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Tokuzô Tanaka – Zatoichi no uta ga Kikoeru AKA Zatoichi’s Vengeance (1966)

Synopsis:Zatoichi comes upon a dying man who asks him to give a bag of money to “Taichi”. Zatoichi has no idea who this is but when he comes upon a small town harassed by gangsters, he finds that...

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Kenji Misumi – Zatoichi Jigoku tabi AKA Zatoichi and the Chess Expert (1965)

Synopsis:Zatoichi makes friends with a dangerous chess player, while fending off angry yakuza and bloodthirsty relatives out for revenge, and trying to save a sick child. Meanwhile, his luck with dice...

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Kimiyoshi Yasuda – Zatôichi hatashi-jô AKA Zatoichi and the Fugitives (1968)

Synopsis:Blind masseur and master swordsman Zatoichi becomes involved with a gang of bandits hiding out in a small village. While they hide in the attic of a silk mill, they manipulate the corrupt...

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Henri Verneuil – Peur sur la ville AKA Fear Over the City AKA Night Caller...

Policeman Jean Letellier is under pressure because the infamous gangster Marcucci escaped him publicly. Moreover during the pursuit an innocent bystander was killed by a stray bullet. Letellier is...

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Shintarô Katsu – Shin Zatôichi monogatari: Oreta tsue AKA Zatoichi in...

Synopsis:When the legendary blind swordsman attempts to make up for his role in the death of an elderly woman by rescuing her daughter from a life of prostitution, he soon finds himself beset by...

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Jens Jørgen Thorsen – Jesus vender tilbage AKA The Return (1992)

Shortly after his 1970 success with the film Stille Dage i Clichy (Quiet Days in Clichy), director Jens-Jorgen Thorsen started trying to get Jesus Vender Tilbage (The Return) made. For the next twenty...

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Lamberto Bava – Blastfighter (1984)

Jake “Tiger” Sharp, a former Georgian police officer has been released from jail, after serving a 8-year sentence for taking the law into his own hands. Tiger decides to return to his hometown Georgia...

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Takashi Miike – Tengoku kara kita otoko-tachi AKA The Guys from Paradise (2000)

Quote:Allegedly based on a number of true cases, The Guys From Paradise is a prison story set in the Phillipines against a background of corruption, drug trafficking and paedophilia. This being a...

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Georges Lautner – Le professionnel AKA The Professional (1981)

Synopsis:French secret agent Joss Baumont is sent to one of the African countries to kill their president Njala. However, at the last moment the political situation changes and the French secret...

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Kazuo Mori – Zatôichi goyô-tabi AKA Zatoichi at Large (1972)

Synopsis:Blind masseur and master swordsman Zatoichi finds a robbed and fatally wounded pregnant woman, whose baby he delivers before she dies. He takes the baby in search of its father and finds the...

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Kenji Misumi – Zatôichi abare-himatsuri AKA Zatoichi Goes to the Fire...

Synopsis: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....

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Kihachi Okamoto – Zatôichi to Yôjinbô AKA Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo (1970)

Synopsis:This film brings together two of the greatest characters created in Japanese cinema. Zatoichi (Shintaro Katsu) is the blind swordsman who goes back to a village that he remembers as peaceful...

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Kimiyoshi Yasuda – Shin Zatôichi monogatari: Kasama no chimatsuri AKA...

Zatoichi returns to his home village for the first time in over ten years to find much has changed and that corruption abounds. 1.73GB | 1h 27mn | 1024×426 | mkv...

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Kimiyoshi Yasuda – Shin zatô Ichi: Yabure! Tôjin-ken AKA Zatoichi Meets the...

Synopsis:Zatoichi the blind masseur and crack swordsman finds trouble in the edge of town in this 22nd installment of the classic samurai film series. When Zatoichi confronts the master Chinese...

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Kenji Misumi – Zatôichi kenka-daiko AKA Samaritan Zatoichi (1968)

SynopsisZatoichi is forced to kill a young man who owes a debt to a yakuza boss. Moments later, his sister Osode arrives with the money she earned (prostituting herself) to pay his debts. The bosses...

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Alain Delon – Pour la peau d’un flic AKA For a Cop’s Hide (1981)

Synopsis:In Paris, the ex-cop Choucas is a private detective that works with a mysterious partner, Tarpon, and the secretary Charlotte. He is presently working in an embezzlement case of an employee...

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Takashi Miike – Yurusarezaru mono AKA The man in white (2003)

Asuza is a yakusa always dressed in white, a pure, yet tarnished man. A child from the streets, he saw his father assassinated by his older brother, and his mother commit suicide. These traumatizing...

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Wei Lo – Bing tian xia nu AKA Vengeance of a Snowgirl (1971)

Synopsis:The head-slicing Snow Maid heroine is enraged after she learns that her mother has been raped by a gang of thugs. The vengeful woman picks up her sword and seeks out the notorious Golden Hair...

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Charles Crichton – Against the Wind (1948)

Brief synopsisPhilip Elliot, refugee Belgian priest, reports to a secret school in London for spies and saboteurs behind German lines. After training, he and two others parachute into Belgium to help...

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Mio Ezaki – Macao no Ryu AKA The Dragon of Macao (1965)

StoryRyu (Akira Kobayashi) sets foot on the Yokohama port with a suitcase filled with 300 thousand dollars. He was sent by a jewelry company in Hong Kong to retrieve a certain diamond that was stolen...

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