List of the best Kihachi Okamoto movies: The Sword of Doom(1966), Samurai Assassin(1965), Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo(1970), Red Lion(1969), East Meets West(1995) ... ...
Drama
Japan
1966
122 Minutes
Director
Tatsuya Nakadai Toshirô Mifune Yûzô Kayama Michiyo Aratama Ichirô Nakatani Yôko Naitô Kei Satô
samurai competitor brother mistress assassin intense chilling japan geisha house madness dueling ghosts revenge wretched excess rivalry adventure ancient times
Through his unconscionable actions against others, a sociopath samurai builds a trail of vendettas that follow him closely.
Action
Japan
1965
122 Minutes
Director
Michiyo Aratama Susumu Fujita Chusha Ichikawa Yunosuke Ito Keiju Kobayashi Koshiro Matsumoto Toshirô Mifune Takashi Shimura Haruko Sugimura Nami Tamura Kaoru Yachigusa
February 17 to March 3, 1860, inside Edo castle. A group of assassins wait by Sakurada Gate to kill the lord of the House of Ii, a powerful man in the Tokugawa government, which has ruled ... See full summary »
Action, Adventure
Japan
1970
117 Minutes
Director
Shintarô Katsu Toshirô Mifune Ayako Wakao Osamu Takizawa Sakatoshi Masakane Shin Kishida Kanjuro Arashi Toshiyuki Hosokawa
Zatoichi tries to unrest the mob rule over a small village all while the gang leader's bodyguard is actually the Yojimbo, secretly taking the gang down from the inside. Will the two heroes realize in time that they are on the same side?
Sports & Fitness, Adventure
Japan
1969
116 Minutes
Director
Yunosuke Ito Shima Iwashita Shigeru Kohyama Toshirô Mifune Yûko Mochizuki Nobuko Otowa Etsushi Takahashi Takahiro Tamura No Terada Jitsuko Yoshimura
Impersonating an Imperial Army officer by wearing a "red lion's mane", a poor servant returns to his village after 10 years of absence to end the village's suffering caused by corrupt ... See full summary »
Western
Japan
1995
124 Minutes
Director
Hiroyuki Sanada Chip Mayer Scott Bachicha Tatsuya Nakadai Ittoku Kishibe Richard Nason Etsushi Takahashi Angelique Roehm Jay Kerr David Midthunder Jed Curtis
(Japanese with English subtitles) A disgraced warrior planning the murder of a Japanese diplomat, and a ninja in the employ of a navy official are about to land in San Francisco when a band... See full summary »