Toshio Taniguchi

The third series of action series depicting the success of a woman torpedo who was caught in two groups of conflicts at a small port town in the Seto Inland Sea.

A comedy in which Furaibo and a detective work together against a bomber.

Furuta Oribe is ordered to become tea master under Toyotomi Hideyoshi after his teacher Sen no Rikyū, the former tea master, was ordered to commit suicide. Princess Goh, daughter of the lord but adopted by Hideyoshi, is outraged when Rikyū's severed head is thrown in the Nijo River. She sends Usu, Oribe's servant, to retrieve the head and deliver it to Rikyū's adopted daughter.

동네 야구단의 멤버이기는 하지만 긴장 때문에 좋은 성적을 거두지 못하던 마사키는 삼진아웃을 당해 팀을 지게 만든다. 경기 후 일터로 돌아온 마사키는 우연히 야쿠자와 싸움을 하게 되고, 결국 카즈오와 함께 총을 구하기 위해 오키나와로 향한다. 그곳에서 그들은 야쿠자인 우에하라와 타마키를 만나고, 총을 건네받는다. 마침내 총을 손에 넣은 마사키와 카즈오는 복수를 위해 도쿄로 돌아오는데...

Near the end of Japanese civil war, several disgraced ronin living in Edo's red light district attempt to regain their honor by defending a brothel from a hostile militia bent on wiping out local prostitutes.

일본 다도의 완성자 센리큐의 일대기를 그린 영화

Older, wiser but still a wandering loner, the blind, peace-loving masseur Ichi seeks a peaceful life in a rural village. When he's caught in the middle of a power struggle between two rival Yakuza clans, his reputation as a deadly defender of the innocent is put to the ultimate test in a series of sword-slashing showdowns.

Based on a science-fiction novel by Sakyo Komatsu. Tokyo is suddenly covered by a dome shaped electromagnetic cloud for an unknown reason and is totally blocked and isolated from other parts of the world. The temperature inside the cloud is slowly increasing. The Soviet Pacific fleet is getting closer. The U.S. is forcing Japan to form a new government. Scientists and research workers outside Tokyo have to race against time to find out how to get through the cloud in order to rescue the 12,000,000+ lives in Tokyo and the fate of the country.

To satisfy her lover's fetish for tattooed women, Akane agrees to have her body covered in eloborate tattoos by Kyogoro, an old craftsman. Kyogoro has developed a special technique, by which his assistant, Harutsune, keeps Katsuko's mind off the pain while Kyogoro does his work. After the work is done, Harutsune makes the shocking discovery of how Kyogoro mastered his technique.

A re-make of the classic story made for television in 1982.

When a woman and her bridegroom are found dead in a double suicide the day after their wedding, it is up to the detective (Akira Nakao) to figure out what could possibly have motivated them. Carefully and systematically, he pieces together the inner lives of the two.

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).

아들을 동반한 검객 6

아들을 동반한 검객 5

Against the backdrop of the Edo treasury devaluing currency and driving many into poverty, Hanzo Itami enforces the law without regard to status. He shows inadequate respect to the treasurer, who wants him dead.

When 150 guns are stolen from Iwakuni base and two police officers are shot dead, a detective criminal tries to find out the truth.

아들을 동반한 검객 4

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.

아들을 동반한 검객 3

떠돌이 무사 칸베이는 길 가던 여자들을 겁탈하려다 위기에 처한 동료들을 구하기 위해 살인을 하게 된다. 그는 어린 아들을 유모차에 태우고 방랑하는 자객 오가미 잇토와 우연히 만나 결투를 신청하지만 오가미로부터 진정한 무사를 살려두고 싶다는 말을 듣는다. 오가미는 어느날, 여관에서 유곽에 팔려가던 중 겁탈하려는 중개인을 죽이고 자신의 방으로 도망온 소녀 오마츠를 구해주기 위해 망팔자들에게 끝까지 저항한다. 망팔자의 우두머리로 가케가와번의 필두 가로였던 미우라 다케와키의 딸 토리조는 오가미가 범상치 않은 무사임을 직감하고, 번을 팔아 권력을 손에 넣은 사와타리 겐바에게 청부살인을 의뢰한다. 한편 로쥬 이타쿠라 나이젠노쇼를 꼬드겨 권력을 손에 쥔 사와타리는 다시 로쥬를 살해하려 오가미에서 살인을 청부하나 거절당하자 오가미를 죽이기 위해 대규모의 군사를 동원한다. 그러나 오가미는 혼자서 군사 수백명의 활과 총을 물리친다.

