Four Days of Snow and Blood
Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nationalist parts of the military. Several leading politicians were killed and the center of Tokyo was briefly held by the insurgents before the coup was suppressed.
Hideo Gosha
Kazuo Kasahara
Casts & Crew
Kenichi Hagiwara
Tomokazu Miura
Masahiro Motoki
Hiroshi Katsuno
Katsutoshi Atarashi
Narimi Arimori
Shinsuke Ashida
Miwako Fujitani
Tamotsu Ishibashi
Guts Ishimatsu
Chikako Kaku
Nobuo Kaneko
Masaya Kato
Takeshi Katō
Yoshiko Kuga
Takeshi Kusaka
Hiroki Matsukata
Kan Mikami
Kaho Minami
Masako Motai
Hiroyuki Nagato
Tatsuya Nakadai
Yûko Natori
Jinpachi Nezu
Shin'ya Ohwada
Satoshi Okita
Akira Onodera
Daisuke Ryû
Akira Sakata
Shiro Sano
Mizuho Suzuki
Tomoko Takabe
Hideo Takamatsu
Mieko Takamine
Naoto Takenaka
Shin Takuma
Takahiro Tamura
Tetsurō Tamba
Shingo Tsurumi
Tsuyoshi Ujiki
Tatsuo Umemiya
Tsunehiko Watase
Kaoru Yachigusa
Narumi Yasuda
Takuzō Kawatani
Also Directed by Hideo Gosha
Rin Jyoshima lost her father to death-by-gambling; years later, she's grown up in the Kosugi household and has fallen victim to gambling herself.
This is the story of a vagrant samurai – the solitary, savage and scrupulous Kiba – who arrives at a village to defend a beautiful, blind woman against a sinister plot. Her assailants then send against him another samurai, named Sana, who is without scruples. The fight between them will become personal, for the honor and love of the blind woman.
Kumokiri Nizaemon, a former samurai warrior, has abandoned his class to become the leader of a gang of thieves. He leads his outlaws in an attempt to rob the castle of his former clan.
With a Kansai syndicate setting their sights on Tokyo, a former yakuza boss gets dragged back into a world of violence.
Kiba Okaminosuke finds himself entangled with a group of prisoners being transported to their executions, one of whom oddly looks exactly like his dead father. There are crooked gold miners, a beautiful girl who is unfortunately a complete lunatic and a dojo master who is obsessed with killing Kiba just to prove that his school's sword style is the best.
When a fugitive begins a romance with the woman hiding him from the law, it becomes uncertain whether he will ever escape the shadow of his heinous crimes--or the detectives hot on his trail.
While her husband is in prison doing time, Tamaki, the wife of a yakuza capo, runs her spouse’s gang with an iron hand. Meanwhile, Makoto, her younger sister, marries a member of a rival band after being raped by him. The two sisters, united by blood ties but married to enemy yakuzas, will ultimately have to decide whose side they’re on.
The indolent son of an oil vendor becomes a regular customer of a prostitute, racks up a mountain of debt, and is disowned by his parents.
Yataro Tanigawa, a one-eyed hired assassin, impresses yakuza boss Gomyo Kiyoemon with his skill. Gomyo hires Tanigawa as his bodyguard, or yojimbo, to protect him during an inter-clan conflict. Tanigawa quickly rises in stature in the clan, but finds his boss's enemies almost overwhelming.
A guilt-haunted samurai warrior attempts to stop a massacre taking place.