gold, and, with the aid of another swordsman, gets a chance not just at survival but to recover his name and honor.

「黒髪」：妻を捨て、京都から遠い任地へと赴いた武士。そこで彼は、良い家柄の娘と結婚するが、彼女は冷酷な女で、男は今さら、別れた妻のことを思い出すのだった。やがて任期を終え、京都に戻った彼は最初の妻と再会するが…。「雪女」：きこりの巳之吉は、森へ薪を採りに入ったところで吹雪に遭い、山小屋に閉じ込められるはめに。その晩彼は、雪女の姿を目の当たりにし…。ほかに「耳無し抱一の話」「茶碗の中」の計4編。

丹波哲郎、平幹二朗、長門勇。若き日の大御所３人が暴れまわり、当時大人気となったTVシリーズの映画化。五社英雄の記念すべき初監督作品でもある。時代劇全盛期の迫力ある殺陣は今でもまったく色褪せない。