Sword of the Beast
Legendary swordplay filmmaker Hideo Gosha’s Sword of the Beast chronicles the flight of the low-level swordsman Gennosuke, who kills one of his ministers as part of a reform plot. His…
Adventures of Zatoichi
Blind swordsman/masseuse Zatoichi befriends a young woman looking for her father, a village leader who has disappeared. As he helps her investigate the disappearance, Zatoichi also becomes involved with another…
Early Spring Story
A high school student Hitomi poses as a university student and ends up in falling in love with middle-aged Okawa, her dead mother’s ex-boyfriend. Hitomi’s feelings shift back and forth…
Illusion of Blood
The Face of Another
A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.
Three Outlaw Samurai
Shiba, a wandering ronin, encounters a band of peasants who have kidnapped the daughter of their dictatorial magistrate, in hopes of coercing from him a reduction in taxes. Shiba takes…