Ryūtarō Gomi

A giant stone statue comes to life to protect the residents of a small town against the depradations of an evil warlord.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Miwa Takada

Blind masseur Zatoichi is nursed back to health by a young woman after he is shot by a gang member. Zatoichi, who had come to the village to repay a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Zatoichi's trek through 88 temples to atone for his violent past is interrupted as he stumbles into a village terrorized by a violent yakuza boss.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Hanpei is a gentle young samurai that loves flowers. One day, he witnesses an old man's quick draw of the sword. He is so impressed that he becomes...

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemployed, and with no family, he hopes to find a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

A greedy developer, in league with a corrupt Shrine Magistrate, brutally tries to drive people out of a tenement building and destroy the shrine in...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Jun Fujimaki

In 1730, the Tokugawa Shogunate orders the Yagyu Clan to repair a huge shrine. Since it cannot refuse the Shogunate's request, the impoverished Yagyu...

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Cast: Tetsuro Tamba

[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...

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

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....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

An abandoned temple in the mountains outside of the old capital city of Kyoto is the scene of a fated meeting between a traveling priest, two women,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Fourth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.

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Cast: Kyōko Enami

The tragic, yet exciting story of the friendship between Nakayama Yasubei, a member of the 47 Ronin, and Tange Tenzen, a relative by marriage of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

Zatoichi comes upon the town of Tonda, overrun by gangsters. Using one of his favorite techniques, Zatoichi proceeds to win 8 ryo in a rigged...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

The third movie following the exploits of bounty hunter Shikoro Ichibei. The theft of almost a half ton of gold from the shogunate's official mine...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

In the fourth film of series, Secret Assignment, Raizo again plays the Jiro Shiina. This time he's out to discover who is spying for the British in...

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Well before “Shogun” as warring clans were fighting for power throughout Japan, a Portuguese vessel ran aground off Tanegashima. Lord...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rick Jason

Zatoichi is mentored by the blind leader of a secret organization as he contends with both the Yakuza and a jealous husband.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Isazo is a traveling gambler and living legend in the world of yakuza, known for his swordsmanship and bravery, his impeccable manners, and his...

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Wandering samurai Nemuri Kyoshiro (Raizô Ichikawa) finds a bulls-eye on his back after befriending the shogunate's tightfisted financial...

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Sixth film in the series. A little boy who just wants to be a carpenter is at the center of a plot that might topple -- or save -- a mighty Clan,...

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

[Period covered: 1616] Kirigakure Saizo (Mist Saizo) returns for the final time as he sets out to assassinate Tokugawa Ieyasu in order to avenge the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

The masked daughter of the Shogun wants to kill a samurai who has seen her scarred face. She sends waves of ninja warriors to kill the samurai and...

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Set up to be the patsy by a rival gang, Furuta Makoto attacks the yakuza boss he thinks is responsible for his father’s murder. He then learns...

Genre: Action

Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

The Son of the Black Mass returns in this ninth installment in Daiei's longstanding Nemuri Kyoshiro series. This time Raizo Ichikawa as Nemuri is...

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Inspector General Kanjuro Sano conspires with the future shogun twin brother. They replace Ieyoshi Tokugawa with his twin, but it becomes a problem...

Genre: Action

Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

Lord Oda Nobunaga gains control of nearly all of Japan and tries to enlist the aid of Magoichi and his 3.000 gunners.

Genre: Action

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

This is the story of Gonpachi, a ronin who falls in love with the daughter of a man he had killed many years before.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hashizo Okawa

A naively honorable samurai comes to the bitter realization that his devotion to moral samurai principles makes him an oddity among his peers, and a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

A coward boy fencer becomes invisible and matchless through a magic pill.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Osamu Sakai

Zatoichi is forced to kill a young man who owes a debt to a yakuza boss. Moments later, his sister Osode arrives with the money she earned...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu

The first film in the 2 part series about Ryuzen, a renegade martial-arts priest who, in addition to breaking all the commandments against sex and...

Genre: Action

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Zatoichi makes friends with a dangerous chess player, while fending off angry yakuza and bloodthirsty relatives out for revenge, and trying to save a...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Newly graduated Miyamoto Otone is to inherit a fortune from a distant relative on the condition that she marries Takato Shunsaku, a man she has never...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

A dashing edition with fights , love, and laughter, in which the sorrows and joys of the guiltless world are colored by the guiltless travel crow,...

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Cast: Ryūji Shinagawa

In the book of the world's greatest rogues, the number one man can only be one person.

Genre: Action

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Genre: Crime

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Japanese crime film

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Cast: Michiyo Yasuda

The second film in the "Suruga yukyoden" series, in which Shintaro Katsu plays Jirocho Shimizu. The film features Omasa, Komasa, Ocho, who will...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Ronin Sasaki Kojiro pursues his ultimate goal of becoming a master swordsman. Along the way he encounters another great swordsman, Miyamoto Musashi.

Genre: History

Cast: Chiyonosuke Azuma

An action-comedy about three men who try to bilk money out of gambling dens.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

The film is set in Kyoto at the end of the Tokugawa period, when there is a fierce clash between the supporters of the Emperor, who are fighting for...

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Genre: Crime

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

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Cast: Michiyo Yasuda

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Cast: Michiyo Yasuda

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Teruo Yoshida

Film directed by Kenji Misumi

Genre: Action

Cast: Tōru Abe

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu

It's fighting fires and swordsmen with a touch of music in this free-for-all of action and excitement combining the talents of Japan's most popular...

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Cast: Hibari Misora

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu

First movie of the Inu series directed by Tokuzō Tanaka

Genre: Action

Cast: Jiro Tamiya

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Yasuda plays Omon, a woman using bamboo leaves as darts/blades to disable and kill her enemies.

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Cast: Michiyo Yasuda

A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shintarō Katsu