Screenplay: Seiji Hoshikawa

Direction Kenji Misumi

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Nobuo Kaneko · Gen Kimura · Ikuko Môri

Direction Tokuzo Tanaka

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Shiho Fujimura · Kaoru Yachigusa · Ichirô Nakatani

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 Seijun Suzuki

Cast Tamio Kawaji · Tomoko Naraoka · Yoshiko Nezu · Sayuri Yoshinaga

Direction Kimiyoshi Yasuda

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Yuko Hamada · Kyooko Azuma · Saburo Date

Direction Kazuo Mori

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Yumiko Nogawa · Shigeru Amachi · Takuya Fujioka

Direction Buichi Saito

Cast Chieko Matsubara · Tetsuya Watari · Shigeru Tsuyuguchi · Hiroko Ogi

Plot At the end of the Meiji era, when the new criminal law was enacted, Masaru Asakusa, a former Masaruro Bashigo, declined to retire on this occasion and decided to announce...

Direction Shintarô Katsu · Eiichi Kudo · Kazuo Kuroki · Kazuo Mori

Cast Yoshio Harada · Yusaku Matsuda · Makoto Fujita · Masumi Harukawa

Plot TV series (1976).

Direction Yoichi Takabayashi

Cast Akiko Kana · Seiya Nakano · Noboru Nakaya · Kyôko Togawa

Direction Toshio Masuda

Cast Yujiro Ishihara · Ruriko Asaoka · Tamaki Sawa · Tatsuya Fuji

Plot A ninkyô yakuza story with what, probably for most squeamish westerners anyway, is a disturbing opening titles sequence. One of the many variations on a yakuza clan's sakazuki (sake cup...

Direction Shintarô Katsu · Tokuzo Tanaka · Akikazu Ota · Kazuo Mori

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Shintarô Akatsuki · Renji Ishibashi · Keizo Kanie

Plot Blind masseur Zatôichi travels from town to town gambling, drinking, and fighting off the local gangs.

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Sachiko Murase · Mayumi Ogawa · Daisuke Kato

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 Kimiyoshi Yasuda

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Mako Midori · Yusuke Kawazu · Maka Sarijo

Direction Koreyoshi Kurahara

Cast Jô Shishido · Reiko Sasamori · Patricia Conde · Ryoji Hayama

Direction Kenji Misumi

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Tamao Nakamura · Michiko Sugata · Sanae Nakahara

Direction Tokuzo Tanaka

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Tamao Nakamura · Chitose Maki · Gen Kimura

Direction Umetsugu Inoue

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Hizuru Takachiho · Masayo Banri · Shigeru Amachi

Plot A warlords' retainer offers a farmer the chance to become a samurai, but he is instead forced to serve as a double of the warlord at expense of his freedom.

Direction Kenji Misumi

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Eiko Taki · Mikiko Tsubouchi · Jun Fujimaki

Plot A wandering yakuza in search for the man responsible for slicing up his father and an amateur samurai searching for the whereabouts of his own father are thrown together on...

Direction Akira Inoue

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Yaeko Mizutani · Ichirô Nakatani · Michiko Ai

Plot Princess Kiku, Shogun's daughter, wants revenge on Nemuri Kyoshiro for embarrassing her.