Toshiaki Tsushima

Onihei Crime Files: The Final Kohen - Unryu Ken (2016)

Onihei Crime Files: Conscience of a Worm (2011)

Detective Onihei better known as "Heizo the Demon" heads a group of skilled officers, however, one of those special officers got himself into a web of betrayal and deceit, and become the very thing Heizo the Demon investigates daily. ...

Onihei Crime Files: Sutegoro Takahagi (2010)

Takahagi Sutegoro is highly skilled at casing locations for thieves so that he can sell detailed floor plans to them. He suffers an injury to his leg while trying to help a parent and a child being threatened by samurai. Heizo jumps in and chases the samur ...

Onihei Crime Files: Bungoro Amabiki (2009)

Heizo "The Demon" deals with an arson thief gang known as "Bungoro" the fire thief who leaves a calling card as evidence. As a street notice, showing the thief of Ohno shop, but it is not Bungoro, it's the quick work of a solo member. Heizo Hasegawa with h ...

Onihei Crime Files: The Inside Woman (2008)

Edo town thief called "Acrobatics boy" has been rampant in town, just that time, spy, Goro of Otaki will see a woman who had been an inside contact of the Yataro by chance. Also, Heizo is worried about the child of Inoue Tatsuizumi, who decided to ask for ...

Onihei Crime Files: Unibrow (2007)

Heizo "The Demon" investigates the shop of Toshimaya the swordsmith, where 280 ryo was stolen and twelve people murdered. This particular group of theives are most dangerous because of the willingness to kill for money, but what about this mysterious unibr ...

Onihei Crime Files Special: Bandits (2006)

An old thief, Kuhei Sagiwara, used to visit his hometown at the foot of the Kurikara Pass in Kaga Province. Hiding from the rain, he overheard a secret conversation between three men, just like him, hiding from the rain. These three conspired to kill Heizo ...

Onihei Crime Files Special: Okatsu from Yamabukiya (2005)

Heizo's cousin Senemon Misawa and his son Katsuzo visited Heizo's home. Heizo learns that Senemon has fallen in love with Katsutoshi, a woman who works at the Yamabukiya Tea House, and has asked her to marry him. Heizo decided to visit Yamabukiya, saying " ...

Ambition Without Honor 2 (1997)

Tetsuya, a young yakuza, returns to his family after his adoptive father is wounded in an attack from a rival gang. In his battle against dishonorable enemies and corrupt yakuza politics, he makes an unlikely ally in a rebel cop. ...

Peanuts (1996)

Two mysterious tough guys infuriate a local gang after helping an elderly grocery store owner with his debts by robbing a yakuza organised gambling den. ...

Ambition Without Honor (1996)

Seventeen year old Tetsuya kills the boss of a rival gang with the promise of being made. After seven years of prison, he discovers that he is all but forgotten by his Family. The two rival Families have reconciled and Tetsuya was been discarded to keep th ...

Onihei's Detective Records (1995)

A criminal syndicate wants detective Onihei dead, but the resolute hero proves to be hard to kill. ...

Another 47 Ronins: Genroku Taiheiki (1995)

In the 14th year of the Genroku period, Asano, the head carpenter of Edo Castle, attacked Kira, the master of ceremonies, with a sword, leading to Asano's forced suicide and Kira's punishment being overlooked. Over a year later in Edo city, Shimohashi Hyog ...

Bored Hatamoto: Letter of Death (1993)

Bored Hatamoto film ...

A Paucity of Flying Dreams (1990)

A man in a hospital starts having a sexual conversation with a woman he cannot see. After that, they keep meeting, and something about her keeps changing. ...

Yakuza Ladies: The Final Battle (1990)

A Yakuza boss's wife and the widow of a rival crime syndicate's murdered leader bond over a common purpose: to seek vengeance. ...

Sensei (1989)

In one of the districts of Tokyo, an old school is planned to be torn down after the summer holidays. The only person who is seriously worried about this is the Japanese language teacher Nakajima. He decides to hold special additional classes for the laggi ...

The Boss' Wife (1988)

The widow of a murdered yakuza boss serves jail time for attacking the man she believes killed her husband. After her release, as she is shadowed by a hitman, she returns to thoughts of revenge. ...

