Yūko Hamada

A sword-wielding warrior travels across Japan with his young son in tow, crossing paths with a prostitute in peril and a vicious group of yakuza.

Zatoichi arrives in a town where a gambling house is kidnapping its poor, debt-ridden patrons. A rival establishment moves to pay those debts and free the peasants, but this second house’s seemingly altruistic boss is actually laying the groundwork for a ruthless money-grabbing scheme. The sixteenth Zatoichi film is the first effort from its star’s own Katsu Productions, and it is one of the series’ most daring, with its complex characters, subversive social themes, and moral outrage.

What do you get when Noriaki Yuasa, director of Daiei Studios' much-beloved Gamera series, makes a monochrome film adaptation of the works of horror manga pioneer Kazuo Umezu (The Drifting Classroom)?

A humble-seeming family is actually a bunch of cheats and embezzlers. One by one, visitors arrive at their door with their own agendas.

When two boys are whisked off to planet Terra, Gamera must rescue them before space chicks feast on their brains and breed an army of Earth invaders.