DVD: Chitose Kobayashi ... (nikkatsu zatoichi eclipse)

DVD: Chitose Kobayashi ...

DVD:

Sleepy Eyes of Death - The Chinese Jade [VHS]
Raizô Ichikawa, Tamao Nakamura

E1 Entertainment, 1997

The Chinese Jade holds the key to the mystery surrounding the rivalry between two bitter clans, but young Nemuri Kyoshiro must interview a dead man to find it! First in the SLEEPY EYES OF DEATH series. Includes graphic violence and nudity.

Eclipse Series 17: Nikkatsu Noir (The Criterion Collection)
Jô Shishido, Chitose Kobayashi

Criterion, 2009

From the mid-1950s to the early 1970s, wild, idiosyncratic crime movies were the brutal and boisterous business of Nikkatsu, the oldest film studion in Japan. In an effort to attract youthful audiences growing increasingly accustomed to American and French big-screen imports, Nikkatsu began producing action potboilers (mukokuseki akushun, or borderless action) modeled on the western, comedy, gangster, and teen-rebel genres. This bruised and ...

Zatoichi the Blind Swordsman, Vol. 3 - New Tale of Zatoichi
Shintarô Katsu, Mikiko Tsubouchi

Home Vision Entertainment, 2002

With more killer swordsmanship, romance and action packed drama, the Blind Swordsman is back in the first color episode of the Zatoichi series. Masseur Ichi returns to his home village to discover that the teacher who trained him has been hiring out his skills with the sword to a ruthless gang of kidnappers. Meanwhile the mentor’s sister offers herself in marriage to our hero who must decline on account of his many enemies and the danger ...