Zatoichi
Older, wiser but still a wandering loner, the blind, peace-loving masseur Ichi seeks a peaceful life in a rural village. When he's caught in the middle of a power struggle between two rival Yakuza clans, his reputation as a deadly defender of the innocent is put to the ultimate test in a series of sword-slashing showdowns.
Nagai sanpo
A lonely retired girl's High School Principal who's lost his wife to alcoholism moves to an old apartment in a country town. There he forms a relationship with a neglected little neighborhood girl.
O-Roshiya-koku suimu-tan
Sumptuous filming of the journey of a shipwrecked Japanese expedition from the Pacific Ocean across Siberia to the court of Catherine the Great of Russia. A Russo-Japanese co-production of a unique event in history which was the hit of Cannes and other film festivals but did not receive wide distribution despite its huge scope, high production values, and very human story of culture clash.
The Hidden Blade
Set in 19th Century Japan a young samurai who finds himself in love with a farm girl leaves his home to begin a new life. He has to take stock of his new life when he is put to the test and ordered to kill a traitor who just happens to be his dearest friend.
The Wicked
A selfish playboy uses rich women to pay off his debts. Divorcing his wife and marrying the woman he loves throws him into a spiral of destruction.
Samurai Banners
Kansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea. He enters the service of Takeda, the lord of Kai domain. He convinces Takeda to kill the lord of neighboring Suwa and take his wife as a concubine. He then convinces the widow, Princess Yu, to accept this arrangement and to bear Takeda a son. He pledges them his life. He then spends years using treachery, poetic sensibility, military and political strategy to expand Takeda's realm, advance the claim of Yu's son as the heir, and prepare for an ultimate battle with the forces of Echigo. Has Kansuke overreached? Are his dreams, blinded by love, too big?
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Shintarô Katsu
Director
Fumihiko Tachiki
as
Kanako Higuchi
as
Boss Han Bosatsu
Ken Ogata
as
Rônin / Masterless samurai
Rikiya Yasuoka
as
Yôjinbô / Bodyguard
Eiji Okuda
Director
Masahiko Tsugawa
as
Kiwako Harada
as
Saki Takaoka
as
Sachi's mother
Yûji Ueda
as
Oleg Yankovskiy
as
Kirill Gustavovich Laksman
Takuzô Kawatani
as
Koichi
Takashi Sasano
as
Jun Maeda
as
Hidetaka Yoshioka
as
Samon Shimada
Yoshio Inaba
as
Keiko Matsuzaka
as
Takako, fashion designer
Toshirô Mifune
as
Kansuke Yamamoto
Masakazu Tamura
as
Nobushige Takeda
Yoshiko Sakuma
as
Princess Yufu
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