Best movies of Tomisaburô Wakayama

Actors : Kayo Matsuo, Minoru Ôki, Shôgen Nitta, Tomisaburô Wakayama,

When the wife of the Shogun's Decapitator is murdered and he is ordered to commit suicide by the paranoid Shogun, he and his four-year-old son escape and become assassins for hire, embarking on a journey of blood and violent death.

Actors : Jackie Earle Haley, Tony Curtis, Antonio Inoki, Tomisaburô Wakayama,
Directors : John Berry,

In this third film of the Bad News Bears series, Tony Curtis plays a small time promoter/hustler who takes the pint-sized baseball team to Japan for a match against the country's best ...

Actors : Fumio Watanabe, Tomoko Mayama, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi, Tomisaburô Wakayama,
Directors : Kenji Misumi,

The story of a Ronin (i.e. a masterless samurai) who wanders the countryside of Japan with his small child, having various adventures.

Actors : Kayo Matsuo, Minoru Ôki, Akiji Kobayashi, Tomisaburô Wakayama,
Directors : Kenji Misumi,

Trailed by a clan of female ninja, Ogami is paid to assassinate a clan traitor accompanied by three killers known as the Gods of Death.

Actors : Isao Yamagata, Yûko Hama, Gô Katô, Tomisaburô Wakayama,
Directors : Kenji Misumi,

Ogami Itto volunteers to be tortured by the yakuza to save a prostitute and is hired by their leader to kill an evil chamberlain.

Actors : Michi Azuma, Yoichi Hayashi, Akihiro Tomikawa, Tomisaburô Wakayama,
Directors : Buichi Saitô,

Ogami is hired to kill a tattooed female assassin. Gunbei Yagyu, an enemy samurai, happens upon Ogami's son, and sees his chance for revenge.

Actors : Michiyo Ohkusu, Shingo Yamashiro, Akihiro Tomikawa, Tomisaburô Wakayama,
Directors : Kenji Misumi,

Five warriors challenge Ogami to duels. Each holds a part of information needed to complete the assassination of a mad clan leader.

Actors : Junko Hitomi, Akihiro Tomikawa, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Gorô Mutsumi,
Directors : Yoshiyuki Kuroda,

In the sixth and final film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, the final conflict between Ogami Itto and the Yagyu clan is carried out.

Actors : Masayo Banri, Shintarô Katsu, Yaeko Mizutani, Tomisaburô Wakayama,
Directors : Kazuo Mori,

The blind masseur and swordsman, Zatoichi, learns of a powerful political figure's secret and is quickly tailed by a group of killers.

Actors : Tsunehiko Watase, Kôji Tsuruta, Akiko Kudô, Tomisaburô Wakayama,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

A yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. They relocate to Okinawa to violently start over.

Actors : Hiroko Isayama, Kô Nishimura, Shima Iwashita, Tomisaburô Wakayama,
Directors : Masahiro Shinoda,

A mountain man captures a beautiful, but a manipulative city woman and goes to excessive lengths to please her every whim.

Actors : Shiho Fujimura, Shigeru Amachi, Raizô Ichikawa, Tomisaburô Wakayama,
Directors : Kenji Misumi,

As change sweep Japan, an honest man joins the Shinsengumi out of respect for their leader and because he wants to live and die as a samurai. However, as his involvement goes, reality and idealism come into deadly conflict.

Actors : Hôsei Komatsu, Junko Miyazono, Kunio Murai, Tomisaburô Wakayama,
Directors : Yoshihiro Ishikawa,

Actors : Kôji Tsuruta, Bunta Sugawara, Noboru Andô, Tomisaburô Wakayama,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

Coming out of jail and hoping for a quiet life, Yokohama yakuza has to take the lead of his gang after the death of his boss. His small group is is taken in a crossfire between a big yakuza...

Actors : Nobuo Kaneko, Hiroki Matsukata, Bunta Sugawara, Tomisaburô Wakayama,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

Bunta Sugawara is Miyoshi, a low-level assassin of the Yamamori gang who is sent to jail after a bungled hit. While in stir, family member Aoki attempts to seize power from the boss, and ...

Actors : Toshinori Omi, Masao Kusakari, Kaoru Yumi, Tomisaburô Wakayama,
Directors : Kon Ichikawa,

This extraordinarily complex film is not only a send-up of every samurai film ever made, it is also an extrapolation of the value of life. The Yamatai, represented by Prince Susano-O and ...

Actors : Harue Kyô, Masaki Kyômoto, Yûsuke Takita, Tomisaburô Wakayama,
Directors : Yôichi Takabayashi,

To satisfy her lover's fetish for tattooed women, Akane agrees to have her body covered in eloborate tattoos by Kyogoro, an old craftsman. Kyogoro has developed a special technique, by ...

Actors : Sentarô Fushimi, Chiezô Kataoka, Yatarô Kurokawa, Tomisaburô Wakayama,
Directors : Ko Sasaki,

Near the end of the Edo period, a military force known as Shinsengumi guards the Shogun.

Actors : Eiji Okada, Ryûtarô Ôtomo, Shingo Yamashiro, Tomisaburô Wakayama,
Directors : Shigehiro Ozawa,

During the middle of the Kanei Period (1624-1644) Japan was in the early stages of its most peaceful era. This left a large number of unemployed samurai with nothing to do, and their morale...

Actors : Raizô Ichikawa, Miyako Endô, Yukiko Fuji, Tomisaburô Wakayama,
Directors : Teinosuke Kinugasa,

A Buddhist priest becomes also a magician, dedicating himself to the protection of life wherever it's needed, whereupon he finds himself in direct service of the Queen. Political intrigue ...