Filmography from Kazuo Koike

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Shogun Assassin, Robert Houston, Kenji Misumi, 1980
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...

Kozure Ôkami: Jigoku e ikuzo! Daigorô, Yoshiyuki Kuroda, 1974
The final film, and the final confrontation between Ogami and Retsudo. With most of his family already dead at Ogami's hands, Retsudo launches one last plot to destroy him, and when that fails, unleashes the fury of every remaining member of the Yagyu Clan....

Shurayukihime: Urami renka, Toshiya Fujita, 1974
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....

Kozure Ôkami: Meifumadô, Kenji Misumi, 1973
Fifth film in the Lone Wolf & Cub Series. 5 warriors challenge Ogami to duels. Each has 1/5th of Ogami's assassin fee and 1/5 of the information he needs to complete his assassination. His mission is to kill a mad Daimyo before he destroys his clan!...

Shurayukihime, Toshiya Fujita, 1973
Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals. These criminals kidnap and brutalize her mother but leave her alive. Later her mother ends up in prison with only revenge to keep her alive. She creates an instrument for this revenge by purposefully getting pregnant. Though she dies in childbirth, she makes sure that the child will be raised as an assassin to kill the criminals who destroyed her...

Goyôkiba: Kamisori Hanzô jigoku zeme, Yasuzô Masumura, 1973
Against the backdrop of the Edo treasury devaluing currency and driving many into poverty, Hanzo Itami enforces the law without regard to status. He shows inadequate respect to the treasurer, who wants him dead. He finds a young woman dead following an abortion, and he enters a temple without permission looking for evidence. He tortures and then sexually assaults the temple's priestess to get information. He's then assigned to protect the mint...

Kozure Ôkami: Shinikazeni mukau ubaguruma, Kenji Misumi, 1972
In the third film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto volunteers to be tortured by Yakuza to save a prostitute and is hired by their leader to kill an evil chamberlain. ...

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....

Kozure Ôkami: Ko wo kashi ude kashi tsukamatsuru, Kenji Misumi, 1972
In this first film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, adapted from the manga by Kazuo Koike, we are told the story of the Lone Wolf and Cub's origin. Ogami Itto, the official Shogunate executioner, has been framed for disloyalty to the Shogunate by the Yagyu clan, against whom he now is waging a one-man war, along with his infant son, Daigoro....

Kozure Ôkami: Sanzu no kawa no ubaguruma, Kenji Misumi, 1972
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....

Kozure okami, Kôjirô Fujioka (1 episode, 2004), Yoshihiro Tomabechi (1 episode, 2004), 0
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Goyôkiba, Kenji Misumi, 0
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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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