Ooku: Empress of the Tokugawa (1988)

Hana no Asuka-gumi! (1988)

Television drama adaptation of the manga by Satosumi Takaguchi. ...

Ronin on a Mission (1987)

Mori Kojiro, a member of the Akō Ronin, fails to identify Kira Kozukenosuke before their attack and is publicly banished by Ōishi Kuranosuke. Ōishi later apologizes privately, revealing that Kira has a decoy and assigning Mori a secret mission to kill t ...

The Retired Samurai (1987)

Japan's greatest jidaigeki star, Mifune Toshiro is Shogun's Advisor Okubo Hikozaemon who must be coaxed out of retirement to save Shogun Iemitsu from danger. The elderly Hikozaemon has been belittled of late and has seemingly lost the will to live, much le ...

My Beloved Is My Husband's Boss?! (1987)

In Jimpachi Kodera's household, young samurai Keishiro Kanie arrives, captivating Jimpachi's wife, Shoko, despite his initially arrogant demeanor. Keishiro introduces himself while Shoko is cleaning, and she recalls her husband mentioning a visitor, reluct ...

The Forced Marriage with Children (1987)

Kumazou, a "cleaner" for hire, encounters a woman attempting to commit suicide with her two young siblings one night. Kumazou gives them all the money he has and saves them from jumping off a bridge. ...

The Orphaned Geisha (1987)

Geisha Yaeko is approached by a samurai who has just returned to Edo while she is painting a picture of camellia flowers in a temple. The samurai, whom she meets again at a drinking party, is the heir to the castle's daimyo, Yuuki Shinichiro, and the two b ...

Time of the Apes (1987)

A female scientist and two children are accidentally transported into a future dominated by primates. ...

The Eccentric Shinza (1987)

Shinza is known for his stubborn personality and continues to hold a low-ranking position as a magistrate, despite his colleague Kato becoming the deputy chief retainer. His daughter has feelings for Hachiro, one of her father's subordinates, but she is af ...

Countryside Accountant's Government Reform (1987)

Genichiro Okugawa is appointed as the head of accounting in a feudal domain and travels with his servant Gonsuke to the country from Edo. Along the way, they are attacked by masked samurai on a mountain road. Genichiro is saved by Sukezaemon Tsuda, the sup ...

Night Train (1987)

A woman faces betrayal, which tests her love. ...

Detective Kyosuke Kozu's Murder Reasoning 3 (1985)

The third work of the popular series depicting the famous detective Kyosuke Kozu. Blind musician Ryoichi Kashiwagi died of a heart attack. His father, Shigeyuki , is already bedridden and has billions of Japanese yen in assets. Ryoichi's wife Yukiyo and R ...

Assassination Orders (1984)

The ronin, Sako Kanbei has to rescue the beautiful Princess Tsubaki from danger while young samurai of the Numata Clan stand up against their corrupt Chief Retainer and evil clan mistress. Kanbei wants to develop his swordsmanship only for himself, he find ...

A Samurai's Sorrow: The Deadly Sword (1984)

The second installment of the special drama "Kawaiteshimau" features Masakazu Tamura playing the role of "Udege Shujo," the official taster for the shogunate. Tamura's unmatched charm in portraying cynical characters is fully showcased in this exhilarating ...

The Tale of Saikaido (1983)

Set in the Kyushu area of the Edo period. This is a large-length bizarre story that incorporates elements such as mysteries and adventures surrounding hidden gold mines. ...

Odokumiyaku Shushou Kawaite sōrō (1983)

The Shogun's Vault IV: The Gold Mines of Sado (1983)

Account magistrate Wakisaka Bizen Mamoru asks Yoshibei, the chief priest of Iriya and Myohoji Temple to explore the Sado Gold Mine. They suspect that large amounts of money are being diverted to somewhere else. Yoshibei, a former official secret-head accep ...

Ooku Hankachou (1983)

During the reign of Shogun Ienari Tokugawa, heir Takechiyo is found murdered with aconite-coated needles. A missing needle belonging to a palace lady raises suspicion, but she claims innocence. ...

Fangs of Darkness 2: Ieyasu's Head (1983)

Ichibei teams up with Chief Jindayo of the Goomune (Japan's gypsies') in order to steal the shogunate's solid gold statue of Ieyasu which might bankrupt the central government and complete his revenge against the Tokugawa by toppling them from the seat of ...

