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Onihei Gaiden - Promise in the Shadows · 2013Onihei Gaiden - Promise in the Shadows
★ 8.02013
MovieDrama
Ex-bandit Komakichi has a random encounter with an ex-ally, Matsuzou. Seeing each other for the first time in 35 years, the two drink and talk about their past, without revealing their current lifestyles, Matsuzou then recounts an odd story... The doomed reunion slowly steers the old bandits toward a life-changing event.
The Abe Clan · 1995The Abe Clan
★ 7.81995
MovieHistoryDrama
A Choice between Loyalty or Duty of the Samurai! Can the heartlessness of society crush the honor of an individual? In the spring of the 18th year of Kanei, Hosokawa Tadatoshi, feudal lord of the Higo area, died. Although Tadatoshi forbade his vassals to follow him in death before he died, they still committed seppuku one after the other. The new feudal lord, Mitsunao, Tadatoshi's son, also gave the order forbidding seppuku. Abe Yaichiemon obeyed his former lord's last wish but is now being called a coward by his comrades and finally decided to follow Tadatoshi in death in order to save his family's honor. Mitsunao, upset by Yaichiemon actions, punished the Abe family unfairly. Objected to this, the Abe family shut themselves up in their manor as the lords troops moved in. This is the true story of what happened within the Hosokawa clan in early Edo era.
Sure Death! 3 · 1986Sure Death! 3
★ 7.01986
MovieActionDrama
Third movie in the Hissatsu (Sure Death!) Series. Chasing the killer of a lawman, a group of assassins fall foul of a group of blackmarket financiers who dispatch their own hitmen to dispose of them.
Sure Death 4 · 1987Sure Death 4
★ 7.01987
MovieDrama
Having been demoted for failing to prevent the murder of one of his superiors, Mondo is startled by a group of masked thugs who are soon attacked in turn by an unseen force. He begins to suspect the work of assassins, but whose side are they on?
Sure Death! Brown, You Bounder! · 1985Sure Death! Brown, You Bounder!
★ 7.01985
MovieDramaCrime
When the Shogunates greatest secret is stolen, the fate of the nation hangs in the balance. The Shogunate sends an incompetent cop, Tanaka, to Kyoto to act as a stalking horse. Hoping the thieves will kill Tanaka and the Ninja Spies will kill the thieves. But what the Shogunate doesn't realise is that Tanaka's even more incompetent assistant Mondo is in fact the leader of a gang of revengers for hire, there motto is "Sure Death" (or your money cheerfully refunded). Mondo doesn't know that everyone knows about the secret, but they all think he does. Poor Mondo, he not only has to deal with crazed Shogunate extremists, oddball ninjas, crooks who work for the Emperor and bicycle riding foreign death squads. He also have to deal with a wife and a crazy mother-in-law!
Mission To Kill · 2009Mission To Kill
★ 7.02009
SeriesWar & Politics
Continuation of the popular series of films about the assassins in Edo. This show marks the return of the jidaigeki series "Hissatsu Shigotonin," which has had several seasons between the 1970s and the 1990s. The franchise came back in 2007 with a one-shot special, but this is its first full season since 1992. Makoto Fujita returns as the protagonist Nakamura Mondo, one of the "shigotonin," a team of hired assassins.
Virgin Snow · 2007Virgin Snow
★ 6.42007
MovieRomance
Min, a Korean boy, moves to Japan with his father who is a potter. One day at a local shrine, he meets Nanae, a beautiful Japanese girl with stunning eyes who is aspiring to be a painter. Min falls in love at first sight and finds out that Nanae attends the school to which he has just transferred. Their friendship develops fast despite their cultural and language difference. When Min's grandmother falls ill, Min returns to Korea and Nanae is nowhere to be found. Had his true feelings for Nanae not been apparent to her? Why has Nanae disappeared without a word?
Crest of Betrayal · 1994Crest of Betrayal
★ 5.51994
MovieHorrorDrama
Weaving two storylines together: the first is the story of 18th-century shogunate intrigue and loyalty, and the second is a ghost story about a beautiful woman who falls victim to passion and evil.
Yagyu Jubei: The Fate of the World · 2015Yagyu Jubei: The Fate of the World
★ 4.02015
MovieDramaAction
The fate of Tokugawa’s world hangs in the balance as Yagyu Jubei is sent on a mission to discover what happened to 10 of the shogun’s spies that never returned. Matsukata Hiroki, one of the last surviving members of the Golden Age of Japanese Cinema proves that he has not lost a step as he portrays an older and wiser Yagyu Jubei in a movie that brings the best of samurai filmmaking into the 21st century. Summoned from semi-retirement by Shogun Iemitsu, Jubei is asked to take to the road and investigate a clan rumored to be preparing explosives for a rebellion. With help from a beautiful female ninja they head into the Shirakawa domain where the fighting skills of both are tested time and again as they strive to destroy a conspiracy that could bring a new Warring States Era. In the 1960's Yagyu Jubei was the signature role of the great Konoe Jushiro, father of Matsukata Hiroki. This brings the character full circle.
Hissatsu Shigotonin 2022 · 2022Hissatsu Shigotonin 2022
2022
MovieDramaCrime
Hissatsu Shigotonin 2022 is a continuation of the Hissatsu Shigotonin series. This was the SP released in 2022.
Onihei Crime Files: A Bandit Wedding · 2011Onihei Crime Files: A Bandit Wedding
2011
MovieHistoryDrama
Thieves broke into Yamashiroya, a drug wholesaler, and stole 780 ryo. In the storehouse, there was a sticker with a picture of an umbrella, the signature of Yahei Kasayama, a great thief who once ransacked the entire Kanto region. Heizo Hasegawa (Kichiemon Nakamura), the director of the reform of the thieves, learns that the theft was the work of Yahei's son Yataro (Somegoro Ichikawa [now Koshiro Matsumoto]) and his gang, thanks to the help of a spy named Isaji (Koichi Miura). He learns that Yataro is in the process of marrying Oito (Tomoka Kurokawa), the daughter of Shigezo of Narumi, a great thief from Owari. Heizo learns the true identity of the thread and the evil plans of the second generation Narumi Shigezo (Fuse Hiroshi), and he meets Nagashima no Kugoro (Matsudaira Ken), a former thief who is trying to arrange a marriage deal to return the favor to the previous generation Kasayama and the previous generation Narumi. ) while hiding his identity...
必殺仕事人2016 · 2016必殺仕事人2016
2016
Movie
必殺仕事人2013 · 2013必殺仕事人2013
2013
MovieHistory
History of Japan’s Yakuza — Ambition Corps 2 · 1999History of Japan’s Yakuza — Ambition Corps 2
1999
Movie
Using his strong sense of justice, Uragami Ryuji gains influence at both the factory and school. Though a dispute with the Nio-kai yakuza is once settled, their renewed provocation leads Ryuji and his followers to quit the factory and confront the Nio-kai directly.
日本暴力地帯 美しき野望 · 1998日本暴力地帯 美しき野望
1998
Movie
Kiyotsugu Kito, the punisher of darkness, meets Misa, a young widow of Sakakigumi, who is directly attending the Owada group. Misa decides to disband Sakakigumi and return to Katagi, but she overcomes the opposition of her members and she establishes a civil engineering company. Tokuto Mii! This is the gangster Otoshimae!
Gunball · 2001Gunball
2001
Movie
1990. Takizawa, the head of the Hayama group's Takizawa group, ordered the members to shoot and kill Sasamoto, who betrayed the group and tried to join the fifth Sannokai-affiliated Minamiyama group. This triggered the interruption of the "Yamaha War" by Sannokai and Hayama-gumi.
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