Akado Suzunosuke vs. the Devil in Crescent Moon Tower

First of nine films based on the novel. The first live-action adaptation focuses on the origins of how Akadô Suzunosuke learned his skills as a swordsman.

In the first two films we learn the character's origins, including his childhood and how he learned his fighting skills. Later, he must face his friend, who has joined a gang of criminals.

The magical swordsman battles a gang of cutthroats, who are led by a peg-legged villain.

Suzunosuke visits a martial arts master and tries to learn the 'Vacuum Slash,' a secret technique of producing tornadoes.

The heroic warrior uses his magical powers and great sword skills to battle a criminal gang who all wear devil outfits.

Suzunosuke faces perhaps his wildest foes. This evil gang is lead by a one-eyed birdman and other demonic creatures.

Suzunosuke must finish his battle with the Skull Mask Gang—while facing a cave man as well.

Suzunosuke continues his battle with the Skull Mask gang in a booby-trapped cave.

A tanuki-themed musical.

Shinjiro is a rambler, a single sword carrying lone wolf with only his fighting skills to protect him. He doesn’t know where his road leads, only that he must find his lost sister, and the ronin who stole her away. The ronin that Shinjiro has sworn to kill. On the road he’ll find his sister and test his blade against his bitter enemy. He also encounters a lost boy searching for his father, a boy he will swear to protect, and find his own lost love, a daughter of the yakuza who draws him into a frenzied and bloody battle between rival yakuza gangs for the control of a frightened town.

A young judoka investigates the mysterious death of his best friend.

A lighthearted musical comedy in which a tanuki detective runs amok chasing a tanuki murderer who has disguised himself as a human and fled into the bustling streets of Ginza.

Period comedy.