The best Shin Kishida’s action movies

Shin Kishida

Shin Kishida

17/10/1939- 28/12/1982
Today we present the best Shin Kishida’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Shin Kishida’s movies.
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Shogun Assassin

Shogun Assassin
7.3/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 11/11/1980
  • Character: Master of Death
A Shogun who grew paranoid as he became senile sent his ninjas to kill his samurai. They failed but did kill the samurai’s wife. The samurai swore to avenge the death of his wife and roams the countryside with his toddler son in search of vengeance.

Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla

Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla
6.2/10
An Okinawan prophecy that foretells the destruction of the Earth is seeming fulfilled when Godzilla emerges to return to his destructive roots. But not all is what it seems after Godzilla breaks his ally Anguirus's jaw. Matters are further complicated when a second Godzilla emerges, revealing the doppelgänger as a mechanical weapon.

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx
7.9/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 22/04/1972
  • Character: Kuruma Hidari
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.

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril
7.5/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 30/12/1972
  • Character: Enki Kozuka
In the fourth film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto is hired to kill a tattooed female assassin and battles Retsudo, head of the Yagyu clan, and his son Gunbei.

Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance

Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance
6.3/10
Lady Snowblood is caught by the police and sentenced to death for her crimes. As she is sent to the gallows she is rescued by the secret police who offer her a deal to assassinate some revolutionaries.

Taiyo Sentai Sun Vulcan: The Movie

Taiyo Sentai Sun Vulcan: The Movie
6.1/10
A Sun Vulcan movie was released on July 18, 1981 at the Toei Manga Festival. It takes place some time after episode 23. In it Black Magma decides to separate Hiba from his teammates while plotting to blow up Tokyo with hidden bombs.

Red Lion

Red Lion
6.9/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 10/10/1969
  • Character: Secretary Sokichi
Impersonating an Imperial Army officer by wearing a "red lion's mane", a poor servant returns to his village after 10 years of absence to end the village's suffering caused by corrupt officials.

Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo

Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo
7/10
With a price on his head, Ichi seeks tranquillity in a favorite village. Since his last visit, it has fallen prey to Boss Masagoro, the son of a merchant rumored to have stolen gold from the shogunate. The boss has hired Yojimbo as his hard-drinking enforcer, but Yojimbo is both a spy for the shogunate, trying to find the gold, and in love with the merchant's unwilling mistress, Umeno. Ichi hires on as the merchant's masseur and buys Umeno's freedom with his employer's own money. This embarrasses Yojimbo who withdraws from a pact with Ichi to stir up trouble between father and son and their gangs. As the two sides fight, Ichi finds the gold and sets up a final set of confrontations.

G.I. Samurai

G.I. Samurai
6.4/10
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.

Hanzo the Razor: The Snare

Hanzo the Razor: The Snare
7/10
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.

Kill!

Kill!
7.4/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 22/06/1968
  • Character: Jurota Arao
A pair of down-on-their-luck swordsmen arrive in a dusty, windblown town, where they become involved in a local clan dispute. One, previously a farmer, longs to become a noble samurai. The other, a former samurai haunted by his past, prefers living anonymously with gangsters. But when both men discover the wrongdoings of the nefarious clan leader, they side with a band of rebels who are under siege at a remote mountain cabin.

Demon Spies

Demon Spies
6.4/10
  • Genre: ActionFantasy
  • Release: 09/02/1974
  • Character: Abbot Genkai
Deep in the mountains of feudal Japan, a group of children endure cruel and unorthodox training in order to become the Shogunate's most secret and deadly weapons - the Demon Spies! Their true identities are hidden - even from each other. Behind their demon masks, they are educated in the deadly arts of infiltration, espionage, assassination - and seduction! If they survive to become strong enough to kill their teachers, they will become - the Demon Spies! Sent on a suicide mission to uncover a deadly conspiracy, five inexperienced Demon Spies must infiltrate a powerful fief, discover the location of its secret arsenal, and destroy it. But Lord Shogen, the Demon Hunter, plans to brutally interrogate, ingeniously torture, and cruelly execute - the Demon Spies!

Super Gun Lady: Police Branch 82

Super Gun Lady: Police Branch 82
5.4/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 18/08/1979
  • Character: Tetsuo Ogata / Detective,Mika's Boss
Mika Hino is a sharp-shooting investigator that belongs to the infamous "Gator Branch.” When an executive board member of a trading company is accused of being involved in a bribery, Mika is assigned to keep watch over him. A few nights later her target is found dead outside of his 30 floor office building. With an apparent suicide note as evidence, local police conclude the case as a suicide. Mika’s assignment may have ended in failure, but her mission has just begun...

Murderer!

Murderer!
6.3/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 16/10/1976
A cowardly samurai is sent as an official executioner targeting the clan's former sword instructor, a man whose sword and spear skills are second to none.

The Black Hood

The Black Hood
7.1/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 03/12/1981
A horse-riding samurai fights villains.

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