Cast: Shin Kishida

Direction Kenji Misumi

Cast Tomisaburô Wakayama · Kayo Matsuo · Akiji Kobayashi · Minoru Oki

Synopsis In the second film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto battles a group of female ninja in the employ of the Yagyu clan and must assassinate a traitor who plans to sell his clan's secrets to the...

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Tatsuya Nakadai · Shin Kishida · Yôsuke Kondô

Synopsis The story takes place in feudal Japan, when any commerce with the rest of the world was strictly prohibited. An idealist suddenly appears in an isolated inn (the one that the title refers to), the head-quarters of a group of...

Direction Kihachi Okamoto

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Etsushi Takahashi · Shigeru Kôyama · Akira Kubo

Synopsis Tatsuya Nakadai stars as Genta, a former samurai who became disillusioned with the samurai lifestyle and left it behind to become a wandering yakuza (gang) member. He meets Hanjiro Tabata (Etsushi Takahashi) a farmer who wants to become a samurai...

Direction Koreyoshi Kurahara

Cast Ken Takakura · Tsunehiko Watase · Eiji Okada · Keiko Oginome

Synopsis Two Japanese scientists, Ushioda and Ochi, develop a bond with their sled dogs while on an expedition in Antarctica. Ushioda and Ochi eventually leave Antarctica, only to return to search for the dogs inadvertently marooned there.

Direction Akio Jissoji

Cast Shin Kishida · Hiroko Sakurai · Saburo Shinoda · Ryo Tamura

Synopsis The young houseboy in Uta wakes up every night to patrol the house of a teacher with a flashlight. He leads an austere life of meditation and he focuses his devotional attention on writing inscriptions for tombstones. In one of...

Direction Kihachi Okamoto

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Shima Iwashita · Etsushi Takahashi · Minori Terada

Synopsis Impersonating an Imperial Army officer by wearing a "red lion's mane", a poor servant returns to his village after 10 years of absence to end the village's suffering caused by corrupt officials and businessmen.

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Keiko Aikawa · Kazuko Ineno · Keizo Kanie

Synopsis Against the backdrop of the Edo treasury devaluing currency and driving many into poverty, Hanzo Itami enforces the law without regard to status. He shows inadequate respect to the treasurer, who wants him dead. He finds a young woman dead...

Direction Kihachi Okamoto

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Toshirô Mifune · Ayako Wakao · Osamu Takizawa

Direction Robert Houston

Cast Tomisaburô Wakayama · Kayo Matsuo · Minoru Oki · Akiji Kobayashi

Synopsis Long ago there was a great samurai warrior who served his Shogun honorably. The Shogun however grew paranoid as he became more and more senile. The Shogun sought to destroy all those who might stand to oppose his rule, and...

Direction Akio Jissoji

Cast Shin Kishida · Kôji Shimizu · Hiroko Sakurai · Ryo Tamura

Synopsis A married couple travels in order to engage in a swing practice, there being attacked by a group of maniacs. Strangely interested in their attackers they begin to search for them and end up turning adepts of their sexual-magic community.

Direction Toshiya Fujita

Cast Meiko Kaji · Yoshio Harada · Kazuko Yoshiyuki · Shin Kishida

Synopsis Lady Snowblood (Shurayuki-hime) is caught by the police and sentenced to death for her crimes (in Lady Snowblood I). As she is sent to the gallows she is rescued by the secret police who offer her a deal to assassinate...

Direction Michio Yamamoto

Cast Midori Fujita · Osahide Takahashi · Sanae Emi · Shin Kishida

Synopsis A doctor investigates the murders of several women at a lakeside resort. His investigation leads him to believe that a vampire is responsible for the murders. He sets out to track the vampire down.

Direction Tatsumi Kumashiro

Cast Shin Kishida · Naomi Tani · Melka Seri · Terumi Azuma

Synopsis The comedic tribulations of a self-important porn film director feature in this Japanese softcore equivalent of Boogie Nights. Tatsumi Kumashiro has been cited as one of the most important Japanese film directors of the 1970s. While Woods Are Wet represents...

Direction Michio Yamamoto

Cast Toshio Kurosawa · Mariko Mochizuki · Kunie Tanaka · Shin Kishida

Synopsis Dracula, played by an uncredited caucasian, was shipwrecked in the 1600s in Japan, when Christianity was illegal. He was forced to spit on the cross and wander alone in the desert. Upon finding himself bleeding, he was so thirsty he...

Direction Jun Fukuda

Cast Masaaki Daimon · Kazuya Aoyama · Reiko Tajima · Beru-Bera Lin

Synopsis Aliens intend to take over the planet and, just in case Godzilla tries to interfere, have built a mechanical version of him to put an end to his interference. The Earth humans summon the legendary King Seesar to assist Godzilla...

Direction Hitoshi Ôsu

Cast Yusaku Matsuda · Yôko Takahashi · Tetsurô Tanba · Shin Kishida

Synopsis A cowardly samurai is sent as an official executioner targeting the clan's former sword instructor, a man whose sword and spear skills are second to none.

Direction Chusei Sone

Cast Emi Yokoyama · Kaoru Janbo · Kei Sato · Shin Kishida

Synopsis Mika Hino is a sharp-shooting investigator that belongs to the infamous “Gator Branch.” When an executive board member of a trading company is accused of being involved in a bribery, Mika is assigned to keep watch over him. A few...

Direction Akio Jissoji

Cast Janet Hatta · Shin Kishida · Minori Terada · Chisako Hara

Synopsis After a number of stressful affairs, a court lady becomes a nun in order to pursue a life without desire.

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Michiyo Oguso · Machiko Kyô · Masahiko Tsugawa

Direction Kiyoshi Nishimura

Cast Toshio Kurosawa · Noriko Takahashi · Shin Kishida · Taiji Tonoyama