Kimiyoshi Yasuda

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

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

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?

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.

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

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

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

The murder of an old man on sacred grounds provokes the intervention of vengeful yôkai (Japanese spirits.)

The shogun's illegitimate son decapitates a peasant which draws in nomadic Nemuri Kyoshiro into more sword-fighting adventures when he's blamed for the beheading.

Our anti-hero discovers locals who are oppressed, held captive against their will. For the swordsman to succeed, he first must wade through traps and assassins, and a few seductive maidens.

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.

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 gambling house and beats many up to boot. T...