Screenplay: Kazuo Koike

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 Buichi Saito

Cast Tomisaburô Wakayama · Yoichi Hayashi · Michie Azuma · Akihiro Tomikawa

Synopsis Forth film in the Lone Wolf and Cub series. Ogami is hired to kill a tattooed female assassin. Gunbei Yagyu, an enemy samurai, happens upon Ogami's son, and sees his chance for revenge.

Direction Kenji Misumi

Cast Tomisaburô Wakayama · Michiyo Oguso · Akihiro Tomikawa · Shingo Yamashiro

Synopsis Fifth film in the Lone Wolf & Cub Series. 5 warriors challenge Ogami to duels. Each has 1/5th of Ogami's assassin fee and 1/5 of the information he needs to complete his assassination. His mission is to kill a mad...

Direction Kenji Misumi

Cast Tomisaburô Wakayama · Go Kato · Yuko Hamada · Isao Yamagata

Synopsis In the third film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto volunteers to be tortured by Yakuza to save a prostitute and is hired by their leader to kill an evil chamberlain.

Direction Kenji Misumi

Cast Tomisaburô Wakayama · Fumio Watanabe · Tomoko Mayama · Shigeru Tsuyuguchi

Synopsis In this first film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, adapted from the manga by Kazuo Koike, we are told the story of the Lone Wolf and Cub's origin. Ogami Itto, the official Shogunate executioner, has been framed for...

Direction Yoshiyuki Kuroda

Cast Tomisaburô Wakayama · Akihiro Tomikawa · Junko Hitomi · Goro Mutsumi

Synopsis The final film, and the final confrontation between Ogami and Retsudo. With most of his family already dead at Ogami's hands, Retsudo launches one last plot to destroy him, and when that fails, unleashes the fury of every remaining member...

Direction Yoshio Inoue

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Kô Nishimura · Mako Midori · Mikio Narita

Synopsis Follow the money. In a time of economic disaster for wage earners, Hanzo discovers a conspiracy among high officials to "borrow" gold from the shogunate's treasury and loan it out to the destitute, including impecunious samurai - exacting either interest...

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 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 Daisuke Nishio · Nobutaka Nishizawa · Johei Matsuura · Shigeyasu Yamauchi

Synopsis Yo Hinomura was an ordinary Japanese potter when a run-in with a Chinese mafia changed his life forever. Now an assassin for the 108 Dragons, Yo is the perfect killing machine. As a sign for remorse over his victims, he...

Direction Kenji Misumi

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Yukiji Asaoka · Mari Atsumi · Kô Nishimura

Synopsis Hanzo has been a constable for 4 years but has not as yet taken the policeman's blood oath. He refuses to make such an oath because the police accept gifts from the daiyamo (lords), the brothels and tradesman for the...

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 Christophe Gans

Cast Julie Condra · Kevan Ohtsji · Mark Dacascos · Debbie Podowski

Synopsis A lethal assassin for a secret Chinese organisation, who sheds tears of regret each time he kills, is seen swiftly and mercilessly executing three Yakuza gangsters by a beautiful artist. She is captivated by the grace of his kill and...

Direction Shinsuke Sato

Cast Hideaki Ito · Yumiko Shaku · Shiro Sano · Yoichi Numata

Synopsis In the near future, Japan is ruled once more by a monarchy. But, rebels opposed to this rule seek to overthrow the government. The House of Takemikazuchi, a band of assassins is hired by the government to suppress the rebels....

Direction Teruo Ishii

Cast Tetsurô Tanba · Gorô Ibuki · Tatsuo Endô · Ryohei Uchida

Synopsis In PORNO PERIOD DRAMA, Tetsuro Tanba plays a nihilistic ronin who faces down the "Clan of the Forgotten Eight", who got their name because they lost all their basic emotions like conscience, gratitude, loyalty, shame etc. With his sword Onibouchou...

Direction Clarence Fok

Cast Samuel Hui · Maggie Cheung · Nina Li Chi · Carrie Ng

Synopsis Loosely based on the popular manga comic book, Crying Freeman. about a Chinese martial artist in Russia, kidnapped by the master of an underworld organization. Stripped of his past memories he is trained by the master to become the society's...

Direction Atsutoshi Umezawa · Kazumi Fukushima · Shinichi Suzuki

Synopsis Tokiwa was the apartment complex where a group of stellar artists lived in 1953. Hiro Terada, Motoo Abiko and Hiroshi Fujimoto, Shotaro Ishinomori, and Fujio Akatsuka shared the trials and tribulations of being struggling young artists and writers with no...

Direction Phillip Ko

Cast Simon Yam · Joey Wong · Phillip Ko · Yasuyoshi Shikamura

Direction Takashi Tsuboshima

Cast Keiko Aramaki · Hiroshi Ayukawa · Jun Fujimaki · Shôzô Fukuyama

Synopsis Deep in the mountains of feudal Japan, a group of children endure cruel and unorthodox training in order to become the Shogunate's most secret and deadly weapons - the Demon Spies! Their true identities are hidden - even from each...

Direction Satoshi Dezaki · Yoshio Takeuchi

Synopsis Yuko Kusaka is a Japanese journalist sent to Brazil to do a report on the gold rush phenomenon that seems to be making many people rich from night to day. Rumors say that among the many "garimpeiros" (gold diggers) currently...