Osamu Sakai

Zatoichi's Conspiracy (1973)

Zatoichi, the famed blind swordsman, returns to his home village for the first time in many years. He is befriended by Omiyo, who had the same wet-nurse as Zatoichi. He also encounters a boyhood friend, Shinbei, who is now wealthy and appears not to rememb ...

Zatoichi at Large (1972)

Blind masseur and master swordsman Zatoichi finds a robbed and fatally wounded pregnant woman, whose baby he delivers before she dies. He takes the baby in search of its father and finds the child's aunt, who is about to be forced into prostitution for wan ...

Easy Money (1970)

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

The Invisible Swordsman (1970)

A cowardly boy fencer becomes invisible and matchless through a magic potion. ...

The Funeral Racket (1968)

The film portrays a satirical view of today's heartless money-oriented society. ...

Green Sex (1968)

A film about two boys and two girls, and how they each come to sex, each in his or her own way. ...

Zatoichi the Outlaw (1967)

When a local gambling house kidnaps some peasants because they failed to pay their debts, a rival gambling house pays their debts and sets them free. ...

Five Star Private (1967)

A Woman's Gamble (1966)

Onna no Toba, is the first film in long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin, an honest dealer in the criminal underworld of yakuza-run gambling, as she sets out to become Japan's numb ...

Sleepy Eyes of Death 8: Sword of Villainy (1966)

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. T ...

Dynamite Doctor (1966)

Film by director Kenji Misumi ...

Subarashii matsu ojisan (1973)

A human drama in which Hajime Hana plays an old-fashioned craftsman and conveys the richness of his heart. After losing his only son, Uncle Matsu, a craftsman, gathers neighborhood children and teaches them how to make crafts. What the boys learned from hi ...