Yoshitaka Ito

Le lac Yokumo, qui abrite le domaine de Majin, est au coeur de deux régions florissantes, placées sous l'autorité du seigneur Chigusa. Les pauvres qui vivent dans les montagnes environnantes tentent de fuir la misère et leur cruel souverain, Mikoshiba, pour se rendre sur les rives du lac. Ne pouvant les retenir et jalousant la prospérité de son voisin, Mikoshiba le fait tuer et s'approprie ses terres. Il va jusqu'à détruire la statue de Majin, dans son sanctuaire lacustre.

In the book of the world's greatest rogues, the number one man can only be one person.

Ronin samurai Ibuki-san enters a town and sells his skills to the warring families. He falls in love with the beautiful horse stable owner but like all heroes, cannot stay.

Fifth film in the series. When Kyoshiro, in a moment of weakness, saves the life of a woman being attacked on the road, he quickly finds himself entangled in a conspiracy involving a corrupt chamberlain, a wily merchant, the survivors of a pirate gang, and a missing treasure trove.

Hanpei est un petit vassal élevé par un père adoptif. Depuis son enfance, la rumeur dit qu'il est le rejeton d’un chien et d’une suivante. Jardinier de son état, c’est aussi un coureur prodigieux capable de rattraper des chevaux lancés au galop. Un jour, Kikuba, grand vassal du château, remarque que Hanpei a également des talents de bretteur hors pair. Il va alors en faire son homme de main pour éliminer les comploteurs qui tentent en secret de renverser le suzerain, atteint de folie. Devenu assassin de sang-froid "pour sauver son maître", Hanpei ira au bout de son Destin.

Set up to be the patsy by a rival gang, Furuta Makoto attacks the yakuza boss he thinks is responsible for his father’s murder. He then learns it was all a plot to take over his father’s turf and he seeks vengeance against the puppet master behind the entire conspiracy. His quest for justice leads him to prison where he must fend off the attack of a master assassin before he can make his escape and go after the true killer!

Raizô Ichikawa reprises his role as the restaurant-cook-turned-contract-killer in this sequel to Kazuo Mori's stylish 1967 thriller A Certain Killer.

Enfant, O'Kin est gravement blessée et défigurée par le Seigneur Daizen-dayu qui cherche à mettre la main sur un sabre légendaire détenu par la famille de la jeune file. Devenue adulte et épéiste de talent, O'Kin va recroiser la route de Daizen-dayu...

About 1786 the doings of a demented lord results in many masterless samurai, including Iyemon (Kei Sato) who is used to luxury and cannot adjust to the hand-to-mouth conditions & piecework of umbrella making. Having hired ruffians to make him look like a superior swordsman, he arranges for himself the opportunity of a profitable marriage. He hires the half-blind masseur Takuetsu (Sawamura Sounosuke) to seduce or rape his wife (Kyoko Mikage), so that she can be divorced or killed for adultery. But the masseur takes pity & informs Oiwa of her husband's horrid plot. Assisted by the merchant's daughter he intends to marry, Iyemon disfigures his wife attempting to poison her so he can marry higher. There's a lovingly gruesome sequence as she combs blad patches into her hair, kneeling deformed at her mirror, weeping with bitterness. She eventually cuts her own throat, swearing revenge.

Monjiro was born into a poor farm family in Mikazuki Village, Nitta County, Ueshu, and abandoned his hometown when he was 10 years old. He has been traveling aimlessly with a long toothpick in his mouth. Monjiro avoided getting involved in anything, but wherever he went, he ended up getting involved in incidents