Screenplay: Hajime Takaiwa

Plot Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds of soldiers, Harumi is commandeered by the brutal Lieutenant Narita but falls for the...

6.8

142 votes

6.8

142 votes

Shinobi no mono (Band of Assassins)

1962 · Movie · 104 min. · Japan

Action Drama 16th Century Ninjas

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...

6.6

61 votes

6.6

61 votes

Incident at Blood Pass

1970 · Movie · 118 min. · Japan

Action Drama Feudal Japan Samurai

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Yujiro Ishihara · Ruriko Asaoka · Shintarô Katsu

Plot In the Edo period, a nameless ronin accepts an assignment to go to a mountain pass and wait. Near the pass he stops at an inn where a collection of...

6.2

58 votes

6.2

58 votes

Sleepy Eyes of Death: Hell Is a Woman

1968 · Movie · 85 min. · Japan

Drama Action Samurai Feudal Japan Sequel

Direction Tokuzo Tanaka

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Miwa Takada · Yaeko Mizutani · Takahiro Tamura

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The Full Moon Swordsman

1969 · Movie · 82 min. · Japan

Action Sequel

Direction Kazuo Mori

Cast Hiroki Matsukata · Tomomi Satô · Sanae Nakahara · Machiko Hasegawa

Plot Nemuri Kyoshiro this time gets involved in a plot to replace the shogun successor.

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Shinobi No Mono 8: A New Beginning

1966 · Movie · 91 min. · Japan

Action Drama Ninjas 16th Century Sequel

Direction Kazuo Ikehiro

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Manami Fuji · Michiyo Oguso · Yûnosuke Itô

Plot [Period Covered: 1570-1573] Towards the end of the Tenmon Era, Shogun Ashikaga`s powers were weakening by the day and many were there who planned to overthrow him. It was the...

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The Ghost of the One Eyed Man

1965 · Movie · 84 min. · Japan

Horror Japanese Horror

Direction Tsuneo Kobayashi

Cast Kô Nishimura · Sanae Nakahara · Masao Mishima · Yusuke Kawazu

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House of Terrors

1965 · Movie · 81 min. · Japan

Horror

Direction Hajime Satô

Cast Kô Nishimura · Yûko Kusunoki · Harold Conway · Shinjiro Ebara

Plot A man, Chonin Mitake, dies crazy after long agony, and his dead body is cremated. His widow Yoshi, investigating on the past of her husband, goes to the mansion where...

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Shinobi no Mono 7: Mist Saizo Strikes Back

1966 · Movie · 87 min. · Japan

Action Drama Ninjas 17th Century Sequel

Direction Kazuo Mori

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Shiho Fujimura · Yûko Kusunoki · Takahiro Tamura

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Akai shuriken

1965 · Movie · 87 min. · Japan

Drama

Direction Tokuzo Tanaka

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Masumi Harukawa · Chitose Kobayashi · Isao Yamagata

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On National Authority

1958 · Movie · 95 min. · Japan

Drama Feudal Japan

Direction Shigehiro Ozawa

Cast Chiezô Kataoka · Kotaro Satomi · Ryunosuke Tsukigata · Hiroko Sakuramachi

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Waka oyabun kyôjô tabi

1967 · Movie · 84 min. · Japan

Action Crime

Direction Kazuo Mori

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Kyôko Enami · Jun Fujimaki · Fumio Watanabe

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Shinobi No Mono 4: Siege

1964 · Movie · 87 min. · Japan

Drama Action Ninjas 17th Century Sequel

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...

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The Hoodlum Priest

1967 · Movie · 84 min. · Japan

Action Drama Crime

Direction Kimiyoshi Yasuda

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Mayumi Ogawa · Hosei Komatsu · Naoko Kubo

Plot The first of two films in the Ryuzen series, a rogue martial arts practicing, fornicating, alcohol drinking, gambling priest who competes against the local yakuza thug by opening his own...

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