Shima Iwashita

Shin Kishida

Haruko Sugimura

Akio Kinoshita

Medical student Himoto Haruo makes no compromises in resolving issues with his mother, his authoritarian department boss, and his girlfriend's abusive employer.

The Petrified Forest

The Petrified Forest (1973)

Yûsaku Matsuda

Tetsurô Tanba

Yôko Takahashi

A cowardly samurai is sent as an official executioner targeting the clan's former sword instructor, a man whose sword and spear skills are second to none.

Hito goroshi

Hito goroshi (1976)

Kazuko Yoshiyuki

Meiko Kaji

Yoshio Harada

Lady Snowblood (Shurayuki-hime) is caught by the police and sentenced to death for her crimes (in Lady Snowblood I). As she is sent to the gallows she is rescued by the secret police who offer her a deal to assassinate some revolutionaries.—Fred Cabral

Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance

Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance (1974)

Tomisaburô Wakayama

Sô Yamamura

Asao Uchida

Fourth film in the Lone Wolf and Cub series. Ogami is hired to kill a tattooed female assassin. Gunbei Yagyu, an enemy samurai, happens upon Ogami's son, and sees his chance for revenge.—barabbas

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril (1972)

Sei Hiraizumi

Kayo Matsuo

In the second film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto battles a group of female ninja in the employ of the Yagyu clan and must assassinate a traitor who plans to sell his clan's secrets to the Shogunate.—Anonymous

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx (1972)

Kenji Sahara

Akihiko Hirata

Michael A. Ross

Aliens intend to take over the planet and, just in case Godzilla tries to interfere, have built a mechanical version of him to put an end to his interference. The Earth humans summon the legendary King Shîsâ to assist Godzilla in the battle.—Todd A. Bobenrieth

Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla

Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla (1974)

Naomi Tani

Hatsuo Yamaya

Akira Takahashi

Juzo is a self-important director. Production is stopped on his new film whenever lead celebrity Meiko is too obviously expecting to film gender views. Interested in a replacement, he comes over the common Ikuyo, starring right here in a single associated with rare functions which doesn't need her to be bound with rope. Everything goes well until Naomi begins an intercourse scene with Ikuyo, that got Meiko expecting.—Ficg

Ecstasy of the Black Rose

Ecstasy of the Black Rose (1975)

Minori Terada

Fumio Watanabe

Janet Hatta

Set in 13th century Kyoto, where the Imperial court is under control of the clergy. Shijo was a peasant girl sold to a powerful daima as a concubine. Bored by her life in seclusion she starts an affair with State Councillor and the brother of a retired Emperor. Realizing that she is only a plaything of the court, she becomes a nun and wanders the country.—AnonymusB

It Was a Faint Dream

It Was a Faint Dream (1974)

Tokie Hidari

Shoji Oki

Maya Kitajima

Two student couples stumble upon a cult dedicated to promoting the primordial human state through rape and agriculture.

Mandara

Mandara (1971)

Kanjûrô Arashi

Haruhiko Okamura

Yasumi Hara

As a faithful young houseboy fully devotes himself to his spiritual duty, his teacher plans turning over his grandfather's mountain property to realtors for profit.

Poem

Poem (1972)

Sandra Bernhard

Long ago there was a great samurai warrior who served his Shogun honorably. The Shogun however grew paranoid as he became more and more senile. The Shogun sought to destroy all those who might stand to oppose his rule, and so he sent his ninja spies to the samurai's home. The ninjas failed to kill the samurai, but did kill his beloved wife. From then on, the samurai swore on his honor to seek out the Shogun and avenge the death of his love. The samurai roams the countryside with his toddler son taking on mercenary work for money until the final battle with the Shogun's three Masters of Death.—William Pagan

Shogun Assassin

Shogun Assassin (1980)

Michiyo Yamazoe

Wataru Ômae

Hideji Ôtaki

On the age of five, Akiko Kashiwagi had a weird dream that has traumatized her life. Eighteen years later, Akiko Kashiwagi is a school teacher that lives with her younger sister Natsuko Kashiwagi and their dog Leo in an isolated house by a lake. Her fiance Dr. Takashi Saeki visits her every now and then when possible. When a coffin is delivered in the boat house of her acquaintance nearby her house, he is subdue by a weird man. Soon victims without blood and two holes on the neck arrive in the hospital and Dr. Takashi Saeki is attacking them at the lake shore where Akiko lives and he decides to investigate.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Lake of Dracula

Lake of Dracula (1971)

Kunie Tanaka

Toshio Kurosawa

Dracula, played by an uncredited caucasian, was shipwrecked in the 1600s in Japan, when Christianity was illegal. He was forced to spit on the cross and wander alone in the desert. Upon finding himself bleeding, he was so thirsty he drank the blood and acquired a taste for it, attacking local teenager Keiko. In present day, Professor Shiraki arrives at a girl's school where he was to be teaching, but now the principal, whose wife died in a car accident, wants Shiraki to take over for him. The principal is keeping his wife in the cellar for a week, supposedly according to local custom, to see if she might return to life. Immediately suspicious, Shiraki investigates and becomes entrenched in horror of the vampires. Three girls are caught up too, as one has already been bitten, and her roomates stay to care for her.—Scott Hutchins

Evil of Dracula

Evil of Dracula (1974)

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