Shinjirô Asano

Zatoichi is mistaken for a thief. To clear his name he must find and defeat the real villain. Spiffy. (imdb)

This classic Japanese horror movie directed by Nobuo Nakagawa is based on an 18th-century masterpiece written by Nanboku Tsuruya. It is about a woman who haunts her husband after she dies a miserable death. (imdb)

When the Shogun's elderly Finance Minister cuts off the allowance of one of the Shogun's widowed daughters to help avert a financial crisis, she responds by sending assassins after him. Kyoshiro befriends the old man and defends him, earning himself the enmity of the vengeful princess as well.

During a time when Christians were severely persecuted in Japan, a dying Christian man begs Kyoshiro to protect a saint who is in hiding. In doing so he encounters resistance from a group of opium smugglers and learns much about his own shadowy past.

Gen, a former ninja with a price on his head travels about Japan seeking the identity of the mysterious “Kagekubo” leader of his former group who issued a death warrant on him for desertion. (KG & me)