Cast: Makoto Satô

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Yûzô Kayama · Tatsuya Mihashi · Akira Takarada · Koshiro Matsumoto

Plot A young lord attempts to combat the official corruption endemic to the Shogunate, only to be placed in an impossible conflict of duties. He refuses to bribe a Chancelor who...

Direction Tai Kato

Cast Junko Toda · Chieko Baisho · Yuki Kawamura · Sanae Nakahara

Direction Kenji Misumi

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Yoshiko Mita · Makoto Satô · Kô Nishimura

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Nobuko Otowa · Makoto Satô · Ryo Tamura

Plot Farmer Abare Goemon is confronted by brigand-like samurai. He raises an army of farmers to fight them and does so brilliantly. When Lord Asakura sees the success Goemon has achieved,...

Direction Teruo Ishii

Cast Meiko Kaji · Hoki Tokuda · Makoto Satô · Yoshi Kato

Plot Akemi and the man of her clan confront their opponents; Akemi delivers a sword thrust to kill the opponents' leader, and Aiko, his daughter, tries to interpose herself, suffering a...

Direction Seiji Maruyama

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Yûzô Kayama · Yôko Tsukasa · Toshio Kurosawa

Plot As Japan joins in a political pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is appointed supreme commander of the Japanese fleet. With Japan headed inexorably toward war,...

Direction Teruo Ishii

Cast Sonny Chiba · Eiji Gô · Yutaka Nakajima · Hiroyuki Sanada

Plot Three street toughs are hired to take down a Tokyo drug dealer in this hard-hitting Toei karate action film.

Direction Norifumi Suzuki

Cast Sonny Chiba · Yutaka Nakajima · Makoto Satô · Naoya Makoto

Direction Seiji Maruyama

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Tatsuya Nakadai · Yûzô Kayama · Chishu Ryu

Plot Japan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the Japanese fleet and army to take Port Arthur fails, and a Russian...

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Shogoro Ichikawa · Ryu Kuze · Yosuke Natsuki

Direction Shuei Matsubayashi · Hugo Grimaldi

Cast Makoto Satô · Misa Uehara · Keiju Kobayashi · Toshirô Mifune

Plot Lt. Koji Kitami is a navigator-bombardier in Japan's Naval Air Force. He participates in the Japanese raid on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in 1941 and is welcomed...

Direction Kihachi Okamoto

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Koji Tsuruta · Yôko Tsukasa · Seizaburô Kawazu

Plot Japanese police detective Saburo Fujioka is suspected of corruption, demoted, and sent to the city of Kojin. Kojin is the scene of fierce fighting between rival gangs. Fujioka is assigned...

Direction Ishirô Honda

Cast Akihiko Hirata · Kenji Sahara · Koreya Senda · Yumi Shirakawa

Plot A drug dealer named Misaki disappears leaving only his clothes. The next day the police go to question his girlfriend, singer Chikako Arai, and she informs them that she doesn't...

Direction Norifumi Suzuki

Cast Hiroyuki Sanada · Sonny Chiba · Etsuko Shihomi · Yuki Ninagawa

Plot In the middle of the 16th century, Hideyoshi, a power hungry warlord sets out to destroy the Momochi clan. He sends his war commander in search of the clan's hidden...

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Sonny Chiba · Vic Morrow · Philip Casnoff · Etsuko Shihomi

Plot In this Star Wars take-off, the peaceful planet of Jillucia has been nearly wiped out by the Gavanas, whose leader takes orders from his mother (played a comic actor in...

Direction Yasuki Chiba

Cast Machiko Kyô · Haruko Sugimura · Yôko Tsukasa · Reiko Dan

Plot Four sisters are all named after flowers. While the two youngest are married, the eldest two remain single, much to the annoyance of their long-suffering mother. The mother and her...

Direction Teruo Ishii

Cast Sonny Chiba · Eiji Gô · Yutaka Nakajima · Etsuko Shihomi

Direction Kihachi Okamoto

Cast Yûzô Kayama · Makoto Satô · Tatsuya Mihashi · Kumi Mizuno

Plot An automobile tester for Komatsu Motors has a fatal accident. His brother, a whale-hunting cannon manufacturing supervisor, investigates the suspicious circumstances of the death with the help of an old...

Direction Toshio Sugie

Cast Hiroshi Koizumi · Keiko Awaji · Chikage Ogi · Takashi Shimura

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Kyôko Enami · Mikio Narita · Makoto Satô · Nobuo Kaneko