Cast: Katsuhiko Kobayashi

Direction Tokuzo Tanaka

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Miwa Takada · Masayo Banri · Junichiro Narita

Plot Blind swordsman/masseur Ichi (known as Zatoichi, or "Masseur Ichi") angers a local yakuza gang when he defeats several of them in a wrestling match. When he finds that his long...

Direction Satsuo Yamamoto

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Shiho Fujimura · Saburo Date · Katsuhiko Kobayashi

Plot As nefarious warlord Oda Nobunaga continues his quest to conquer all of Japan, a powerful young ninja becomes ensnared in a plot to kill the powerful ruler in this period...

Direction Hideo Gosha

Cast Shima Iwashita · Rino Katase · Masanori Sera · Murasaki Fujima

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Ayako Wakao · Hiroshi Kawaguchi · Eiji Funakoshi · Seiji Miyaguchi

Direction Tokuzo Tanaka

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Machiko Kyô · Katsuhiko Kobayashi · Junko Kozakura

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Ken Takakura · Ryo Ikebe · Sumiko Fuji · Yoshi Kato

Plot Fourth film in the "Shôwa Zankyô-den" series. This expression means duty, obligations, and rules obeyed by gangsters and outlaws in the pre-Shôwa era.

Direction Kenji Misumi

Cast Kojiro Hongo · Charito Solis · Shintarô Katsu · Machiko Kyô

Plot Shaka is an epic tale about the life of Buddha Shakamuni.

Direction Kunio Watanabe

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Katsuhiko Kobayashi · Yukio Hashi · Yôko Uraji

Direction Kazuo Ikehiro

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Saburo Date · Shinjirô Asano · Jun Hamamura

Direction Kunio Watanabe

Cast Kazuo Hasegawa · Kojiro Hongo · Tazuko Niki · Katsuhiko Kobayashi

Direction Kazuo Mori

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Mikiko Tsubouchi · Miwa Takada · Ken Utsui

Direction Keigo Kimura

Cast Kenji Sugawara · Junko Kano · Tazuko Niki · Masumi Harukawa

Direction Tokuzo Tanaka

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Saburo Date · Midori Isomura · Ganjiro Nakamura

Plot [Period covered: 1614-1615] 4th film in the shinobi no mono series Tokugawa Ieyasu is now the ruler of all Japan. But one last loose thread must be tied up before...

Direction Brett Ratner

Cast Mason Reese · Michael J. Anderson · Anna Ling · Rebecca Gayheart

Plot Former child star Mason Reese goes out for a night on the town. He has a run in with a fan of his while at a sushi resturant.

Direction Kenji Misumi

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Shiho Fujimura · Tomisaburô Wakayama · Shigeru Amachi

Plot As change sweep Japan, an honest man joins the Shinsengumi out of respect for their leader and because he wants to live and die as a samurai. However, as his...

Direction Masahiro Makino

Cast Ken Takakura · Kanbi Fujiyama · Ryuko Azuma · Seizaburô Kawazu

Direction Tokuzo Tanaka

Cast Kazuo Hasegawa · Kyôko Kagawa · Seizaburô Kawazu · Katsuhiko Kobayashi

Plot It's 1643 in Japan. As the Kato clan of Aizu falls from power two brave samurai will settle a dispute in the time-honored tradition of their clan, by drawing their...

Direction Yasuo Furuhata

Cast Ken Takakura · Eiji Bandô · Sumiko Fuji · Yasuko Tomita

Plot The film tells story of a close friendship undone by love.

Direction Kazuo Mori

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Katsuhiko Kobayashi · Hajime Mitamura · Kyôko Enami

Plot During Japan's Warring States period three young Tokugawa vassals head their separate ways after Takeda Shingen's forces overran their castle. When they next meet they have all joined opposing sides.

Direction Kunio Watanabe

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Ken Utsui · Katsuhiko Kobayashi · Shiho Fujimura