The Edo Fortune-Teller (1982)

Karasudo, who charges 16 mon for his fortune-telling skill, asks for nothing when it comes to swordplay. His merciless blade is stained with the blood of his enemies when he uncovers a sinister plot and finds that his martial arts skill must be called into ...

Ninja Hunt (1982)

It's a rare occasion when a noted filmmaker like Yamauchi Tetsuya gets to re-visit a previous film, and in this re-make of NINJA GARI, he not only does that, but has created an even better piece. While the original from 1964 starred the great old-time acto ...

Magnitude 7.9 (1980)

A large earthquake hits Tokyo, which was predicted by a seismologist but was ignored. ...

The Fall of Ako Castle (1978)

This is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701-2, the movie tells the tale of the Asano clan's downfall and the revenge of its former samurai on the perpetrator of the catastrophe. Lord Asano was goaded, or tricked, into d ...

Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron (1978)

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. ...

Shogun's Samurai (1978)

Following the death of the second Tokugawa shogun, it is revealed that he was poisoned by retainers of his son Iemitsu in hopes of gaining him the shogunate despite the stammer and birthmark which undermine his respect. Iemitsu and his brother Tadanaga bec ...

I Am A Man of Honor (1977)

The sixth film of the "Truck Yaro" series. Two long-distance truckers, Momojiro and Kinzo, travel around Japan in highly decorated trucks. In Kyushu, Momojiro falls in love again... this time with a beautiful college student Masako. ...

The War in Space (1977)

The year is 1988, and in the midst of recovering from a near-miss with a large comet, Earth finds that there are much worse matters at hand: the sudden arrival of a strange army of aliens and their fleet of unstoppable warships. ...

The Sex Pervert (1977)

A cheerful young man working in fashion photography spies at a woman from his window, with a bigger plan haunting his mind. ...

Hokuriku Proxy War (1977)

A Yakuza group from Osaka with dreams of national dominance moves into the snowy Hokuriku region, sparking a bloody turf war with local gangs. ...

Yakuza Graveyard (1976)

A police investigator cracks down on yakuza business, but once he realizes the police are in negotiations with certain factions, he sides with his own syndicate of choice. ...

Zero Fighter (1976)

Based on the true story of Saburo Sakai, ace pilot in the Pacific War. As he witnesses his comrades die, Sakai must face the ultimate battle for survival over Guadalcanal. ...

New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 3: Last Days of the Boss (1976)

The eighth sequel of the series by the successful "Fukasaku and Bunta" collaboration revolves around the men of a lesser organization that are constantly bullied by the upper organization and "bleed in vain" in gang wars. ...

Violent Panic: The Big Crash (1976)

Takashi, a bank robber, dreams of his final heist and escaping to Brazil... but in his way, stands a woman that loves him, his dead partner's brother, a corrupt cop, a motorcycle gang and every police officer in the Kanto region. ...

Female Ninjas: In Bed with the Enemy (1976)

Female ninjas nudity and sword-weilding action directed by Takayuki Miyagawa is bawdy and thrilling! The female ninjas are sent undercover (sometimes under bed covers) to investigate the disappearance of a gold chest. ...

Operation Plazma in Osaka (1976)

Amidst Japan's postwar economic boom, yakuza factions in Osaka fight for survival when Japan's largest crime syndicate plans a hostile takeover. ...

Deep Throat in Tokyo (1975)

Kumi Taguchi is a model who leaves her boxer boyfriend after he sustains an injury. She meets and quickly marries Hideo, the heir to a corporate empire. Hideo's father, Takehiko, lusts after Kumi. Takehiko sends his son away, ostensibly on a business trip, ...

The Decisive Power of Aikido (1975)

It is about the life of Ueshiba - the founder of aikido. We can see how he decided to develop aikido and how he did it. We can see why he developed aikido and where he has learned martial arts. ...

New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss (1975)

The seventh in the shocking "Jingi Naki Tatakai" movie series, which exposes the true lives of the yakuza that is hidden by a mask of "jingi". The next stage of this continuing drama is the Kanmon Channel where the Owada and the Kyoei groups are battling f ...

G-String Geisha (1975)

A young geisha/prostitute working in Tokyo's entertainment district earns a measure of reknown through her powerful vaginal muscles. This newfound fame, however, also earns her the enmity of a rival geisha house. The two houses choose to settle the dispute ...

