Shintarō Katsu

二十九人の喧嘩状

Kimiyoshi Yasuda

Raizō Ichikawa, Shintarō Katsu

みだれ髪

Teinosuke Kinugasa

Michiko Ai, Noriko Hodaka

Late romance by acclaimed filmmaker Kinugasa Teinosuke.

悪名 縄張荒らし

Yasuzō Masumura

Shintarō Katsu, Hiroko Isayama

About small-time gangster Asakichi's chaotic life in the 1930s. His gambling addiction means that he must not continue working in the family business. Instead he supports himself by arranging cockfights. He becomes ex-geisha Okinu's patron and lover, and falls directly into disfavor with the yakuza.

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 Notorious Man's Return

Kazuo Mori

Shintarō Katsu, Jirō Tamiya

1962 film

Fight, Zatoichi, Fight

Kenji Misumi

Shintarō Katsu, Nobuo Kaneko

Blind swordsman/masseuse Zatoichi befriends a young woman returning home with her baby. When gangsters mistake her for Zatoichi and kill her, Zatoichi determines to escort the baby to its father. He gains the reluctant help of a young pick pocket and together they travel to find the baby's father. But they do not reckon on the father's reaction to their arrival, nor on their own growing feelings for the child.

Hoodlum Soldier

Yasuzō Masumura

Shintarō Katsu, Takahiro Tamura

A young intellectual conscientious objector is forced to serve with the Japanese army in Manchuria. He joins with a dim-witted former gangster in an effort to desert by stealing a train.

The Funeral Racket

Kenji Misumi

Shintarō Katsu, Yūnosuke Itō

The film portrays a satirical view of today's heartless money-oriented society.

Zatoichi's Cane Sword

Kimiyoshi Yasuda

Shintarō Katsu, Shiho Fujimura

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.

Zatoichi Challenged

Kenji Misumi

Shintarō Katsu, Jūshirō Konoe

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.

Tenchu!

Hideo Gosha

Shintarō Katsu, Tatsuya Nakadai

A ronin desperately seeks a way out of financial straits; he allies with the Tosa clan under the ruthless leader Takechi, who quickly takes advantage.

An Actor's Revenge

Kon Ichikawa

Kazuo Hasegawa, Fujiko Yamamoto

While performing in a touring kabuki troupe, leading female impersonator Yukinojo comes across the three men who drove his parents to suicide twenty years earlier, and plans his revenge, firstly by seducing the daughter of one of them, secondly by ruining them.

Devil's Temple

Kenji Misumi

Shintarō Katsu, Hideko Takamine

An abandoned temple in the mountains outside of the old capital city of Kyoto is the scene of a fated meeting between a traveling priest, two women, and a vicious killer. Bloody violence erupts whenever strangers approach the temple. Can the traveling priest bring his belief in the Buddha and rid the three temple residents of the devils that hold their souls?

忠臣蔵

Kunio Watanabe

Kazuo Hasegawa, Yataro Kurokawa

Japan, 1701. A group of samurai become rônin after their lord is forced to commit seppuku for assaulting a court official, who will become the target of a merciless revenge.

Zatoichi's Revenge

Akira Inoue

Shintarō Katsu, Norihei Miki

Itinerant masseur and master swordsman, the blind Zatoichi, is near the village of his teacher, Hikonoichi, so he decides to visit. He learns of Hikonoichi's recent robbery and murder and the imprisonment of his virginal daughter, Osayo, in a brothel. Through friendship with Denroku, a local dice thrower and devoted father, Ichi uncovers an unholy alliance between the governor and the area strongman: among their scams is falsifying tax records to put farmers in debt, then forcing their daughters into prostitution at the boss's brothel. With help from Denroku's daughter, Otsuru, Ichi comforts Osayo until he can provoke showdowns with the villains and their henchmen.

大阪物語

Kōzaburō Yoshimura

Raizō Ichikawa, Shintarō Katsu

A poor peasant, after years of scraping, becomes a rich and powerful Osaka merchant. Mizoguchi Kenji's final project; he died before completing it and directing duties turned over to Yoshimura Kozaburo.