Junichiro Yamashita

Zatoichi, while fighting off the usual group of gangsters, meets the apprentice of the swordsman who created his blade, who relays bad news about the sword.

In a mountainous region of Japan, Lord Arakawa kidnaps the men of nearby villages to use as slave labor, producing gunpowder from his sulfur pits. A band of young boys decide to rescue their enslaved fathers on their own.

An alienated young man flirts with extremism during a major student protest.

Haunting melodrama focuses on a young bamboo worker who takes his father's prostitute as his wife.

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