Cast: Etsuko Shihomi

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Sonny Chiba · Hiroki Matsukata · Teruhiko Saigô

Plot Following the death of the second Tokugawa shogun, it is revealed that he was poisoned by retainers of his son Iemitsu in hopes of gaining him the shogunate despite the...

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Hiroko Yakushimaru · Hiroyuki Sanada · Sonny Chiba · Etsuko Shihomi

Plot The story follows Shizu-hime (Hiroko Yakushimaru), her family slain and on the run from her enemies. As she escapes she is found by the vagabond Shinbei (Hiroyuki Sanada), before being...

Direction Shigehiro Ozawa

Cast Sonny Chiba · Reiko Ike · Kôji Wada · Tatsuo Endô

Plot In the third of the 'Streetfighter' adventures, action star Sonny Chiba reprises his role as James Bond-esque agent Tsurugi who this time embarks on a deadly road of revenge when...

Direction Norifumi Suzuki

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

Direction Yukio Noda

Cast Sonny Chiba · Chia Lun · Etsuko Shihomi · Emi Shindô

Plot Blood for Money! Sonny Chiba is "Golgo 13", a cold, calculating, ruthless assassin, working for the U.S. drug syndicate. His assignment: "take-out" Hong Kong's underworld kingpin. His only obstacle: a...

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 Teruo Ishii

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

Direction Kazuhiko Yamaguchi

Cast Sonny Chiba · Etsuko Shihomi · Emi Hayakawa · Sanae Ôhori

Plot Lee Long is a martial-arts champion who the police use as an undercover agent to infiltrate a drug ring responsible for importing heroin from Japan to Hong Kong. When he...

Direction Taku Shinjo

Cast Masanori Sera · Yukie Suzuki · Saori Iwama · Yumiko Itaya

Plot Four girls and their manager aiming for stardom!

Direction Kazuhiko Yamaguchi

Cast Sonny Chiba · Yumi Takigawa · Eiji Gô · Yutaka Nakajima

Plot This movie is based on the true life story of a Korean fighter named Choi Bae-dal (who later changed his name to Masutatsu Oyama), the founder of Kyokushin Karate in...

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Keiko Matsuzaka · Morio Kazama · Etsuko Shihomi · Ryudo Uzaki

Plot Set in the 1930s in Shanghai, the film follows the extravagant life and times of a group of jazz musicians, living from one advance paycheck to the next, as the...

Direction Shigehiro Ozawa

Cast Jirô Chiba · Sonny Chiba · Yôko Koizumi · Ryunosuke Kaneda

Plot An action movie that illustrates the struggle of Morihei Ueshiba who was born in a farming family in Wakayama on his way of pursuing the heart of martial arts until...

Direction Kazuhiko Yamaguchi

Cast Etsuko Shihomi · Akane Kawasaki · Miwa Cho · Mitchi Love

Plot When the crime boss has to pick one of his thugs for a fight he takes his knife, throws it to the roof and kills a butterfly with it, then...

Direction Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Cast Satomi Kobayashi · Toshinori Omi · Makoto Satô · Sayuri Ishibashi

Plot 9th-graders Kazuo (boy) and Kazumi (girl) take a tumble at a temple in a small seacoast town in Japan. Through supernatural intervention, their minds and bodies are switched.

Direction Kazuhiko Yamaguchi

Cast Etsuko Shihomi · Tamayo Mitsukawa · Michiyo Bandô · Hisako Tanaka

Plot This time Koryu heads to Yokohama in search of a woman named Birei, kidnapped by diamond smugglers who move their hot rocks by surgically implanting them into the nubile buttocks...

Direction Norifumi Suzuki

Cast Hiroyuki Sanada · Sonny Chiba · Etsuko Shihomi · Mikio Narita

Plot Joji learns a dark secret from his dying father; he learns he has a twin brother and a sister. He travels to find his brother and finds he has been...

Direction Shigehiro Ozawa

Cast Etsuko Shihomi · Mitchi Love · Masafumi Suzuki · Masako Araki

Plot Kiku Nakakawa, the only daughter of an old kimono shop owner in Kyoto, is enthusiastic about karate. In order to help her friend Michi avenge her brother, she sneaks into...

Direction Kazuo Takahashi

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Etsuko Shihomi · Morio Kazama · Jun Etô

Direction Ryuichi Takamori · Simon Nuchtern

Cast Sonny Chiba · Jirô Chiba · Etsuko Shihomi · Aaron Banks

Plot Karate master and anti-drug vigilante Chiba returns to his home in Japan, where he holds a press conference announcing his intention to wipe out the nation's drug industry. He also...