Sanae Kitabayashi

'Based' on the true story of the founder of "Shôrinji kenpô" in Japan. Doshin Soh, a double agent during WWII in Manchuria (where he learns the art of Shao Lin), returns to a defeated Japan full of corruption, crime and lost souls. After being arrested for beating up a group of American G.I.'s, he escapes and retreats to the country to start his own martial arts school. While helping to mend the shattered lives of his countrymen, he also runs afoul of the Yakuza...

A 1969 Japanese drama

Tarao's services are called upon to solve the mysterious death of bride-to-be, Mariko, who was found dead with an eerie mask of a devil.

Part 4 in a long-running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short-tempered, amoral, but not evil chinpira (Bunta Sugawara and Tamio Kawachi) thinking too big of themselves. Sugawara tries to overcome the traumatic experience of getting in bed blindfolded with a girl who turned out to be an old granny. Later he and Kawaji try to settle down in a neighbourhood harassed by businessman yakuza Bin Amatsu.