Producer
A Choice between Loyalty or Duty of the Samurai! Can the heartlessness of society crush the honor of an individual? In the spring of the 18th year of Kanei, Hosokawa Tadatoshi, feudal lord of the Higo area, died. Although Tadatoshi forbade his vassals to follow him in death before he died, they still committed seppuku one after the other. The new feudal lord, Mitsunao, Tadatoshi's son, also gave the order forbidding seppuku. Abe Yaichiemon obeyed his former lord's last wish but is now being called a coward by his comrades and finally decided to follow Tadatoshi in death in order to save his family's honor. Mitsunao, upset by Yaichiemon actions, punished the Abe family unfairly. Objected to this, the Abe family shut themselves up in their manor as the lords troops moved in. This is the true story of what happened within the Hosokawa clan in early Edo era.
Producer
A noble samurai serving the Shogun as 'Kogi Kaishaku-nin' (Official Executioner) is the target of a plot by the evil Yagyu Clan to take away his position and replace him with a member of their own family. When his wife is murdered and evidence is produced that he was plotting against the Shogun the Code of Bushido calls for him and his son to commit sepuku. Instead he defies the Shogun's orders and takes up arms against his enemies, becoming an assassin for hire.
Producer
등 전체에 새겨진 문신에서 "사람을 베는 자 야차"로 불린 오사카 미나미의 전설의 남자, 슈우지는 여자 때문에 야쿠자에서 발을 씻고 와카사 만에 면한 작은 항구 도시에서 어부가 되어 처자와 산지 15년째다. 어느 겨울 날, 미나미로부터 게이코라는 여자가 흘러들어와 작은 선술집 "개똥벌레"를 연다. 게이코의 도시적 자극과 냄새의 야릇한 매력에 남자의 마음이 흔들린다. 얼마 후, 게이코를 찾아 야쿠자 야지마가 나타난다. 야지마가 동료 어부들을 상대로 각성제를 파는 것을 알고 각성제를 처분한 케이코를 야지마가 쫓자 슈우지가 지킨다. 게이코가 도와 달라며 도움을 청하자 슈지 속의 야차가 되살아나는데...
Screenplay
The man who lives in the past and the woman who abandoned a past. They were lovers 10 years ago, and had met again in Paris.
First Assistant Director
The Homeless is a picaresque tale in the truest sense of the word. Two inmates are simultaneously released from jail, but go their separate ways, only to cross paths again in the nearest brothel. There they make the acquaintance of a would-be prostitute with a childlike mind and serious problems with the yakuza. They help her escape from the mob-infested cathouse and decide to guide her on her quest for sunken contraband somewhere off the coast, whose location only she knows, but which the yakuza are very eager to learn about. It is a remake of the French film The Last Adventure (1967).
