Best movies of Kenji Misumi

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 : Masayo Banri, Hajime Mitamura, Ryûzô Shimada, Shintarô Katsu,
Directors : Kenji Misumi,

The adventures of a blind, gambling masseur who also happens to be a master swordsman.

Actors : Yûko Hama, Isao Yamagata, 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 : 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 : Saburô Date, Nobuo Kaneko, Shintarô Katsu, Yoshi Katô,
Directors : Kenji Misumi,

When Zatoichi witnesses the murder of a young mother he promises to deliver the baby to the father. Along the way he gains the help of a reluctant criminal.

Actors : Yukiji Asaoka, Shintarô Katsu, Mari Atsumi, Kô Nishimura,
Directors : Kenji Misumi,

Hanzo Itami is an incorruptible Edo officer who learns that an infamous killer has fled from his island prison. Hanzo begins tracking him down using his unorthodox interrogation techniques.

Actors : Kaneko Iwasaki, Shintarô Katsu, Mikio Narita, Chizu Hayashi,
Directors : Kenji Misumi,

A samurai with a high skill in chess makes friends with Zatoichi, who finds that things become peculiar in his presence.

Actors : Yukiji Asaoka, Miwa Takada, Shintarô Katsu, Jûshirô Konoe,
Directors : Kenji Misumi,

After an artist is threatened by the yakuza into creating valuable but highly illegal pornography, the law aims to execute him. Zatoichi, having been honor bound to protect the man and his family, must now run against the law.

Actors : Reiko Ôhara, Shintarô Katsu, Pîtâ, Kazuko Yoshiyuki,
Directors : Kenji Misumi,

Zatoichi meets an infamous blind leader of a gangster organization as he contends with a gloomy ronin widower.

Actors : Shintarô Katsu, Kô Nishimura, Makoto Satô, Yoshiko Mita,
Directors : Kenji Misumi,

Zatoichi is tricked by a crime gang into killing a man. Realizing his mistake, he sets out to protect the dead man's sister, who is conflicted in accepting his help.

Actors : Kôjirô Hongô, Shiho Fujimura, Tarô Marui, Takashi Kanda,
Directors : Kenji Misumi,

Giant statue exacts revenge upon those who conquer its worshippers.

Actors : Masayo Banri, Mayumi Nagisa, Shiho Fujimura, Raizô Ichikawa,
Directors : Kenji Misumi,

A samurai seeks revenge and redemption after his family is executed by a rival clan.

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 : Akio Hasegawa, Yûsuke Kawazu, Hisaya Morishige, Raizô Ichikawa,
Directors : Kenji Misumi,

Actors : Kôichi Aihara, San'emon Arashi, Shinjirô Asano, Raizô Ichikawa,
Directors : Kenji Misumi,

Actors : Raizô Ichikawa, Michiko Sugata, Kei Satô, Ryûtarô Gomi,
Directors : Kenji Misumi,

Hanpei is an orphan mistreated by other vassals of the manor. He loves flowers and is named the castle gardener. One day in the forest he meets a samurai who teaches him his technique. To ...

Actors : Teruhiko Saigô, Takahiro Tamura, Ken Ogata, Hideki Takahashi,
Directors : Kenji Misumi,

Toranosuke Sugi, a brave and loyal Samurai, fights to practice and preserve his master's teachings amid a civil war. With friends on both side will he cave to temptation, or stand on principle and for freedom?

Actors : Tamao Nakamura, Kôjirô Hongô, Fujiko Yamamoto, Raizô Ichikawa,
Directors : Kenji Misumi,

The story follows the life of Ryunosuke Tsukue, an amoral samurai and a master swordsman with an unorthodox style.

Actors : Tamao Nakamura, Kôjirô Hongô, Fujiko Yamamoto, Raizô Ichikawa,
Directors : Kenji Misumi,

Ryunosuke awakens in the forest having no more idea what happened that previous night, as he'd been drunk & hallucinatory. He is surrounded by corpses & can surmise it's his own handiwork.