Masao Ôsumi

昭和12年。刑務所で同じ釜の飯を食った錠吉と玄造がともに出所。錠吉は、兄貴分を殺した仇敵を捜し求めて、売春宿に身を落とした兄貴分の女房を訪ねるが、既に彼女は死亡。そこで出会った売春婦のサキエから、自分を助けてほしいと頼まれた錠吉は、折しもその売春宿に遊びに来ていた玄造と一致協力して、サキエを足抜けさせることに成功する。やがて3人は、ひょんなことから知った海底に沈む財宝探しに夢中になる。

Zatoichi, the famed blind swordsman, returns to his home village for the first time in many years. He is befriended by Omiyo, who had the same wet-nurse as Zatoichi. He also encounters a boyhood friend, Shinbei, who now is wealthy and appears not to remember Zatoichi. Shinbei seems to be interested in repaying the villagers' debts, but is in reality manipulating the ownership of a now-valuable rock quarry. Zatoichi learns of the subterfuge and confronts his old friend, who has a score of yakuza swordsmen backing his play.

江戸北町奉行所の同心で、その切れ味鋭い頭脳と精力絶倫ぶりから“かみそり半蔵”との異名を取る板見半蔵。ある日、江戸市中で無宿人狩りが行なわれ、半蔵は、島送りにされていた重罪人の人斬り屋・三途の竿兵衛が島破りをしてどうやら江戸に潜んでいることを知る。竿兵衛の愛人・お美乃を捕らえた半蔵は、自らの男性的魅力で彼女を陥落させて、今回の事件の裏に大奥にまで広がる意外な悪事が秘められていることをさらに知る。

After accidentally causing the death of an old lady, Zatoichi tries to do right by buying the lady’s daughter’s freedom from a brothel - but this causes more problems than solves them.

A detective is charged with investigating a bank corruption scandal.

Zatoichi is mentored by the blind leader of a secret organization as he contends with both the Yakuza and a jealous husband.

Getting an opportunity to meet with another half-Caucasian swordsman, Kyoshiro finds himself involved in a series of dangerous encounters.

眠狂四郎は、徳川家慶主従の刃に追われる娘志津を助けたことから、将軍世継ぎをめぐる渦中にまき込まれた。志津の言葉から、手掛りの糸を家慶の乳母で侍女頭の松浦に求めた狂四郎は、真相を明かせぬまま彼女をあの世に送ってしまった。やがて、狂四郎は家慶の双生児の兄弟の存在と黒幕大目付佐野勘十郎の権謀を知った。

A ronin desperately seeks a way out of financial straits; he allies with the Tosa clan under the ruthless leader Takechi, who quickly takes advantage.

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.

『妖怪百物語』に次ぐ「妖怪」三部作の第二弾。1751年、伊豆半島に4000年の眠りからさめた西洋妖怪・ダイモンが現れた。生き血を求めて人々におそいかかるダイモン。その正体を見抜いた河童や油すましたちは日本妖怪軍団を組織、圧倒的な力を持つダイモンに健気に挑んでいく。

Film directed by Kenji Misumi

The disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with general anaesthetic, and the women in his life who are both so determined to win his love that they volunteer as subjects for his experiments

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.

“大魔神”シリーズ第２弾。戦国時代、名越一族と千草一族は、八雲の湖をはさんで暮らしていた。そして湖の中央にある神の島に祭られる武神像により、平和を守られていた。そんな中、千草家の跡取り息子十郎と名越家の娘早百合は結婚することとなっており、両家の長期にわたる幸福な関係は約束されているかにみえた。ところが彼らは思わぬ侵略にさらされることになる。隣国の領主御子柴弾正は、まず千草一族、続いて名越一族を倒し､その領地を手に入れる。さらに両家を守り続けてきた武神像を破壊し、湖に捨ててしまう｡そして邪魔になった十郎と早百合を処刑しようとする。絶体絶命と思ったその時、湖がまっぷたつに割れ、巨大な魔神が現れる……｡神ノ島関係のシーンは、京都撮影所内に大規模なセットを組んで撮影。湖面を二つに割って登場する大魔神が圧巻。

Film by director Kenji Misumi

A mysterious tattoo artist puts his masterpiece, a human-faced spider, on a kidnapped woman's back. She and her lover are then forced into a conspiracy-born nightmare, where they face the danger of becoming the very evil they seek to escape. With each new bloody incident, the spider's face seems to redden with ever-growing hunger.

