Movies: Ikkei Tamaki

  • 1953
    Ugetsu

    Ugetsu (1953)

    Ugetsu

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    In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearby village, in defiance of a local sage's warning against seeking to profit from warfare. Genjuro's pursuit of both riches and the mysteriou...

    Ugetsu
  • 1953
    Gate of Hell

    Gate of Hell (1953)

    Gate of Hell

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    Japan, 1159. Moritō, a brave samurai, performs a heroic act by rescuing the lovely Kesa during a violent uprising. Moritō falls in love with her, but becomes distraught when he finds out that she is married....

    Gate of Hell
  • 1954
    The Crucified Lovers

    The Crucified Lovers (1954)

    The Crucified Lovers

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    When the wife of a 17th century Kyoto scroll-maker is falsely accused of having an affair with his best employee, the pair flee the city and find themselves falling for one another....

    The Crucified Lovers
  • 1962
    The Tale of Zatoichi Continues

    The Tale of Zatoichi Continues (1962)

    The Tale of Zatoichi Continues

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    Returning to the village where a year before he had killed Hirate, a much-admired opponent, Zatoichi encounters another swordsman and former rival in love....

    The Tale of Zatoichi Continues
  • 1967
    Zatoichi Challenged

    Zatoichi Challenged (1967)

    Zatoichi Challenged

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    Ichi is staying at an inn when a woman dies. Her dying wish is that Ichi take her son to his father, an artist living in a nearby town. After arriving in the town, Ichi finds out that the father has been forced by a local boss to create illegal porno...

    Zatoichi Challenged
  • 1963
    Zatoichi the Fugitive

    Zatoichi the Fugitive (1963)

    Zatoichi the Fugitive

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    After arriving in the town of Shimonita, Ichi finds that a price has been put on his head by a local yakuza boss. He's drawn into a trap, but after hearing of the slaying of a former love, Ichi furiously fights his way through the entire clan to face...

    Zatoichi the Fugitive
  • 1968
    The Funeral Racket

    The Funeral Racket (1968)

    The Funeral Racket

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    The film portrays a satirical view of today's heartless money-oriented society....

    The Funeral Racket
  • 1960
    Satan's Sword: The Dragon God

    Satan's Sword: The Dragon God (1960)

    Satan's Sword: The Dragon God

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    The sequel to Daibosatsu tôge (1960) and the second of the trilogy follows the adventures of Ryunosuke Tsukue after he is blinded....

    Satan's Sword: The Dragon God
  • 1966
    Zatoichi's Vengeance

    Zatoichi's Vengeance (1966)

    Zatoichi's Vengeance

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    Zatoichi comes upon a dying man who asks him to give a bag of money to "Taichi". Zatoichi has no idea who this is but when he comes upon a small town harassed by gangsters, he finds that "Taichi" was the man's young son. Along his travels he also met...

    Zatoichi's Vengeance
  • 1970
    Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival

    Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival (1970)

    Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival

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    The blind masseuse is targeted by the leader of a powerful yakuza group while also fending off a jealous husband bent on revenge. Zatoichi tours Edo's underground via a rousing onsen fight scene, gambling houses and the gender-bending character of Um...

    Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival
  • 1968
    Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters

    Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters (1968)

    Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters

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    A greedy developer, in league with a corrupt Shrine Magistrate, brutally tries to drive people out of a tenement building and destroy the shrine in back. But he makes the fatal mistake of hosting a 100 Ghost Stories ceremony without the closing clea...

    Yokai Monsters: 100 Monsters
  • 1963
    Shinsengumi Chronicles

    Shinsengumi Chronicles (1963)

    Shinsengumi Chronicles

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

    Shinsengumi Chronicles
  • 1957
    Secret of Naruto

    Secret of Naruto (1957)

    Secret of Naruto

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    From the pen of Yoshikawa Eiji comes this exciting story. The Naruto Strait separates Tokushima from the islands of Awaji and Honshu. On Tokushima the mad lord dreams of conquest and forges a bloody revolt against the Tokugawa shogunate. A mysterious...

    Secret of Naruto
  • 1961
    Buddha

    Buddha (1961)

    Buddha

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    An Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six years in search of spiritual enlightenment. Siddartha (Cojoin Hong) turns his back on the old religion when people are starving needlessly and holy rituals ...

    Buddha
  • 1964
    Sleepy Eyes of Death 4: Sword of Seduction

    Sleepy Eyes of Death 4: Sword of Seduction (1964)

    Sleepy Eyes of Death 4: Sword of Seduction

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    A fugitive christian "saint" (female, of course!) and a sadistic drug-addled princess both have their eye on Kyoshiro. The fact that a bunch of ruthless smugglers also want him dead is the least of his problems!...

    Sleepy Eyes of Death 4: Sword of Seduction
  • 1951
    Judge of the Ashuras

    Judge of the Ashuras (1951)

    Judge of the Ashuras

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    Judge of the Ashuras
  • 1954
    The Woman in the Rumor

    The Woman in the Rumor (1954)

    The Woman in the Rumor

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    Yukiko's fiance learns her mother runs a geisha house and ends their engagement. She despises what her mother does until one of her clients shows interest and starts to woo her....

    The Woman in the Rumor
  • 1963
    Bronze Magician

    Bronze Magician (1963)

    Bronze Magician

    6.91963HD

    Yoso is truly a lost classic, set in the Nara Era (710-794), from Kinugasa Teinosuke the same writer/director who gave us the recognized classic Gate of Hell (Jigokumon, 1952) & the milestone silent surrealist masterpiece A Page of Madness (Kurutta I...

    Bronze Magician
  • 1968
    Samaritan Zatoichi

    Samaritan Zatoichi (1968)

    Samaritan Zatoichi

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    Zatoichi is forced to kill a young man who owes a debt to a yakuza boss. Moments later, his sister Osode arrives with the money she earned (prostituting herself) to pay his debts. The bosses true motives are revealed and he attempts to steal Osode ev...

    Samaritan Zatoichi
  • 1957
    Freelance Samurai

    Freelance Samurai (1957)

    Freelance Samurai

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    One of Japanese folklore's most popular characters is brought to life on the silver screen in this terrific version of legendary Demon slaying Peach Boy....

    Freelance Samurai