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While on the road, Zatoichi befriends a young mother right before she is savagely murdered. Promising her that he will hand over her baby to its father, the blind masseur embarks on an adventure both sentimental and beset by perilous action.
Kenji Misumi
Japan,
1964
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The only film among Kenji Misumi’s seventy-plus titles to feature a contemporary setting, Ken explores the conflict between ancient traditions and modern values in a Japanese society torn from its roots.
Kenji Misumi
1964
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Raizô Ichikawa plays the reluctant warrior to perfection in Kenki, the final installment of Kenji Misumi's “Sword Trilogy” and, as adapted from another Renzaburô Shibata novel, a brazenly unique hybrid of the samurai, supernatural, and romance genres.
Kenji Misumi
1965
DCP
An epic chanbara (sword fighting film) in compact form, Kiru depicts the life of Shingo Takakura (Raizô Ichikawa), a master samurai with a mysterious past and an unvanquishable combat technique.
Kenji Misumi
1962
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This exploitation-cinema classic took the action and graphic violence of the Lone Wolf and Cub series to delirious new heights.
Kenji Misumi
Japan,
1972
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Balancing physical action with Buddhist musings on life and death, the most spiritual of the Lone Wolf and Cub films finds Ogami’s combat skills put to the test by five different warrior-messengers.
Kenji Misumi
Japan,
1973
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The third Lone Wolf and Cub film follows Itto Ogami and Daigoro as they stumble upon a crime scene involving a group of lowlife swordsmen from the watari-kashi class.
Kenji Misumi
Japan,
1972
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The inaugural film in the Lone Wolf and Cub series immediately thrust Itto Ogami into the ranks of the all-time great samurai movie icons.
Kenji Misumi
Japan,
1972
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Hired by a yakuza boss to eliminate an accused debtor, Zatoichi fulfills his task, only to witness the victim’s sister paying the owed amount minutes later. When the crime lord tries to possess the woman along with the cash, the blind swordsman wrestles with the injustice he has caused.
Kenji Misumi
Japan,
1968
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The legendary midnight movie sensation that firmly embedded samurai mythology within American pop culture consciousness, this English-dubbed reedit of the first two films in the classic Japanese chanbaraseries Lone Wolf and Cub is a giddily entertaining, mesmerizingly gory classic of East-meets-West grindhouse mayhem.
Kenji Misumi and Robert Houston
United States,
1980
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Kenji Misumi, who directed the first installment of the Zatoichi series, returns with this tale in which the blind swordsman once again finds himself the protector of a child: a little girl pursued by both devious family members and bloodthirsty ruffians.
Kenji Misumi
Japan,
1965
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A dying woman begs Zatoichi to reunite her son with the father he has never met, but when the blind masseur searches for the man, he discovers that he has been forced by a local yakuza boss to pay off his gambling debts in an unusual way: by painting illegal erotica.
Kenji Misumi
Japan,
1967
Blu-ray, DVD
Cowritten by star Shintaro Katsu, this adventure pits Zatoichi against one of his most diabolical foes: a blind yakuza boss whose reign of terror and exploitation has made him nearly mythic.
Kenji Misumi
Japan,
1970
Blu-ray, DVD