Yôko Wakasugi

陽気な殿様

Kazuo Mori

Raizō Ichikawa, Mikiko Tsubouchi

Maiko to ansatsusha

Kenji Misumi

Miwa Takada, Masahiko Tsugawa

噂の女

Kenji Mizoguchi

Kinuyo Tanaka, Tomoemon Otani

Yukiko's fiance learns her mother runs a geisha house and ends their engagement. She despises what her mother does until one of her clients shows interest and starts to woo her.

かげろう侍

Kazuo Ikehiro

Raizō Ichikawa, Reiko Fujiwara

続・座頭市物語

Kazuo Mori

Shintarō Katsu, Yoshie Mizutani

Returning to the village where a year before he had killed Hirate, a much-admired opponent, Zatoichi encounters another swordsman and former rival in love.

喧嘩鴛鴦

Katsuhiko Tasaka

Raizō Ichikawa, Toshio Chiba

座頭市兇状旅

Tokuzō Tanaka

Shintarō Katsu, Miwa Takada

After arriving in the town of Shimonita, Ichi finds that a price has been put on his head by a local yakuza boss. He's drawn into a trap, but after hearing of the slaying of a former love, Ichi furiously fights his way through the entire clan to face the killer, a hired ronin.

夜の河

Kōzaburō Yoshimura

Ken Uehara, Fujiko Yamamoto

In Kyoto a young kimono maker with traditional ideas gets involved with a married professor.

The Blind Menace

Kazuo Mori

Shintarō Katsu, Tamao Nakamura

This is the story of a blind masseur who tricks people, steals, and kills; he is the anti-Zatoichi

悪名

Tokuzō Tanaka

Shintarō Katsu, Jirō Tamiya

Asakichi beats a ganster, Sada, in a physical fight, leading to recognition by Sada's clan boss. When Kotoito, the geisha Asakichi is in love with, is kidnapped by a rival clan and sold to a a house of pleasure, Asakichi and Sada set out to rescue her.

眠狂四郎円月斬り

Kimiyoshi Yasuda

Raizō Ichikawa, Kyooko Azuma

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.

薔薇合戦

Mikio Naruse

Kuniko Miyake, Setsuko Wakayama

A Japanese melodrama about three sisters, rival fashion companies, and attempted murder by overheated bathroom.

処女が見た

Kenji Misumi

Ayako Wakao, Michiyo Ookusu

A father decides to put his delinquent daughter into a temple in Kyoto known for its austere novitiate. Initially resistant to all forms of discipline, she ends up falling in love with the nun who is in charge of her.

眠狂四郎多情剣

Akira Inoue

Raizō Ichikawa, Yoshie Mizutani

The masked daughter of the Shogun wants to kill a samurai who has seen her scarred face. She sends waves of ninja warriors to kill the samurai and plots diabolical schemes / ambushes without much success.

抜打ち鴉

Bin Kato

Tomisaburō Wakayama, Shigeru Amachi

Shinjiro is a rambler, a single sword carrying lone wolf with only his fighting skills to protect him. He doesn’t know where his road leads, only that he must find his lost sister, and the ronin who stole her away. The ronin that Shinjiro has sworn to kill. On the road he’ll find his sister and test his blade against his bitter enemy. He also encounters a lost boy searching for his father, a boy he will swear to protect, and find his own lost love, a daughter of the yakuza who draws him into a frenzied and bloody battle between rival yakuza gangs for the control of a frightened town.

赤い手裏剣

Tokuzō Tanaka

Raizō Ichikawa, Chitose Kobayashi

Ronin samurai Ibuki-san enters a town and sells his skills to the warring families. He falls in love with the beautiful horse stable owner but like all heroes, cannot stay.