Story of a Nymphomaniac (1975)

Natsu, the older of two sisters, has a relationship with Yonosuke, the local kimono trader. Unlike her more conservative sister Oshichi she tries to use sex as a means to climb to a better social position. To even attempt that she first needs to get out of ...

Company Buggers (1975)

Hiroshi, a small-time racketeer, makes a name for himself extorting vulnerable companies and their directors for financial gain. ...

Gambling Den Heist (1975)

After eight years in prison, Takeshi's mission is a big heist from his own clan's gambling parlor. ...

Cops vs. Thugs (1975)

When a lucrative waterfront development becomes available, the Kawade gang quickly use their political connections to secure the land. However, the acting boss of the Ohara gang also has his eyes on the property and recruits crooked detective Tokumatsu Kun ...

Graveyard of Honor (1975)

A self-destructive man becomes a powerful member of the yakuza but quickly loses his self-control. Based on the true story of Rikio Ishikawa. ...

New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1 (1974)

Bunta Sugawara is Miyoshi, a low-level assassin of the Yamamori gang who is sent to jail after a bungled hit. While in stir, family member Aoki attempts to seize power from the boss, and Miyoshi finds himself stuck between the two factions with no honorabl ...

The Street Fighter's Last Revenge (1974)

Terry Sugury is hired to recover one of two tapes containing a formula for making heroin for a price of 200 dollars a pound. But he gets double crossed. So he wants the tape back. ...

Budô dokyumento: Kengô no saiten (1974)

The documentary covers notable Japanese martial arts from Okinawa Karate to Ninjutsu, Kendo, Shorinji Kenpo, sword fighting techniques, and even firearms. Various martial arts masters, from Shorinji Kenpo founder Doshin So to Japan Karate Association's Mas ...

Military Comfort Woman (1974)

Movie based on a book by Kakou Senda about the use of women as sexual slaves by the Japanese Army during WW2. ...

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode (1974)

While Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political party, whose two executives stir up new tensions in their thirst for power. ...

Return of the Street Fighter (1974)

Martial artist Takuma Tsurugi returns to take on a Yakuza family that may be embezzling money from charities to finance their own operations. Both the police and the Yakuza find themselves battling Tsurugi, but Tsurugi's fight ultimately is with the mob, a ...

A Blood Stained Love Affair (1974)

Emika has been raised by her aunt Ineko, who runs a high-class club in Akasaka. Ineko is backed by Ohashi, a political mastermind, but at the same time, she gives money to Riki, a young aspiring photographer, and has a relationship with him. Riki gets to k ...

The Street Fighter (1974)

Takuma Tsurugi takes on the government, the police, the mafia and an international ring of kidnappers who aim to dispossess a beautiful young heiress of her millions. ...

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics (1974)

As Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, under pressure from the public and the press, adding a new dimension in the war for power among the yakuza families of Hiroshima. ...

Yokosuka Navy Prison (1973)

When a rebellious roughneck enlists in the Navy and goes on a rampage against his superiors, he is sent to the Yokosuka Naval Prison. ...

Bodyguard Kiba 2 (1973)

Kiba is back again, but this time he has fallen from grace and sent to prison for all the violent acts he has committed. Once he's out, he begins working as a bodyguard in a club that is crawling with gangsters. ...

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War (1973)

Shozo Hirono has managed to separate from the Yamamori family and create his own small family, and extend his circle of acquaintances. These new friendships include a powerful underboss of the Muraoka family, Noboru Uchimoto. ...

The Incident at Takanodai (1973)

The Bodyguard (1973)

Karate master and anti-drug vigilante Chiba returns to his home in Japan, where he holds a press conference announcing his intention to wipe out the nation's drug industry. He also offers his services as a bodyguard to anyone who is willing to come forward ...

The Pleasures of a Motel (1973)

Pinku from 1973. ...

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima (1973)

Repeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally finds a home as a Muraoka family hitman and falls in love with boss Muraoka's niece. Meanwhile, the ambitions of mad dog Katsutoshi Otomo draws our series' hero, S ...

A Woman’s Road (1973)

Poor Yoko knows she is getting played and used by a playboy, but she loves him with all her heart and soul. ...

