Yūji Hamada

二十九人の喧嘩状

Kimiyoshi Yasuda

Raizō Ichikawa, Shintarō Katsu

幽霊小判

Akira Inoue

Raizō Ichikawa, Matasaburô Niwa

Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance

Kenji Misumi

Tomisaburō Wakayama, Akihiro Tomikawa

In this first film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, adapted from the manga by Kazuo Koike, we are told the story of the Lone Wolf and Cub's origin. Ogami Itto, the official Shogunate executioner, has been framed for disloyalty to the Shogunate by the Yagyu clan, against whom he now is waging a one-man war, along with his infant son, Daigoro.

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 Third Shadow Warrior

Umetsugu Inoue

Raizō Ichikawa, Hizuru Takachiho

In the mountain regions of Hida, the dreams of a peasant named Kyonosuke, who longed to be a samurai, come true when he becomes one of three doubles, of shadows, of Lord Yasutaka. After months of intense and cruel training, he faces his destiny when the Lord and the other two shadows are killed in battle and he must take on the role of Lord Yasutaka....

Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival

Kenji Misumi

Shintarō Katsu, Tatsuya Nakadai

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

女左膳　濡れ燕片手斬り

Kimiyoshi Yasuda

Michiyo Ookusu, Kōjirō Hongō

As a child, Okin the one-armed one-eyed swordswoman was disfigured by Lord Daizen-dayu, who was after her family's most treasured possession, the famed Drenched Swallow sword. As an adult, she has become a skilled swordswoman and lives a carefree life with her adopted family. One day, Okin saves a girl from a group of yakuza, and in doing so, gets involved in a grand conspiracy involving religious leaders, government officials, the yakuza and Lord Daizen-dayu, the man who killed her father and mutilated her body...

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.

続花頭巾

Katsuhiko Tasaka

Raizō Ichikawa, Shintarō Katsu

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.

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.

Zatoichi Meets the One-Armed Swordsman

Kimiyoshi Yasuda, Hsu Tseng-Hung

Shintarō Katsu, Jimmy Wang Yu

Zatoichi is a blind massage therapist and swordsman who finds out that something troubling is taking place on the outskirts of town. After discovering who the guilty parties are -- an accomplished Chinese martial artist named Wang Kang and his youthful attendant -- Zatoichi finds them and discovers that the pair's mixed up with a dangerous bunch of terrorist samurai who murdered the boy's parents. Now, Zatoichi must step in to save the day.

続・忍びの者

Satsuo Yamamoto

Raizō Ichikawa, Shiho Fujimura

[Period covered: 1582-1594]. As the film opens, the warlod Nobunaga Oda rides to Iga Ayanokuni shrine. He is asked if he thinks he has destroyed all the ninja who opposed him and answers that he suspects that there may be more. A servant brings water and tests it first. The paige dies and we hear gunshots as two ninja flee the scene. His suspicions confirmed, Nobunaga oversees the execution of captured ninja and decides that, in the future, he needs a much crueler method of execution. The daimyo Hideyoshi comes to visit.

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

Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo

Kihachi Okamoto

Shintarō Katsu, Toshirō Mifune

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.

Sword Devil

Kenji Misumi

Raizō Ichikawa, Michiko Sugata

Hanpei is a gentle young samurai that loves flowers. One day, he witnesses an old man's quick draw of the sword. He is so impressed that he becomes the old man's pupil. Soon, Hanpei's skill of sword comes to attention of his lord. The lord orders him to assassinate a man...