Koichi Sonoi

Takahagi Sutegoro is highly skilled at casing locations for thieves so that he can sell detailed floor plans to them. He suffers an injury to his leg while trying to help a parent and a child being threatened by samurai. Heizo jumps in and chases the samurai away. Feeling indebted to Heizo, Sutegoro decides to become his spy. Now, together they will try to stop scheming Myogi Danemon’s gang of merciless thieves...

Heizo "The Demon" deals with an arson thief gang known as "Bungoro" the fire thief who leaves a calling card as evidence. As a street notice, showing the thief of Ohno shop, but it is not Bungoro, it's the quick work of a solo member. Heizo Hasegawa with his hands full may have caught a break, it may be a falling out among the thieves.

Edo town thief called "Acrobatics boy" has been rampant in town, just that time, spy, Goro of Otaki will see a woman who had been an inside contact of the Yataro by chance. Also, Heizo is worried about the child of Inoue Tatsuizumi, who decided to ask for help for Gen'an.

Heizo "The Demon" investigates the shop of Toshimaya the swordsmith, where 280 ryo was stolen and twelve people murdered. This particular group of theives are most dangerous because of the willingness to kill for money, but what about this mysterious unibrow, who is he? What is he up to?

An old thief, Kuhei Sagiwara, used to visit his hometown at the foot of the Kurikara Pass in Kaga Province. Hiding from the rain, he overheard a secret conversation between three men, just like him, hiding from the rain. These three conspired to kill Heizo Hasegawa, the head of the arson and robbery police squad, and the head of these three is the outrageous villain, thief and murderer Jingoro Amikiri...

Heizo's cousin Senemon Misawa and his son Katsuzo visited Heizo's home. Heizo learns that Senemon has fallen in love with Katsutoshi, a woman who works at the Yamabukiya Tea House, and has asked her to marry him. Heizo decided to visit Yamabukiya, saying "I will try to find out if this woman is a bodhisattva or a demon." After meeting Katsutoshi Heizo, felt embarrassed and ordered Gorozo to inquire about her just in case. Gorozo, in turn, sends secret detective Rihachi to Yamabukiya with the task of keeping an eye on Katsutoshi...

Master swordsman Akiyama Kohei’s simple life in retirement is jarred into violent sword action when he meets an elderly fencing instructor who may be the target of a group of thieves planning a major armed robbery. At the same time dojo master Daijiro saves the life of man who, although skilled in archery has an aversion to killing and a woman artist comes into town where she is in danger of being raped by one of the thieves. From the pen of noted author Ikenami Shotaro, creator of such classics as Bandit Ve. Samurai, Hunter In The Dark, The Last Samurai, and Hissatsu-The Professional Killers! Brilliant storytelling that leads to superb swordsmanship!

The samurai Akiyama Daijiro is asked to help a young boy who tries to bring the man who murdered his father to justice. In the course of their quest they uncover a plot by one of the clan officials that could change the course of history.

Urushibara Kazuki heads to Kyoto to explore the secret of his wife, Saeko, who is hospitalized for terminal cancer.

Set in the late 1950s, when geisha culture was threatened by moral crusades, it tells the story of Omacha (Miyamoto Maki), a young girl who sees the geisha life as a way to lift her poverty-stricken family from their hand-to-mouth existence. Through her eyes, we see the protocols and complex financial relationships which dictate the running of the geisha house. Fukasaku's film is a work of great delicacy with moments of hypnotic beauty, and his tender direction, often touched with a sense of wonder, fills the screen with lovingly constructed scenes. At its heart is the poignant situation of the women who must sacrifice their normal relationships to live an ambiguous life in which they are a key part of society while being kept, for the most part, on its periphery, like perpetual mistresses.

Wife in former life plagues husband as ghost in the present

江戸の町で、鳥かご作りの内職をしながらひっそりと暮らす浪人の山村只次郎。ある晩、彼は、男に追い回されていた若い女性かもめを助けようとして、思いも寄らぬ事件に巻き込まれ、奉行所に引っ立てられるが、実はこれは、かつて上方で名うての刺客だった只次郎の腕を見込んで、与力の白鳥右京が仕組んだ狂言だった。かくして只次郎は、奉行所でも裁けない悪人を闇の世界で成敗する、必殺始末人として働くことになる。

A gang of evil ninjas has stolen the sacred sword of the Lady Mayu and are demanding that her family exchange her for the family treasure. The world's greatest swordsman, Shuranosuke Sakaki, is called in to get the sword back.