The School Deviate Waru (1973)

Yoji Himuro (Hayato Tani) is a ruthless bully terrorizing the classroom with his buffoons. New teachers (Kunie Tanaka and Mari Atsumi) get assigned to tame him down, but they fail miserably. Yoji continues his no-respect rampage until the school principal ...

Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973)

In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza. ...

The Horrible Obsessions (1972)

Detective Kikuchi is sent to Okinawa to investigate why a girl jumped from a window after shooting heroin. There, he encounters the usual assortment of addicts, dealers, pimps and sleazy American GIs. ...

Outlaw Killers: Three Mad Dog Brothers (1972)

The great Bunta stars as a gangster who is sent to jail for the sake of his gang, but when he's released he finds everything completely changed and his gang has swept him aside for being too violent. ...

Wandering Ginza Butterfly: She-Cat Gambler (1972)

Meiko Kaji reprises her role as Nami, a vengeful female gang leader, in the second installment of this high-action series that casts a new actor -- martial arts legend Sonny Chiba -- in the role of Nami's loyal friend Ryuji. This time around, Nami is looki ...

Kogarashi Monjiro 2: Secret of Monjiro's Birth (1972)

Monjiro, reunited with his long lost sister, is pursued by a yakuza gang because he killed their boss. He also meets a fellow gambler who idolizes Monjiro. The gambler and Monjiro's sister are pulled into a conspiracy to get to Monjiro, but do things go as ...

A Narcotics Agent's Ballad (1972)

Undercover cop Kikuchi teams up with the Okinawa local police to clean up the narcotics and prostitution underworld. ...

Girl Boss Guerilla (1972)

Sachiko is the leader of a girl gang from Shinjuku who wind up in Kyoto and make a bid to take over the local girl gangs there. ...

Street Mobster (1972)

After serving time, a defiant street thug is incensed to find his town overrun by two yakuza factions. He gathers his crew and takes them on. ...

Wandering Ginza Butterfly (1972)

Gang leader Nami (cult film legend Meiko Kaji) kills a member of a yakuza group and goes away to prison. Upon her release three years later, she's a shamed woman confined to living in the shadowy world of sex clubs and street gangs. She returns to the city ...

Sex Up and Down (1972)

A con man sets up a consulting firm where he poses as a doctor specializing in curing people of their sexual problems and hang-ups. ...

Yakuza Wolf: I Perform Murder (1972)

A fearless man confronts a yakuza organization pushing the envelope of extravagant & all sorts of violence. ...

Kanto Street Peddlers: Shallow Clan Honor (1971)

The fifth and final chapter of the Kanto Street Peddlers series! Will the battle in Asakusa be enough for a complete victory? ...

Trials of an Okinawa Village (1971)

A boss from a trucking company has run-ins with evil yakuza during the American occupation of Okinawa. Her hometown is threatened by usurers, gangsters and indirectly by American GI influences. She must battle a yakuza organization with her employees to he ...

Troops of Darkness (1971)

A disgraced yakuza member, framed for the murder of his boss, emerges from prison eight years later with revenge on his mind. ...

The Gambling Nun (1971)

A young woman, an experienced gambler, enters a nunnery to atone for some of her father's crimes. When the nunnery runs into debt, she resorts to gambling and challenges the racketeer threatening to sell the place to a game. ...

Story of Japanese Bad Men (1971)

Toei yakuza film. ...

Sex Comedy, Quick on the Trigger (1971)

Comedy about a car salesman who invents a condom against premature ejaculation. ...

Delinquent Girl Boss: Worthless to Confess (1971)

Reiko Oshida stars as a young wannabe gangster tough girl, just released from reform school. She tracks down one of her classmates fathers, who runs an auto repair shop that the local Yakuza are trying to force out of business and take over, and starts wor ...

The Sucker's Blunt Dagger (1971)

A man aspires to be a big boss but falls in love with a beautiful woman boss. ...

Delinquent Girl Boss: Ballad of Yokohama Hoods (1971)

The local yakuza gangs dominating the port of Yokohama do not take well the invasion of their territory by a daring biker gang, led by a girl in black leather outfit and cowboy hat - reminiscent of the earlier war victors. Old and new grudges lead the two ...

