Directed by Keisuke Kinoshita • 1949 • Japan
Iemon Tamiya is an impoverished masterless samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot have because of his marriage to Oiwa, who is completely devoted to her husband. She, in turn, is the object of a deadly, obsessive love of a criminal, Kohei, who has recently been released from prison. And all three find themselves manipulated by another ex-prisoner, Naosuke, who plans to place Iemon in a position to be blackmailed. Part 2 starts where the first film ended, with Iemon disposing of the bodies of his wife and Kohei, marrying upward, and being blackmailed by the evil Naosuke.
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Tokaido Yotsuya kaidan
Directed by Nobuo Nakagawa • 1959 • Japan
Also known as THE GHOST OF YOTSUYA, this Nobuo Nakagawa film follows a samurai who betrays his wife, only to find her ghost has returned to reap her vengeance upon him.
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Zatoichi at Large
ZATOICHI #23
Directed by Kazuo Mori • 1972 • JapanZatoichi comes across a pregnant woman dying from sword wounds and helps deliver her baby. Her final request to him: take the boy to see his father. From here, the film evolves into one of the wilder rides in the ZATOICHI series, including such ...
