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Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo 1970 With a price on his head, Ichi seeks tranquillity in a favorite village Since his last visit, it has fallen prey to Boss Masagoro, the son of a merchant rumored to have stolen gold from the shogunate The boss has hired Yojimbo as his hard drinking enforcer, but Yojimbo is

The Tale of Zatoichi Continues 1962 Blind swordsmanmasseur Zatoichi is pursued by the retainers of a lord who fear that he will reveal a secret weakness of their master Returning to the village where a year before he had killed Hirate, a much admired opponent, Zatoichi encounters another swordsman a

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 childs aunt, who is about to be forced into prostitution for want of a payment the dead

The Demon of Mount Oe 1960 A team of samurai warriors team up to defeat a shape changing, supernatural creature

Nichiren to moko daishurai 1958 Legendary Buddhist monk Nichiren Kazuo Hasegawa returns from his studies to lead Japan out of moral crisis and prepare to fight the Mongol invaders during the 1200s by creating a new form of Buddhism He runs afoul of the existing Buddhist sects and their government su

Yakuza Masterpiece 1970 A yakuza members half sister means much more to him in a film that repeatedly depicts realities other than what normal societal rules allow The overly protective and loving brother however, soon has to contend with his sister falling for and dating her school teacher, but the

The Man Without a Map (1968) A private detective is hired to find a missing man by his wife. Contradictory evidence and the lack of clues soon render the case as virtually unsolvable, as the detective grows more and more frustrated.

Jirôchô Fuji (1959) An all-star cast from Daiei Film Company has made "the ultimate Jirocho movie" about the legendary yakuza Shimizu no Jirocho, the biggest Boss in the Tokaido area.

Zatoichi (1989) Nearing the village of his sensei, Zatoichi decides to pay the teacher a visit, only to learn that he has been murdered and his daughter forced into prostitution. Ichi's investigation into these injustices uncovers a corrupt alliance between government officials and criminals, puttin