Casts & Crew
Raizō Ichikawa
Shintarō Katsu
Kôjirô Hongô
Hiroshi Kawaguchi
Keizô Kawasaki
Katsuhiko Kobayashi
Hajime Mitamura
Matasaburô Niwa
Ryûzô Shimada
Jôji Tsurumi
Shirô Ôtsuji
Yoshirô Kitahara
Jun Negami
Koreya Senda
Eijirō Tōno
Bontarô Miake
Toshio Chiba
Ryuichi Ishii
Yoichi Funaki
Osamu Maruyama
San'emon Arashi
Mitsugu Terashima
Yûsaku Terashima
Gen Shimizu
Kôichi Katsuragi
Ryônosuke Azuma
Okuyama Asao
Kinya Ichikawa
Shintarō Nanjō
Seishirō Hara
Saburo Date
Ikkei Tamaki
Yukio Horikita
Fumihiko Yokoyama
Masayoshi Kikuno
Hajime Koshikawa
Bonta Maru
Yûji Hamada
Ganjiro Nakamura
Jukai Ichikawa
Machiko Kyō
Tamao Nakamura
Charito Solis
Junko Kano
Fujiko Yamamoto
Isuzu Yamada
Yumeji Tsukioka
Tanie Kitabayashi
Chikako Hosokawa
Haruko Sugimura
Mieko Kendo
Reiko Fujiwara
Tokiko Mita
Hiromi Ichida
Michiko Ai
Reiko Kongo
Kimiko Tachibana
Also Directed by Kenji Misumi
In a mountainous region of Japan, Lord Arakawa kidnaps the men of nearby villages to use as slave labor, producing gunpowder from his sulfur pits. A band of young boys decide to rescue their enslaved fathers on their own.
Nemuri Kyoshiro discovers a conspiracy centering around a band of disgruntled samurai wanting to avenge the death of their sensei, a political reformer that pushed for better provisions for the lower classes until he was assassinated by Shogunate agents. Their plot, to set fire to the oil refineries of two rich merchants and unleash a raging inferno that will hopefully burn down the Edo Castle.
The film follows the story of Sugi Toranosuke, a ronin, who returns to his home town of Edo many years after his attempted suicide as a sickly child. Rescued and adopted by a master swordsman, he has grown into a master swordsman and a very kind gentleman. The time is around 1868 the year that the nails were finally put into the coffin containing the feudal system that nurtured and sustained the samurai. Sugi is confused and unsure about what is happening but his teacher wants him out of the chaos of the multiple power struggles between the various clans.
Zatoichi makes friends with a dangerous chess player, while fending off angry yakuza and bloodthirsty relatives out for revenge, and trying to save a sick child. Meanwhile, his luck with dice is turning.
One of Japanese folklore's most popular characters is brought to life on the silver screen in this terrific version of legendary Demon slaying Peach Boy.
A Japanese drama featuring the one-eyed, one-armed swordsman
When 150 guns are stolen from Iwakuni base and two police officers are shot dead, a detective criminal tries to find out the truth.
When a nobleman finds a woman to be an obstacle to his growing political influence, he kills her and her cat and has their bodies immured in a wall. Shortly afterwards, a catlike demon begins to haunt the castle.
Story about a gambler who gets involved in a struggle between companies.
Omnibus picture, consisting of three stories.