A coward boy fencer becomes invisible and matchless through a magic pill.
The first film in the 2 part series about Ryuzen, a renegade martial-arts priest who, in addition to breaking all the commandments against sex and gambling, opens his own gambling den in direct defiance of the local yakuza boss. Exciting action and a twisty plot this movie breaks new barriers in Japanese cinema. Katsu Shintaro is superb in one of his better non-Zato Ichi roles as he fights off the advances of a love-lorn woman and risks his life to defeat the powerful gambling boss who has a stranglehold on the town.
A former soldier, reduced to working at a restaurant post-war, becomes a contract killer for the yakuza gangs he's in contact with.
Abare inu is a 1965 action-comedy film directed by Kazuo Mori. It is the fourth film in the series.
Wandering samurai Nemuri Kyoshiro (Raizô Ichikawa) finds a bulls-eye on his back after befriending the shogunate's tightfisted financial adviser, Asahina, who's earned the wrath of the shogun's self-indulgent daughter for cutting off her allowance. The enraged princess promptly hatches a scheme to have Asahina bumped off -- along with his protector, Kyoshiro. Shiho Fujimura also stars in this installment of the enormously popular film series.
사무라이 액션영화에서 특히 빛을 발했던 대스타 이치카와 라이조 주연의 ‘검 3부작’ 중 1편. 영화가 시작하면 한 몸종이 주인을 칼로 살해한 후 순순히 체포당해 죽음을 택한다. 그리고 20년의 시간이 흘러 한 사내가 등장해 전국을 떠돌며 여행을 다닌다. 과연 그의 정체는 무엇일까. (한국시네마테크협의회)
