Another subversion of audience expectations has Kobayashi acting somewhat cowardly in the snow-bound final showdown, an unheard-of trait in a ninkyô yakuza hero. Also with Tamio Kawaji as a sword-wielding assassin in Zero-cape-and -hat(!)
Jûbei Yagyû meets his former master Akizuki Hayato-no-Kami in Akizuki Village. An evil gang is trying to murder the sickly Hayato, but Jûbei Yagyû will ruin their plan.
Females fighting with other in a yakuza gang.
Hired on a mission by the government, Shinzo soon finds himself in the center of a conspiracy looking to unearth a mythical clan and their hidden gold.
The first of two films in the Ryuzen series, a rogue martial arts practicing, fornicating, alcohol drinking, gambling priest who competes against the local yakuza thug by opening his own ...