Blind masseur and master swordsman Zatoichi finds a robbed and fatally wounded pregnant woman, whose baby he delivers before she dies. He takes the baby in search of its father and finds the child's aunt, who is about to be forced into prostitution for want of a payment the dead mother was bringing. Zatoichi determines to save the woman from her cruel fate.

오가미 이토는 한때 누구도 당해내지 못하는 최고의 검술 실력을 자랑했지만, 지금은 반역자의 누명을 쓰고 야기유 가문에게 쫓기고 있는 신세다. 그것도 어린 아들을 동반한 채. 두 당 500냥을 받으며 비정한 자객의 삶을 살아가는 그에게 어느날, 아와 지방으로부터 암살 의뢰가 들어온다. 옷감에 쪽빛을 내는 비법으로 고소득을 올리고 있는 아와 지방. 막부는 이 아와 지방의 염료 수익에 눈독을 들여 그들의 이익을 착취하려고 한다. 그리하여 막부는 쪽의 재배 비결을 알고 있는 아와의 명주 마쿠야를 납치할 요량으로 무사 삼인방 벤, 덴, 라이를 보낸다. 형제로 구성된 이 삼인방은 가공할만한 검술 실력을 자랑하고 있어 천하에 두려울 것이 없는 야기유 일가조차도 맞서기를 주저할 정도로 흉폭하고 잔혹하기 짝이 없는 이들이다. 그리고 아와 지방으로부터 의뢰를 받은 비운의 검객, 이토가 바로 이 삼형제의 마쿠야를 없애야 하는 것이다. 그러나 이토 역시 야기유의 추적을 받고 있기 때문에 삼형제를 대적하기 앞서 야기유의 닌자를 따돌려야하는 위기에 놓인다.

A detective is charged with investigating a bank corruption scandal.

Shocking scenes are revealed in the Nagasaki Women's prison.

친구를 찾아 일본에 온 중국 무림의 고수 왕강은 일본에서 우연히 만나게 된 중국인 향영 부부와 친구가 됩니다. 일행이 길을 가던 중 지방에서 중앙으로 보내는 진상품의 행렬을 만나게 되는데 향영의 아들 소영때문에 행렬이 무너지는 사고가 생깁니다. 그 일이 알려지면 자신들의 체면이 손상될 것을 우려한 호위 무사들은 주변에 있던 목격자들을 모조리 살해하고는 왕강에게 누명을 뒤집어 씌웁니다. 한편, 그 주변을 지나가던 맹인 안마사 자토이치는 황영의 시체를 붙잡고 울고 있는 소영을 발견합니다.

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

Wicked woman Ogin is a concubine of a powerful feudal lord Tayu. At first Ogin gains power by poisoning lawful wife of Tayu. To gain more power Ogin let her lover Isogai Iori, kill whoever interrupts her. Film it is based on Jun'ichirō Tanizaki's novel "Kyofu Jidai".

The Shinobi-no-Mono series was so successful that Daiei Studios dipped into the well one more time, making the best 60′s B&W ninja movie ever seen in the otherwise color-dominated year of 1970. Issei Mori directs Hiroki Matsukata as the reluctant leader of a small band of spies charged with kidnapping a noblewoman from a heavily ninja-proofed castle. The finality of the air slowly began to fill like smoke, and in all that had become dark the loyalty of the Ninja who dared to go shone like light as they entered a world shrouded in mystery. Things do not go as planned in what is possibly the darkest and most fatalistic of the already noir-ish 60′s fare. Both the decade and it’s distinctive style of shinobi cinema went out on a high note with Mission Iron Castle.