Wicked Priest 5: Breaking The Commandments (1971)

As the Killer Priest Shinkai travels around Japan during the Meiji era, he comes to the aid of a village headman fighting corruption from up above. Before he can do anything for the townspeople, he must first face his nemesis, Whipmaster, the blind Priest, ...

Fate Deals the Card of Death (1971)

Seijiro and Shizue meet in Niigata and fall in love. Seijiro has to go back to Tokyo soon after, and they promise each other to meet again a year later. However, Seijiro gets jailed for five years. Unable to find him, Shizue gets married to a yakuza boss w ...

Thugs of Shinjuku (1970)

Fresh out of jail, a smart-mouth wise guy Goro takes the name "Big Brother Katsumata." Not fitting in well with established gangs, he forms a rag-tag gang called "the Shinjuku Brothers." The members of their gang are thugs who only wish they were tradition ...

Delinquent Girl Boss: Tokyo Drifters (1970)

After helping a pregnant girl escape from their reform school and facing the resulting punishment, a clique of delinquent girls eventually reunites a year later in Tokyo to face different challenges in the form of yakuza and… street vendors. ...

The Silk Hat Boss 2 (1970)

The Silk Hat Boss becomes involved in a car imports business during his trip to Atami. ...

The Last Kamikaze (1970)

With World War II is coming to its end and Japan nearing defeat, Japanese military leaders step up suicide attacks on Allied ships. Toei legend Koji Tsuruta stars as a Kamikaze squad leader who has second thoughts about suicide runs. He becomes torn betwee ...

Delinquent Girl Boss: Blossoming Night Dreams (1970)

Rika is released from girls detention school and then winds up at a lounge bar where she finds her other classmates working. This lounge bar is run by Junko Miyazono. ...

A Wad of Notes (1970)

A lone gambler tries to keep a yakuza family from taking over a festival in Kitakyushu. After away from his hometown for 13 years, Ryuji comes back and saves the town that is becoming run-down from yakuza's ill deeds. ...

Gambler's Code - Loyalty Offering (1970)

A fairly entertaining yarn told in somewhat broad strokes with Wakayama playing against type as a reformed-gambler-turned- Christian minister. Of course, before the tale is finished he is forced by the utterly nefarious, heinous villains to once again pick ...

Fear of Sex (1970)

Silk Hat Boss (1970)

In a strange outfit and full of youthful energy, the explosive Boss Kumatora raises hell like there's no tomorrow. The first movie of a new series starring Wakayama Tomisaburo as everybody's favorite character Boss Kumatora from the Red Peony Gambler serie ...

The Japan Derby Race (1970)

A story about a man who stakes his life on horse racing. ...

House of Gamblers (1970)

Ken Takakura stars as Ryoji one of the Aramasa family's loyal lieutenants whao takes the burden of his family being insulted by the Tanuma's family goons, by retaliating on his own. After injuring the head of Tanuma's family, and slaying others along the w ...

Wicked Priest 4: The Killer Priest Comes Back (1970)

In Meiji Period Japan, the carrying of swords had been outlawed, so Shikai, the Killer Priest carries his sword disguised as a Priest?s staff. One of the strongest entries in the series, Shinkai is badly injured, and must face his worst enemy in what could ...

The Final Gamble (1970)

Gambler's Legacy (1969)

A yakuza member embarks on a trail of revenge for his murdered boss. Senzo, the successor of the Mita Family, searches for the man bearing a tattoo of a dragon who is said to be responsible for the death of their former leader. ...

The Fort of Death (1969)

The second Bounty Hunter film, when master killer Shikoro Ichibei takes up the cause of a group of farmers being driven to despair by the vile Lord Ozeki. The villainous lord has driven them to mounting their last stand at a deserted fort against an army o ...

The Green Slime (1968)

A giant asteroid is heading toward Earth so some astronauts disembark from a nearby space station to blow it up. The mission is successful, and they return to the station unknowingly bringing back a gooey green substance that mutates into one-eyed tentacle ...

Ohyaku: The Female Demon (1968)

Ohyaku is a grifter who falls in love with a thief, who recruits her for his plan to rob a shipment of government gold. When this plan goes wrong and Ohyaku ends up in prison, she resolves to do anything to escape and claim revenge on the ones who betraye ...

Gamblers: The Raid (1968)

5th entry in the Bakuchi-uchi series. ...

