Cast: Isamu Nagato

Direction Hideo Gosha

Cast Tetsurô Tanba · Kyoko Aoi · Kamatari Fujiwara · Mikijiro Hira

Plot Shiba, a wandering ronin, encounters a band of peasants who have kidnapped the daughter of their dictatorial magistrate, in hopes of coercing from him a reduction in taxes. Shiba takes...

Direction Toshio Masuda · Hajime Takaiwa

Cast Atsuo Nakamura · Sanae Tsuchida · Kei Sato · Isamu Nagato

Direction Kazuo Ikehiro

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Mayumi Ogawa · Kaneko Iwasaki · Isamu Nagato

Direction Shuei Matsubayashi

Cast Rentarô Mikuni · Reiko Ohara · Hajime Hana · Kei Sato

Direction Kiyoshi Miyakoshi

Cast Isao Natsuyagi · Sonny Chiba · Takeshi Maya · Kazue Ito

Plot This remake of the classic film features the addition of Chiba Shinichi and Natsuyagi Isao as political intrigue reigns supreme. Tadanaga, the younger son of Shogun Hidetada has signed a...

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Yuki Kimura · Isamu Nagato · Kô Nishimura · Naoko Otani

Plot Based on a mystery by Taiwanese-Japanese author Chin Shun-shin. After two elderly men in Yokohama quarrel over a Yang dynasty artifact, one of the men turns up dead with mysterious...

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Kiyoshi Atsumi · Chieko Baisho · Keiko Takeshita · Kiichi Nakai

Plot When his travels bring him to Western Japan, Tora-san decides to pay his respects to the late Hyoichiro Suwa, his sister's father-in-law. He gets drunk with the priest at the...

Direction Takahisa Zeze

Cast Asuka Kurosawa · Yoko Yamashita · Ken Mitsuishi · Misaki Mori

Plot A child suddenly disappears in a small village and his mother desperately searches for clues.

Direction Kimiyoshi Yasuda

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Jiro Tamiya · Mitsuko Mori · Yuko Hamada

Plot Asakichi is involved in the matter of an inheritance for which several yakuza bands fight.

Direction Sadatsugu Matsuda

Cast Yôko Matsuyama · Chizuko Arai · Jun Tatara · Shin'ichi Yanagisawa

Plot A young blind girl is abandoned by her mother. When her guardian is killed, she learns to wield a sword from a traveling "Ronin". She travels to seek her mother...

Direction Seiichiro Uchikawa

Cast Isamu Nagato · Tetsurô Tanba · Shima Iwashita · Chieko Baisho

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Naoko Amihama · Saburô Kitajima · Isamu Nagato · Yoshiyuki Omori

Plot Miike’s take on Fukasaku Kinji’s Jingi Naki Tatakai series! Seventeen year old Tetsuya kills the boss of a rival gang with the promise of being made. After seven years of...

Direction Eiichi Kudo · Hideo Suzuki · Kazuo Ikehiro · Kazuo Mori

Cast Isamu Nagato · Ikkô Furuya · Akiko Nomura · Tamotsu Hayakawa

Plot TV series (1977-1978). 2 seasons. 57 episodes.

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Eisei Amamoto · Yuriko Hoshi · Kenjiro Ishiyama · Tatsuya Mihashi