The heroic warrior uses his magical powers and great sword skills to battle a criminal gang who all wear devil outfits.

In Kyoto a young kimono maker with traditional ideas gets involved with a married professor.

1962 Japanese movie

Kazuo Miyagawa’s prizewinning black-and-white cinematography draws out the moral shadings of Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata’s 1952 novel Thousand Cranes, a quietly devastating story of a young man, orphaned during the war, who stumbles into a passionate yet tragic relationship with his late father’s mistress and her daughter.

Film by director Kenji Misumi

Third film of the yoidore hakase series

Blind swordsman/masseuse Zatoichi befriends a young woman looking for her father, a village leader who has disappeared. As he helps her investigate the disappearance, Zatoichi also becomes involved with another young woman who is trying to help her brother, who has murdered someone at about the same time and place as the missing man was last seen.

A racist sergeant stationed in post-war Japan finds himself softening towards the children and falling for a local woman.