Shintaro Katsu movie career page

Producer

(81 min)

1980 - Swordplay - Japan, USA

The Lone Wolf refuses to swear allegiance to the evil Shogun. The shogun has Lone Wolf’s family killed, except for his baby son. Lone Wolf swears revenge, and the father and son team become Ronin (masterless samurai), and travel across Japan working for whoever will pay them, but the Shogun’s men are everywhere, and the notorious ‘Masters of Death’ want blood.

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Director : Kenji Misumi, Robert Houston

Cast : Tomisaburo Wakayama, Kayo Matsuo, Minoru Ohki

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Zatoichi: The Festival Of Fire

(96 min)

1970 - Chambara - Japan

Zatoichi gets caught up in a city where a secret organization is running things through "favor" money and intimidation. Their leader, the Dark Imperial Lord Yamikubo takes an interest in Zatoichi as they both share the burden of blindness. Our hero gets caught up in a hell of a mess though, as he not only ends up with the entire Yakuza after his head, but is also the target of an angry husband blaming Ichi for sleeping with his wife.

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Director : Misumi Kenji

Cast : Shintaro Katsu, Tatsuya Nakadai, Peter, Reiko Ohara

Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo

(116 min)

1970 - Chambara - Japan

Zatoichi (Shintaro Katsu) strolls into a town that he’s been away from for 3 long years, retaining only the fondest memories of his stay there. What he ends up running into is a web of gold related conspiracy and general backstabbery. Masagoro, the leader of the town running Kobotoke clan, is attempting to steal the gold from the Shogunate Mint which is run by his brother who himself is debasing the loot. In steps Zatoichi, prompting Masagoro to hire the yojimbo Sasa Daisuke (Toshiro Mifune) to get rid of him. Zatoichi must simultaneously protect his neck and get to the bottom of the villages troubles in this film by Okamoto Kihachi.

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Director : Kihachi Okamoto

Cast : Shintaro Katsu, Toshiro Mifune, Ayako Wakao, Osamu Takizawa

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Moetsukita Chizu

(118 min)

1968 - Drama - Japan

On one perfectly ordinary day, a salary man named Hiro Nemuro went out to deliver some documents. Having forgotten a paperclip to hold them together, he returned once more to his house, spoke to his wife and left once more, never to be seen again. The movie begins with psychedelic contour maps which look something like Mandelbrot sets presented one after another to the camera. Next, a statement of the facts of the case is read while we fly over a golden Tokyo, as seen through distorted double-vision. Joining a detective who has been hired by the wife of the missing man, the film progresses at first like a hard-boiled detective story as the search leads the investigator further into the seedy Tokyo underworld of unlicensed taxi drivers, blackmail gangs and pornography, but his life becomes bit-by-bit more like the life of the missing man he seeks until he begins to lose his own identity.

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Director : Hiroshi Teshigahara

Cast : Shintaro Katsu, Etsuko Ichihara, Osamu Ogawa, Kiyoshi Atsumi

Zatoichi Vol 1 - The Tale of Zatoichi

(96 min)

1962 - Chambara - Japan

Ichi finds himself in the middle of a gang war and befriends a dying Samurai by the name of Master Hirate. ZATOICHI – THE TALE OF ZATOCIHI is the first film in the legendary ZATOICHI film series starring Shintaro Katsu as Zatoichi, the blind masseuse and master swordsman. This beginning film has Ichi visiting his friend, Boss Sukegoro, as he passes by the town of Iioka. He discovers that Boss Sukegoro is in the midst of a feud with the next town over, Sasagawa, lead by Boss Shigezo. After much convincing and begging, Ichi’s talents are reluctantly bought to side with Boss Sukegoro in the upcoming war.

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Director : Kenji Misumi

Cast : Shintaro Katsu, Masayo Mari, Ryuzo Shimada, Gen Mitamura, Shigero Amachi, Chitose

Zatoichi: The Festival Of Fire

(96 min)

1970 - Chambara - Japan

Zatoichi gets caught up in a city where a secret organization is running things through "favor" money and intimidation. Their leader, the Dark Imperial Lord Yamikubo takes an interest in Zatoichi as they both share the burden of blindness. Our hero gets caught up in a hell of a mess though, as he not only ends up with the entire Yakuza after his head, but is also the target of an angry husband blaming Ichi for sleeping with his wife.

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Director : Misumi Kenji

Cast : Shintaro Katsu, Tatsuya Nakadai, Peter, Reiko Ohara

Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo

(116 min)

1970 - Chambara - Japan

Zatoichi (Shintaro Katsu) strolls into a town that he’s been away from for 3 long years, retaining only the fondest memories of his stay there. What he ends up running into is a web of gold related conspiracy and general backstabbery. Masagoro, the leader of the town running Kobotoke clan, is attempting to steal the gold from the Shogunate Mint which is run by his brother who himself is debasing the loot. In steps Zatoichi, prompting Masagoro to hire the yojimbo Sasa Daisuke (Toshiro Mifune) to get rid of him. Zatoichi must simultaneously protect his neck and get to the bottom of the villages troubles in this film by Okamoto Kihachi.

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Director : Kihachi Okamoto

Cast : Shintaro Katsu, Toshiro Mifune, Ayako Wakao, Osamu Takizawa

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