Raizō Ichikawa

Ninja, A Band of Assassins

Warlord Oda Nobunaga seeks to unite a fractured Japan. A young man trained in the arts of ninjitsu is manipulat...

Taira Clan Saga

Japan, 1137. The Taira family, a samurai clan, becomes involved in the disputes between Emperor Toba and the mo...

Sleepy Eyes of Death 4: Sword of Seduction

A fugitive christian "saint" (female, of course!) and a sadistic drug-addled princess both have their eye on Ky...

A Lustful Man

Fascinated with women from an early age, Yonosuke had his first sexual encounter at the age of seven. From that...

Buddha

An Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six years in search o...

The Loyal 47 Ronin

Japan, 1701. A group of samurai become rônin after their lord is forced to commit seppuku for assaulting a cour...

Satan's Sword

The Dai-bosatsu toge trilogy is based on Kaizan Nakazato's unfinished long series of novels (41 books, written...

The Great Wall

In 221 BC, Qin Shihuangdi conquered the rest of China. Qin's great accomplishments and also his serious faults...

Conflagration

Learning of his family's collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the Golden Pavilion,...

An Actor's Revenge

In Edo Japan, a kabuki actor seeks revenge against the three men who drove his parents to their deaths years ag...

Sworn Brothers

Ichikawa Raizo’s last film. He plays a Yakuza enforcer who kills a man on his boss's orders. He’s then sent to...

Shinsengumi Chronicles

As winds of change sweep Japan, an honest man joins the Shinsengumi out of admiration for its leader, and becau...

Nichiren and the Great Mongol Invasion

During the 1200's, legendary Buddhist monk Nichiren returns from his studies to lead Japan out of moral crisis...

The Gay Masquerade

The film won 1959 Blue Ribbon Awards for best actor Raizo Ichikawa and for best cinematography Kazuo Miyagawa....

The Radiant Prince

Hikaru Genji, the haunted romantic hero of Lady Murasaki Shikibu’s “Genji Monogatari” (Tale of Genji) comes to...

Ken

Kokubu, captain of his university's kendo team, is a mystery to those who know him: An ascetic dedicated to a p...

Assignment Dragon No. 3

In late 1940 the Japanese were anxious to conclude peace in China and to that end sent Colonel Hidaka to inaugu...

Sword Devil

Hanpei is a gentle young samurai that loves flowers. One day, he witnesses an old man's quick draw of the sword...

The Gambler's Code

One of Japan's most popular stories is the tale of Kutsukake Tokijiro, a traveling gambler who finds that he mu...

Cut the Shadow

The womanizing master of a run-down dojo hires an unemployed samurai to make himself look good instead of learn...

A Killer's Key

A lone wolf assassin, masquerading as a traditional dance instructor named Nitta, is called in to avert a poten...

Sleepy Eyes of Death 6: Sword of Satan

Sixth film in the series. A little boy who just wants to be a carpenter is at the center of a plot that might t...

Bonchi

Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overb...

Notebooks of Heiji Zenigata: Spider on the Skin

The Fencing Master

The Fencing Master tells the story of a man trying to survive as the only world he knows is becoming increasing...

Shinobi No Mono 6: The Last Iga Spy

[Period covered: 1637-1651] This is one of the most complicated plots of any of the Shinobi no Mono films! This...

The Broken Commandment

Ushimatsu's father told him never to reveal his lower-caste heritage; years later, he now contemplates confidin...

Satan's Sword: The Dragon God

The sequel to Daibosatsu tôge (1960) and the second of the trilogy follows the adventures of Ryunosuke Tsukue a...

Satan's Sword III: The Final Chapter

Disguised as a beggar monk, Ryunosuke is harassed along the road by the rowdy members of a country dojo or fenc...

Secret Assignment

In the fourth film of series, Secret Assignment, Raizo again plays the Jiro Shiina. This time he's out to disco...

The Betrayal

A naively honorable samurai comes to the bitter realization that his devotion to moral samurai principles makes...

Shinobi no Mono 4: Siege

[Period covered: 1614-1615] Tokugawa Ieyasu is now the ruler of all Japan. But one last loose thread must be ti...

The Night before Pearl Harbor

The last film in the series brings the tale to the doorstep of Pacific War, with the planning of the bombing of...

Sleepy Eyes of Death 3: Full Circle Killing

A decapitation at the hands of the shogun's monstrous misbegotten son kicks off the action and draws nomadic Ne...

Jirocho Fuji 2: The Chivalrous

The exciting story of Jirocho and his yakuza gang that controlled the area of the Tokaido during the latter day...

Sleepy Eyes of Death 2: Sword of Adventure

Wandering samurai Nemuri Kyoshiro (Raizô Ichikawa) finds a bulls-eye on his back after befriending the shogunat...