Yoichi Funaki

山男の歌

Mitsuo Murayama

Jun Fujimaki, Mako Sanjō

座頭市物語

Kenji Misumi

Shintarō Katsu, Masayo Banri

The adventures of a blind, gambling masseur and master swordsman. Zatoichi targets a yakuza-controlled village, because war with a neighbouring town's smaller gang is brewing.

The Wife of Seishu Hanaoka

Yasuzō Masumura

Raizō Ichikawa, Ayako Wakao

The disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with general anaesthetic, and the women in his life who are both so determined to win his love that they volunteer as subjects for his experiments

Ken

Kenji Misumi

Raizō Ichikawa, Yukiko Fuji

Kokubu Jiro is the captain of his university's Kendo team. Often standoffish, mild, stoic and minimalist, Kokubu is a mystery to those who know him. Kagawa wants to understand Kokubu, but being arrogant and flashy, has a hard time connecting with Kokubu.

夜の河

Kōzaburō Yoshimura

Ken Uehara, Fujiko Yamamoto

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

座頭市海を渡る

Kazuo Ikehiro

Shintarō Katsu, Michiyo Ookusu

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.

炎上

Kon Ichikawa

Raizō Ichikawa, Tatsuya Nakadai

Learning of his family's collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the Golden Pavilion, must endure acute psychological distress.

Ninja, a Band of Assassins

Satsuo Yamamoto

Raizō Ichikawa, Yūnosuke Itō

Warlord Oda Nobunaga seeks to unite a fractured Japan. A young man trained in the arts of ninjitsu is manipulated by a ninja master into attempting to assassinate the warlord before he completes his task.

稲妻街道

Kazuo Mori

Raizō Ichikawa, Ryūji Shinagawa

小雨の夜に散った恋

Kazuo Mori

Kazuo Hasegawa, Raizō Ichikawa

The exciting story of Jirocho and his yakuza gang that controlled the area of the Tokaido during the latter days of the samurai era. Awesome fighting from Katsu Shintaro as One-Eyed Ishimatsu highlights this great tale taken from Japanese history!

次郎長富士

Kazuo Mori

Kazuo Hasegawa, Raizō Ichikawa

Legendary yakuza Shimizu Jirocho and his 28 henchmen travel the unruly path from a 'Fire Festival' in Akiba to a decisive battle by the Fujigawa.

ジャン・有馬の襲撃

Daisuke Itō

Minosuke Bando, Raizō Ichikawa

新・忍びの者

Kazuo Mori

Raizō Ichikawa, Ayako Wakao

[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!

新書・忍びの者

Kazuo Ikehiro

Raizō Ichikawa, Michiyo Ookusu

[Period Covered: 1570-1573] Towards the end of the Tenmon Era, Shogun Ashikaga`s powers were weakening by the day and many were there who planned to overthrow him. It was the beginning of the Sengoku (Warring States) period. Three men attack a gunpowder maker in a farmhouse, the first chopping off his arm with his sickle-&-chain weapon, the second blinding him with sword, the third giving the killing blow. His son Kojiro Kosume escapes the attackers as everything he has known up to then explodes into conflagration. He grows up & enters the start of the Tokugawa Era, intent on avenging his father.

かげろう笠

Kenji Misumi

Kazuo Hasegawa, Kyōko Kagawa

Film directed by Kenji Misumi.

眠狂四郎炎情剣

Kenji Misumi

Raizō Ichikawa, Tamao Nakamura

Fifth film in the series. When Kyoshiro, in a moment of weakness, saves the life of a woman being attacked on the road, he quickly finds himself entangled in a conspiracy involving a corrupt chamberlain, a wily merchant, the survivors of a pirate gang, and a missing treasure trove.