With a price on his head, Ichi seeks tranquillity in a favorite village. Since his last visit, it has fallen prey to Boss Masagoro, the son of a merchant rumored to have stolen gold from the shogunate. The boss has hired Yojimbo as his hard-drinking enforcer, but Yojimbo is both a spy for the shogunate, trying to find the gold, and in love with the merchant's unwilling mistress, Umeno. Ichi hires on as the merchant's masseur and buys Umeno's freedom with his employer's own money. This embarrasses Yojimbo who withdraws from a pact with Ichi to stir up trouble between father and son and their gangs. As the two sides fight, Ichi finds the gold and sets up a final set of confrontations.

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

Inspector General Kanjuro Sano conspires with the future shogun twin brother. They replace Ieyoshi Tokugawa with his twin, but it becomes a problem when suspicion arises and Nemuri Kyoshiro gets involved.

Lord Oda Nobunaga gains control of nearly all of Japan and tries to enlist the aid of Magoichi and his 3.000 gunners.

Set up to be the patsy by a rival gang, Furuta Makoto attacks the yakuza boss he thinks is responsible for his father’s murder. He then learns it was all a plot to take over his father’s turf and he seeks vengeance against the puppet master behind the entire conspiracy. His quest for justice leads him to prison where he must fend off the attack of a master assassin before he can make his escape and go after the true killer!

Zatoichi is forced to kill a young man who owes a debt to a yakuza boss. Moments later, his sister Osode arrives with the money she earned (prostituting herself) to pay his debts. The bosses true motives are revealed and he attempts to steal Osode even though the debt is paid. Zatoichi realizes his grievous error and protects the girl from the gang. Osode and Zatoichi are caught in a dilemma as she must rely on her brother's killer for protection and Zatoichi wrestles with the injustice he has caused.

Ichi is staying at an inn when a woman dies. Her dying wish is that Ichi take her son to his father, an artist living in a nearby town. After arriving in the town, Ichi finds out that the father has been forced by a local boss to create illegal pornography to pay off his gambling debts. Ichi makes it his mission to save tha man and reunite the family, even though it brings him into conflict with a samurai he sort of befriended on his way to the town.

Raizô Ichikawa reprises his role as the restaurant-cook-turned-contract-killer in this sequel to Kazuo Mori's stylish 1967 thriller A Certain Killer.

In the 19th century Edo period, sisters Oshizu and Otaka have sacrificed their personal happiness to work and care for their ailing father. Otaka falls in love, but can’t accept a marriage proposal since her older sister needs to marry first. When Oshizu learns of this decision, she takes matters in her own hands.

A former soldier, reduced to working at a restaurant post-war, becomes a contract killer for the yakuza gangs he's in contact with.

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.

In a mountainous region of Japan, Lord Arakawa kidnaps the men of nearby villages to use as slave labor, producing gunpowder from his sulfur pits. A band of young boys decide to rescue their enslaved fathers on their own.

Zatoichi's trek through 88 temples to atone for his violent past is interrupted as he stumbles into a village terrorized by a violent yakuza boss.

Film by director Kenji Misumi

Blind swordsman Zatoichi, jailed briefly, is implored by another prisoner to aid him in proving his innocence of a crime for which he is sentenced to death. Zatoichi is reluctant to get involved, because he knows how often such involvement has led to trouble in the past. But events conspire to thrust him repeatedly into involvement, and gradually he comes to believe in the man's innocence and determines to free him.

[Period covered: 1637-1651] This is one of the most complicated plots of any of the Shinobi no Mono films! This film tells the story of Saizo’s son, Kirigakure Saisuke, who after seeing his father die at the Battle Of Shimabara, grows up to be an expert ninja. Before he dies, “Mist” Saizo tells his children Saisuke, and Yuri that they are not really brother and sister. She, in fact, is the daughter of the late lord Sanada Yukimura, and must be saved from the shogun’s forces. In the chess match of spy versus spy, can Saisuke defeat the shogun’s chief strategist, Matsudaira Izunokami at his own game? Showing many exciting ninja tactics, it is not to be missed.

Abare inu is a 1965 action-comedy film directed by Kazuo Mori. It is the fourth film in the series.

A decapitation at the hands of the shogun's monstrous misbegotten son kicks off the action and draws nomadic Nemuri Kyoshiro (Raizô Ichikawa) into more sword-fighting adventures when he's blamed for the beheading. Meanwhile, the head-chopper's mother is busy knocking off the shogun's lawful heirs to secure the shogunate for her son.