Big Time Gambling Boss (1968)

Tokyo, 1934. The boss of the clan that controls gambling agonizes and some of his followers propose to Nakai to take his place, but he refuses the offer. ...

Heiji, the Detective (1967)

Famous for his coin tossing when capturing criminals, an Edo detective, Heiji, launches an investigation into the mysterious murder of his friend Seigoro. ...

Samurai Wolf II (1967)

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 do ...

Gamblers: The Dragon Tattoo (1967)

The second part of the Gamblers series. ...

Gamblers (1967)

Tsuruta is a respected tattoo artist working with comrades Machida and Yamashiro. His former boss, who also just happens to be the master who had tattooed the magnificent dragon on Tsuruta's back, is now a dissolute, bitter drunk living with his son in law ...

Three Gamblers (1967)

Three closely associated gamblers have adventures in Yokohama, Hokkaido, and Macao. Gambling trio endure hardships to rescue Naojiro's family. ...

Samurai Wolf (1966)

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 sc ...

Seven Fugitives (1966)

Sazen Tange and The Secret of the Urn (1966)

Loyal samurai Samanosuke is attacked, mutilated, and left for dead while carrying out a mission for his clan. He recovers but has lost an eye and an arm. Taking a new identity as Tange Sazen, he searches for a stolen urn which has hidden significance to hi ...

The Magic Serpent (1966)

In ancient Japan, a good lord is killed and his throne is taken by the trecherous Yuki Daijo and the evil wizard Orochi-Maru. The lords young son Ikazuki-maru is rescued from the jaws of death by a magic bird sent by a wizard. Fourteen years later, Prince ...

Yakuza G-Men (1965)

34th year of Meiji (1901). Japanese gangster Shuntaro Hibiki is forced to work for the police to find out who robbed a truck full of gold. ...

Sword of the Beast (1965)

Legendary swordplay filmmaker Hideo Gosha's Sword of the Beast chronicles the flight of the low-level swordsman Gennosuke, who kills one of his ministers as part of a reform plot. His former comrades then turn on him, and this betrayal so shakes his sense ...

The Third Contest (1965)

Mondonosuke, a young sword student, has a bad dream about his sensei being killed in a duel.Consequently, he quickly returns to his sensei's dojo in Edo, where he has not set foot in three years. ...

Tale of Ninja Duty (1965)

Mumyo Tsunataro killed his betrayed fiance Orie and He flees to Utsunomiya. On his way he happens to saves Chisaka Hyobu's daughter Oyu (She is exactly like Orie) be attacked by ninja. Thus he stays Chisaka's residence in Yonezawa. Chisaka was just trying ...

Hoodlum Match (1965)

A good set-in-per-WW2 ninkyô type film with outstanding performances. ...

The Ninja Hunt (1964)

Four ninja are hired to fight against the Shogunate's plot to abolish the Gamo Clan, the regional barons struggling to reinstate their young heir Tanemaru as their Lord. ...

Group Burglars Break the Magistrate's Office (1964)

Eight villains, former pirates, gather to attack the magistrate's office. They develop a plan and begin their actions in secret, making full use of their special abilities. In the end, their plan goes beyond what was intended and turns into a good deed for ...

Gambler (1964)

The main character Tachibana Isaburo is released from prison and discovers that his boss is dead. He is offered to become the leader of the group, but refuses. A young fashion villain, a Yakuza boss wants to get into politics. He makes a deal with the Osak ...

Blind Monk Swordsman (1964)

This is the story of a bad man who re-discovering humanity via woman and child while clashing with the yakuza and being hunted by a man called "Death" who has his own dark past. The prototype for the later two yakuza priest series with Shintaro Katsu and T ...

Three Outlaw Samurai (1964)

Shiba, a wandering ronin, encounters a band of peasants who have kidnapped the daughter of their dictatorial magistrate, in hopes of coercing from him a reduction in taxes. Shiba takes up their fight, joined by two renegades from the magistrate's guard, Sa ...

Edo Crime Book: Black Claws (1964)

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Blind Wolf (1963)

Detective Kyosuke Kozu's Murder Reasoning II (1985)

Reportage writer Kenzo has made an interview appointment with Morishima, the mastermind behind the political and business world. On that day, Morishima is killed and a 200 million yen diamond is stolen. The diamond was brought by jeweler Kuhara to sell to ...