北極海で大爆発が起き、氷の中に閉じこめられていたカメの大怪獣ガメラを目覚めさせてしまう。北海道に現われたガメラは、エネルギーを求めて地熱発電所を襲撃。自衛隊が応戦するが、ガメラはどんな攻撃も受け付けない。そこで自衛隊は、自力で起き上がれないカメの特性を利用した転倒作戦を考案。ガメラをひっくり返し、飢え死にさせるという狙いは成功したかに見えたが、転倒したガメラは驚くべき方法で起き上がった。

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 entangled in a conspiracy involving a corrupt chamberlain, a wily merchant, the survivors of a pirate gang, and a missing treasure trove.

The son of an executioner and the assassin he loved yet murdered learns of his origins, leaving his foster parents to avenge his mother's death.

Ushimatsu's father told him never to reveal his lower-caste heritage; years later, he now contemplates confiding in an activist fighting against such discrimination.

Satoko is a mistress by trade or fate: when her master, the silkscreen artist of the Kohoan Temple in Kyoto, dies, she is given to the temple's lascivious head priest Kikuchi. She is drawn to a melancholy young acolyte, Jinen, who has observed the profligacy of his cruel master and Satoko's utter dependence on the man. Jinen is both fascinated and disturbed by Satoko's interest in him; he is similarly caught between loathing of Kikuchi and of the dark circumstances of his birth and his own moral weakness. The story unfolds in a dreamlike manner—a flashback inspired by a now-infamous image on a silkscreen in the souvenir shop at the so-called Temple of the Wild Geese.

The sequel to Daibosatsu tôge (1960) and the second of the trilogy follows the adventures of Ryunosuke Tsukue after he is blinded.

Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overbearing mother and grandmother to give them an heiress for the family business, he stands by helplessly as his wife is thrown out of the house for producing a son. Driven to a life of dissipation - his mistresses also fail to produce daughters - in the end he is just too tired to care.

A gorgeous tragic love picture scroll depicting a beautiful woman who weeps over her strange fate and falters in her search for true love!

溝口吾一は父の親友が住職をつとめる驟閣寺に住み込むことになった。驟閣寺はこの世で最も美しいものと教え込まれた吾一だったが、やがて観光客が多数訪れるようになり、信仰の場ではなく単なる観光地に成り下がってしまうのを目の当たりにする。古谷大学に通うようになった吾一は戸苅という学生と知り合うが、戸苅は驟閣寺の美を批判し、住職の私生活を暴露した。

Japan, 1701. A group of samurai become rônin after their lord is forced to commit seppuku for assaulting a court official, who will become the target of a merciless revenge.

From the pen of Yoshikawa Eiji comes this exciting story. The Naruto Strait separates Tokushima from the islands of Awaji and Honshu. On Tokushima the mad lord dreams of conquest and forges a bloody revolt against the Tokugawa shogunate. A mysterious swordsman named Noriyuki Gennojo has crossed Naruto’s waters to uncover the Awa clan’s secrets. He puts his life on the line after finding a testament of Awa’s secrets, written in blood by a dying man. Joining Noriyuki are a female ninja who loves him, and the beautiful daughter of an enemy who’s sworn to kill him. Awa’s defenders willl stop at nothing to prevent the blood-soaked letter from reaching the shogun.

A Japanese drama featuring the one-eyed, one-armed swordsman

The Lord of Okazaki is killed by his brother-in-law. Although the Lord's widow bears a child, she is also killed. Then, a ghost cat begins stalking in the castle.

Genji, the illegitimate offspring of a Japanese potentate, goes by the philosophy of "love 'em and leave 'em" as a matter of course. Only when his heart is broken by Awaji does Genji realizes how much pain he himself has caused.

Clothes of Deception initiated Yoshimura’s most characteristic vein. This geisha story is often described as a loose remake of Mizoguchi’s pre-war masterpiece Sisters of Gion (1936), but this is inexact. Whereas in Mizoguchi’s study of two sisters, both women had been geisha, in Yoshimura’s film only Kimicho (Kyo Machiko) is, while her sister works in the Kyoto tourist office. Juxtaposing a traditional Kyoto profession with a modern one, Yoshimura shows how life in the old capital was changing in the wake of wider transformations in Japanese society.