Filmography from Asao Koike

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Sengoku jieitai, Kôsei Saitô, 1979
A squadron of Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers find themselves transported through time to their country's warring states era, when rival samurai clans were battling to become the supreme Shogun. The squad leader, Lt. Iba, sees this as the perfect opportunity to realize his dream of becoming the ruler of Japan. To achieve this, he teams his troops up with those of Kagatori, a samurai daimyo who also aspires to become Shogun. Are either of...

Bôryoku gai, Hideo Gosha, 1974
A first cursory look at VIOLENT STREETS makes it seem that Hideo Gosha reverted back to the programme genre pictures out of which emerged as a bonafide auteur and stylistic visionary five years earlier with bold ambitious jidaigekis like GOYOKIN and HITOKIRI, this time treading ground he never did before in his career, the yakuza picture. Looking closer it becomes obvious that VIOLENT STREETS is both. A genre picture and a stylistic exercise....

Kozure Ôkami: Oya no kokoro ko no kokoro, Buichi Saitô, 1972
Forth 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....

Tokugawa irezumi-shi: Seme jigoku, Teruo Ishii, 1969
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Kyôfu kikei ningen: Edogawa Rampo zenshû, Teruo Ishii, 1969
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Kumonosu-jô, Akira Kurosawa, 1957
A transposition of Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' to medieval Japan. After a great military victory, Lords Washizu and Miki are lost in the dense Cobweb Forest, where they meet a mysterious old woman who predicts great things for Washizu and even greater things for Miki's descendants. Once out of the forest, Washizu and Miki are immediately promoted by the Emperor. Washizu, encouraged by his ambitious wife, plots to make even more of the prophecy come...

Goyôkiba: Oni no Hanzô yawahada koban, Yoshio Inoue, 0
Follow the money. In a time of economic disaster for wage earners, Hanzo discovers a conspiracy among high officials to "borrow" gold from the shogunate's treasury and loan it out to the destitute, including impecunious samurai - exacting either interest payments or family heirlooms from the debtors. Along the way, Hanzo extracts a confession from a ghost using his assaulting methods, foils thieves, connects with Heisuke Takei a friend from his...

Kozure okami, Buichi Saitô (9 episodes, 1976), Minoru Matsushima (8 episodes, 1973-1976), Hitoshi Obuchi (3 episodes, 1976), Toshio Masuda (2 episodes, 1976), Teruo Ishii (1 episode, 1973), Makihito Takai (1 episode, 1974), Tokuzô Tanaka (1 episode, 1976), Hitoshi Ôzu (1 episode, 1976), 0
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