Ryūtarō Gomi

17. yüzyıl Japonya'sında savaş yılları geride kalınca samuraylar da işsiz kalmıştır. Monarşik düzenin öğüttüğü Ronin'ler, barış zamanında birer posa olarak görülmekte ve birer birer harakiri yapmaktadırlar. Hatta açlık yüzünden onurlarından bile vazgeçip, otorite sahiplerinden para istemekte ve aksi taktirde kapılarının önünde harakiri yapmakla tehdit etmektedirler. Böyle bir ortamda yine eski bir samuray olan Hanshiro, yerel bir lordun huzuruna çıkar ve seppuku töreni için izin ister.

Official Shogunate executioner Ogami Itto has been framed for disloyalty to the Shogunate by the Yagyu clan, against whom he now is waging a one-man war, along with his infant son, Daigoro.

Bir çete üyesi tarafından yaralanan Zatoichi genç bir kadın tarafından bakılır ve sağlığına kavuşur. Köye borç ödemek için gelmiştir ama şimdi kendini daha da borçlu hissetmektedir. Genç kadının babası nehirde taşımacılık hizmeti verirken Zatoichi'yi yaralayan çetenin tehdidi altındadır. Zatoichi ona yardım etmek için kılıcını ve ustalığını bu meseleyi çözmeye adar.

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

Zatoichi Yakuza elebaşına borcu olan bir genci öldürmeye zorlanır. Hemen ardından gencin ablası borcu kapatmak için fuhuştan kazandığı parayı getirir. Borç ödenmiş olmasına rağmen elebaşı gerçek niyetini ortaya koyar ve Zatoichi neden olduğu haksızlığın vicdan azabıyla kızı korumaya çalışır.

Zatoichi bir yandan intikam peşindeki öfkeli yakuza ve onun kana susamış akrabalarını savuştururken bir yandan da hasta bir çocuğu korumaya çalışmaktadır. Bu arada tehlikeli bir satranç oyuncusuyla arkadaş olur. Öte yandan zardaki şansı da dönecektir.

Kahramanımız Zatoichi uzak bir adaya doğru yolculuğa çıkar ve toplamda 88 Şinto tapınağına doğru hacca başlar.

Gizli bir örgütün kör lideri tarafından yönlendirilen Zatoichi Yakuza ve kıskanç bir kocayla yarışıyor

Zatoichi çetelerin istila ettiği Tonda kasabasına gelir. Burda kendi teknikleriyle kumar oynar ve kazanır. Elbette çete üyeleri onu öldürmek ister ve macera başlar.

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 back. But he makes the fatal mistake of hosting a 100 Ghost Stories ceremony without the closing cleansing ritual, opening the door for the Yokai Monsters to punish the wicked.

[Period covered: 1616] On May 8th, 1615 the summer campaign of Osaka has reached the climax. This film takes place immediately following 'Ninja 4: Mist Saizo, Last of The Ninja'. Staying one step ahead of the Shogun’s forces, “Mist” Saizo tries to save the Sanada Clan, and avenge the death of his lord by assassinating the first Tokugawa Shogun. Following the first four films in this remarkable series, more previously unknown Ninja skills are shown to the world for the first time. The action heats up as Saizo single-handedly attacks the Shogun’s Palace!

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 very vulnerable oddity in consequence. He takes the blame for the misdeeds of others, with the understanding that he will be exiled for one year and restored to the clan's good graces after the political situation dies down. As betrayal begins to heap upon betrayal, he realizes he'll have to live out his life as a ronin, if not hunted down and killed.

[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 overthrow him. It was the beginning of the Sengoku (Warring States) period. Three men attack a gunpowder maker in a farmhouse, the first chopping off his arm with his sickle-&-chain weapon, the second blinding him with sword, the third giving the killing blow. His son Kojiro Kosume escapes the attackers as everything he has known up to then explodes into conflagration. He grows up & enters the start of the Tokugawa Era, intent on avenging his father.

Film directed by Kenji Misumi

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 vile Lord Kira.

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

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, and a vicious killer. Bloody violence erupts whenever strangers approach the temple. Can the traveling priest bring his belief in the Buddha and rid the three temple residents of the devils that hold their souls?

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 gambling, opens his own gambling den in direct defiance of the local yakuza boss. Exciting action and a twisty plot this movie breaks new barriers in Japanese cinema. Katsu Shintaro is superb in one of his better non-Zato Ichi roles as he fights off the advances of a love-lorn woman and risks his life to defeat the powerful gambling boss who has a stranglehold on the town.

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 heard of. The lawyers haven't located Shunsaku yet, allowing Otone to think about whether she accepts the conditions of the will. One month later after, Takato Shunsaku is found. Murdered. At the birthday party of Otone's uncle. With Shunsaku dead and thus making it impossible for Otone to marry him, the inheritence is to split amongst all (living) family members. And yes, as always, that means that the potential successors get killed off one by one. But Kosuke Kindaichi is on the trail...

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 threatens to bankrupt the government of Japan. Despite a desperate search the gold has not been found, causing officials of the Tokugawa bakufu to call on their most skillful secret agent, Shikoro Ichibei.

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 the old man's pupil. Soon, Hanpei's skill of sword comes to attention of his lord. The lord orders him to assassinate a man...

[Period covered: 1616] Kirigakure Saizo returns for the final time as he sets out to assassinate Tokugawa Ieyasu in order to avenge the death of Lord Sanada Yukimura. But first he must contend with Ieyasu’s own ninja group led by the powerful Fuma Daijuro, who has a score to settle with the men of Iga that dates back 280 years to the war between the Genji and the Heike at the Battle of Dan-no-Ura. Tremendous fighting and great plot twists highlight this exceptional look into the lives of the mysterious ninja of Japan.

Isazo is a traveling gambler and living legend in the world of yakuza, known for his swordsmanship and bravery, his impeccable manners, and his brilliant talent in gambling. One late fall at an inn in Kiso Fukushima, Isazo befriends a young boy whose mother turns out to be his old love Yoshino, with whom he was not unable to consummate a marriage due to the class differences between them.

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

Hasegawa is a chief police of big heart who leads a band of samurai police and cultivates reformed criminals as informants to solve difficult crimes.

A shikakenin was an under-the-cover trade that undertook killing in Edo. Hanemon of Otowa, an agency that introduced laborers and maids, was also one of these. Katsugoro Iseya was a timber dealer who had come in as a client. His target was the constructions magistrate Hanno, and the Tatsumiya who sipped on the benefits. Hanemon who had a stong code towards killing, where he would only kill those who do no good to be in the world, accepts this request. Baian Fujieda, a needle doctor would carry out the killing. However, the professional killer Baian fails to bring down Tatsumiya. Hanemon then looks to another shikakenin, the ronin Sanai Nishimura for the role. Although Sanai's ability with the sword is good, he lives poorly in a tenement, and accepts this commission on the condition that it is kept a secret from his wife and child. Here, they close in on Hanno and Tatsumiya again...