元老中・水野忠邦と組んだ大奥・姉小路一派は、お家乗っ取りのため、生後すぐ捨てられたという、徳川家定の双子の兄弟を捜していた。一方、それを知った家定の母は、大奥掃除人の四郎に問題の子の発見と始末を命じる。そんな折、老浮世絵師・葛飾北斎が謎の死を遂げ、犯人を捜す主水は、捜査の中で北斎が最後に描いた似顔絵とそっくりな少女・捨蔵を発見する。実は、彼女こそが大奥の二派が血眼で捜す将軍家の落とし種だった。

A criminal syndicate wants detective Onihei dead, but the resolute hero proves to be hard to kill.

A woman calling herself Princess Oryu enters the woman's prison. She is Kasumi, the daughter of the famous magistrate, Ooka Echizen, who slowly after hearing each of the prisoner's stories begins to realize the mystery that lies behind what it could be a big conspiracy.

Weaving two storylines together: the first is the story of 18th-century shogunate intrigue and loyalty, and the second is a ghost story about a beautiful woman who falls victim to passion and evil.

Basically the plot revolves around the title characters having to stop some sort of alliance from carrying out their dastardly deeds. The vixens employ some of the most bizarre ninjitsu sex magic ever commited to the screen to aid them in their quest. The production feels like some edited episodes of a TV series (I don't know if that's actually the case here), so think along the lines of Charlie's Angels meets Saiyûki (aka. Monkey) but made by perverts and you'll start to get the picture of what to expect. It also has a great soundtrack; kind of early 80's synth-pop soap opera score combined with the sort of thing you'd find in a Japanese RPG on the Super Nintendo. Filled with some great fight scenes, lots of nudity, bizarre ninja sex magic (that simply has to be seen... especially the magical-ninja-egg laying vixen), and some over-the-top violence certainly make this offbeat oddity worthy of a whole-hearted recommendation

the third episode in the TV original of Female Ninjas Magic Chronicles.

金を満載した御用船が、佐渡を出航した矢先に何者かに襲われる。事件の噂は江戸中に広まり、金相場の値上がりでひともうけを考える庶民が金座へ押し寄せる騒ぎに発展。一方、主水ら仕事人のもとに、金座を預かる後藤家の女当主・千勢が現われ、死んだ船員たちの仇討ちを依頼する。敵の正体も数も判らない依頼に主水らは躊躇するが、仕事人のひとり、おむらだけは仕事を引き受ける。しかし地獄組と名乗る謎の集団に襲われる。

The female ninjas need to protect their particular master's unborn infant from enemies. They use all types of intimate tricks to obtain the work done.

刃傷騒ぎで殺された前任者の代わりに、派手な装束の美青年、奥田右京亮が南町奉行として赴任する。彼は若いながらも老中酒井に引き立てられた野心家だった。一方、同奉行所の同心にして仕事人の主水は、江戸市中を暴れ回る旗本愚連隊の事件を担当していた。長屋で愚連隊に殺された浪人について探りを入れる主水は、子連れの仕事人・文七やなじみの店のおかみ・おふくらの情報から、事件の裏に右京亮が潜んでいることに気付く。

主水の同僚であり、隣人でもあった同心・清原が殺された。清原は両替商の枡屋をゆすって金を脅し取ろうとしていたことから、枡屋の代理人・真砂屋に刺されたのだ。主水が捜査を始めた一方、枡屋は主水に刺客を放つが、主水は辛うじて切り抜ける。だがそんな時、主水が手を出した娘が自殺、主水は窮地に立たされる。実はその自殺もまた枡屋の謀略だった。憤る主水は、久しぶりに再会したかんざし刺しの秀ら仲間たちと反撃に転じる。

幕末。14代将軍・家茂が逝去し、跡継ぎ慶喜の住む京都に将軍家の密書が運ばれることになる。だが、主水ら品川宿の同心が護衛する中、何者かに密書が奪われてしまった。責任を問われた主水と上司の筆頭同心・田中は、密書奪還のため京都へ。密書には初代将軍家康公が築いた黒谷屋敷に隠されている秘密が記されていたという。屋敷に向かった主水たちだが、そこは侵入者を阻む罠がいたるところに仕掛けられたからくり屋敷だった。

江戸の方々で、口に六文銭をくわえさせられた遺体が発見される。南町奉行所では役立たず扱いされる同心だが、実は仕事人の中村主水は、公務として捜査を始める。一方、主水ら仕事人の元締めである三味線弾きのおりくは、見つかった遺体が仕事人ばかりだと気づき、その裏に大掛かりな陰謀があることを知る。主水らはやがて黒幕が江戸中の“仕事”を独占しようとたくらむ大物仕事人・庄兵衛の一味であることを突き止める。

Fictionalized account of 20-year-old Noriko Tsuji, a real-life victim of a severe birth defect which afflicted 8,000 Japanese, children whose mothers took the sedative thalidomide during pregnancy. Tsuji has stunted flipper-like arms amputated at the behest of a father who deserted her soon after her birth. Nonetheless, the resourceful Noriko uses her feet to accomplish most of the tasks others would do with their hands.