In the second film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto battles a group of female ninja in the employ of the Yagyu clan and must assassinate a traitor who plans to sell his clan's secrets to the Shogunate.
The film portrays a satirical view of today's heartless money-oriented society.
[Period covered: 1595-1600] Third film in the famous shinobi no mono series. We last saw ninja Ishikawa Goemon (Raizo Ichikawa), as he was about to be boiled alive. But a good ninja is both hard to find, and even harder to kill. With the help of the enigmatic Hattori Hanzo, Goemon lives to skulk another day, and sets his sights on bringing down the warlord who tried to turn him into soup – Toyotomi Hideyoshi. And as always, in the background, the suble hand of Tokugawa Ieyasu is pulling strings as he plots to rule all of Japan!
A 1946 Japanese film directed by Keigo Kimura.
明治十二三年頃、横浜での物語。ある露路の長屋に栗崎菊栄という裁縫の師匠がやもめ暮らしをしていた。隣には月琴の流しをしているお絹という美しい娘が母と二人暮らし。お絹は稼業に似ずしおらしい素直な娘である。彼女は貿易商阿島家の駆者をしている江口信吉という将来弁護士を志す青年と愛し合う仲であった。阿島は信吉を見込んで跡取りに迎える…。
Kikyo, koshimoto
In this Japanese retelling of Cinderella, Okuro (Takayama) is the unfortunate stepdaughter of a family of tanuki: shape-shifting raccoon dogs. She hopes to see the tanuki prince (former Takarazuka star Miyagi) against her stepmother's wishes; the magical spirit of the willow tree, and a hapless kappa (water goblin) intercede in unexpected ways.
