Best movies of Kimiyoshi Yasuda

Actors : Ryûzô Shimada, Shiho Fujimura, Reiko Fujiwara, Shintarô Katsu,
Directors : Kimiyoshi Yasuda,

Zatoichi promises to deliver a maiden safely home but finds two dangerous gangs have a mysterious interest in the young girl.

Actors : Eiko Taki, Miwa Takada, Kichijirô Ueda, Shintarô Katsu,
Directors : Kimiyoshi Yasuda,

The blind swordsman tries to locate a girl's missing father.

Actors : Jun Fujimaki, Miwa Takada, Ryûtarô Gomi, Yoshihiko Aoyama,
Directors : Kimiyoshi Yasuda,

A giant stone statue comes to life to protect the residents of a small town against the depradations of an evil warlord.

Actors : Shintarô Katsu, Watako Hamaki, Michie Terada, Yu Wang,
Directors : Kimiyoshi Yasuda,

Two of Japan and China's greatest heroic swordsman find themselves caught in a plot to protect a young child. But will national distrust and simple misunderstanding keep the two kindred spirits apart?

Actors : Makoto Fujita, Shiho Fujimura, Shintarô Katsu, Yoshihiko Aoyama,
Directors : Kimiyoshi Yasuda,

Zatoichi, while fighting off the usual group of gangsters, meets the apprentice of the swordsman who created his blade, who relays bad news about the sword.

Actors : Shintarô Katsu, Takashi Shimura, Kyôsuke Machida, Kayo Mikimoto,
Directors : Kimiyoshi Yasuda,

Zatoichi runs afoul of some evil fugitives, working for a corrupt law official.

Actors : Eiji Okada, Shintarô Katsu, Yukiyo Toake, Kei Satô,
Directors : Kimiyoshi Yasuda,

Zatoichi returns to his home village for the first time in over ten years to find much has changed and that corruption abounds.

Actors : Saburô Date, Kyooko Azuma, Raizô Ichikawa, Ryônosuke Azuma,
Directors : Kimiyoshi Yasuda,

Kyoshiro demonstrates his skill by slicing the clothes from the body of a female opponent, and gets involved in a plot that could spell his doom!

Actors : Jun Fujimaki, Shinobu Araki, Ryûtarô Gomi, Jun Hamamura,
Directors : Kimiyoshi Yasuda,

The local yôkai (Japanese spirits) interfere to avenge a murder and thwart the plans of corrupt officials.

Actors : Raizô Ichikawa, Machiko Hasegawa, Michiko Saga, Masako Aboshi,
Directors : Kimiyoshi Yasuda,

Tsurumatsu, a young boy, is supposed to be a new Lord but he's not really interested, he would rather be a carpenter. So he gets kidnapped and it's up to Nemuri Kyoshiro to save him.

Actors : Mayumi Ogawa, Hôsei Komatsu, Naoko Kubo, Shintarô Katsu,
Directors : Kimiyoshi Yasuda,

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 ...

Actors : Saburô Date, Takeshi Hamada, Machiko Hasegawa, Tatsuo Endô,
Directors : Kimiyoshi Yasuda,

A debt collector visits a gambling den in search of a gambler - the gambler's wife and daughter are sick; unknown to the debt collector he kills the gambler. He learns more about his wife ...

Actors : Kenjirô Ishiyama, Saburô Date, Reiko Kasahara, Teruo Ishiyama,
Directors : Kimiyoshi Yasuda,

A blind masseur sleeps with the wife of a samurai, who catches them in the act and kills them. The murdered couple return as vengeful ghosts. This film is a remake of a 1957 film. It was the final picture made by Daiei Studios.