Action, Drama
Hanzo extracts a confession from a ghost using his assaulting methods, foils thieves, connects with Heisuke Takei a friend from his youth, offers protection to a forward-thinking physician Genan Sugino who has defamed his ruler, discovers a pleasure ring of young wives and a blind music teacher, and cuckolds a corrupt official under his very nose.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
The Fort of Death
Samurai Fiction
Ran
Sanjuro
The Sea Is Watching
Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons
Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell
Hanzo the Razor: The Snare
New Tale of Zatoichi
Zatoichi the Fugitive
Zatoichi on the Road
Banzuiin Chōbei
Bounty Hunter Muyonosuke
Choice
Seppuku: The Sun Goes Down
ICHI
The Sword of Doom
SIMILAR MOVIES
The Fort of Death
IMDB 6.6 | Dec , 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 of attackers. Wakayama Tomisaburo is superb as an expert in killing and military tactics, who leaves his medical practice at a clinic for the poor in order to counter the vicious tactics of that vile lord.Samurai Fiction
IMDB 6.7 | Oct , 1998
A warrior-in-training and his bumbling friends go in pursuit of a stolen sword.Ran
IMDB 8 | Jun , 1985
Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an aging warlord divides his kingdom between his three sons.Sanjuro
IMDB 8 | Jan , 1962
Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed "Sanjuro." In this companion piece and sequel to "Yojimbo," jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an idealistic group of young warriors weed out their clan's evil influences, and in the process turns their image of a proper samurai on its ear.The Sea Is Watching
IMDB 5.7 | Jul , 2002
O-Shin is a young brothel worker who, one night, helps a young samurai escape from his pursuers. Against the warnings of her fellow workers, particularly Kikuno and the brothel's owner, O-Shin falls in love with the samurai.Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance
IMDB 7.4 | Jan , 1972
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.Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades
IMDB 7.1 | Sep , 1972
Ogami Itto volunteers to be tortured by Yakuza in order to save a prostitute and is hired by their leader to kill an evil chamberlain.Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril
IMDB 7.3 | Dec , 1972
Ogami Itto is hired to kill a tattooed female assassin and battles Retsudo, head of the Yagyu clan, and his son Gunbei.Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons
IMDB 7.3 | Aug , 1973
Ogami Itto is challenged by a quintet of warriors, each armed with one fifth of Ogami's assassin fee and one fifth of the information he needs to complete his assignment.Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell
IMDB 7.1 | Apr , 1974
With most of his family already dead at Ogami Itto's hands, Retsudo launches one final plot to destroy him, and when that fails, unleashes the fury of every remaining member of the Yagyu clan.Hanzo the Razor: The Snare
IMDB 6.2 | Aug , 1973
Against the backdrop of the Edo treasury devaluing currency and driving many into poverty, Hanzo Itami enforces the law without regard to status. He shows inadequate respect to the treasurer, who wants him dead.New Tale of Zatoichi
IMDB 6.9 | Mar , 1963
Wishing to find peace, Zatoichi travels to his old village but only finds trouble when he ends up in a love triangle and finds old scores have followed him home.Zatoichi the Fugitive
IMDB 6.9 | Aug , 1963
After arriving in the town of Shimonita, Ichi finds that a price has been put on his head by a local yakuza boss. He's drawn into a trap, but after hearing of the slaying of a former love, Ichi furiously fights his way through the entire clan to face the killer, a hired ronin.Zatoichi on the Road
IMDB 6.9 | Nov , 1963
Zatoichi is sworn to protect the life of a young girl and without any real allies finds himself in the middle of a bloody turf war.Banzuiin Chōbei
IMDB 0 | May , 1940
A jidaigeki film on Banzuiin Chōbei produced in 1940 and directed by Yasuki Chiba.Bounty Hunter Muyonosuke
IMDB 0 | Oct , 1990
Takahashi Hideki stars as Muyonosuke, the one-eyed ronin who makes his living as a bounty hunter who is on a never-ending quest to find the man who murdered his father. The usually aloof Muyonosuke, who never would pause to help the common man winds up befriending an orphan boy and a mysterious woman, and getting involved in a feud between two families, but finds out there is a high power behind the curtain who pulls their strings.Choice
IMDB 6.8 | Sep , 2011
A depressed actress battling suicidal thoughts is visited by choice incarnate and given a simple yet timeless ultimatum, live or die. "Choice" is an inspirational film meant to remind people that even though there are no guarantees in life, its still worth the risk.Seppuku: The Sun Goes Down
IMDB 0 | Dec , 2024
Kakizaki Yuji’s period film is not like the jidaigeki films we are used to. While it deals with themes of seppuku, duty, and loyalty to one’s masters and the shogun, we see very little in terms of action. Instead, the film focuses on the inner thoughts and struggles of the protagonist—who is ordered to perform a ritual suicide—his wife, and their entire household, all leading up to the final moment.ICHI
IMDB 6.8 | Oct , 2008
Ichi is a blind entertainer that travels the countryside with her traditional Japanese guitar and walking stick. She’s in search for the kind man that brought her up as a child, but because of her beauty she encounters problems every step of the way. Fortunately for Ichi, she is also a gifted swordswoman and carries a lethal blade within her walking stick.The Sword of Doom
IMDB 7.7 | Feb , 1966
Ryunosuke, a gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate rule, has no moral code and kills without remorse. It’s a way of life that leads to madness.