Wrath of Daimajin (1966)

Summary: In a mountainous region of Japan, Lord Arakawa kidnaps the men of nearby villages to use as slave labor, producing gunpowder from his sulfur pits. A band of young boys decide to rescue their enslaved fathers on their own.

Genre: Fantasy

Director: Kazuo Mori

Writer: Tetsurô Yoshida

Runtime: 1 h 27 min

MPAA: Not Rated

Production: Toho Company, Daiei Studios

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

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Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades (1972)

Summary: Ogami Itto volunteers to be tortured by the yakuza to save a prostitute and is hired by their leader to kill an evil chamberlain.

Release Date: September 02, 1972

Genres: Action, Drama

Director: Kenji Misumi

Writers: Kazuo Koike

, Goseki Kojima

Runtime: 1 h 29 min

MPAA: R

Production: Katsu Production, Toho Company, Toho

Distributor: Columbia Pictures, JA Video, AnimEigo

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Star of David: Beautiful Girl Hunter (1979)

Summary: Spurred by a fascination with Holocaust atrocities and his rapist biological father, a wealthy student secretly abducts and subjects women to acts of sexual torture.

Release Date: October 27, 1979

Genres: Drama, Thriller, Horror

Director: Norifumi Suzuki

Writers: Atsushi Yamatoya

, Masaaki Satô

Runtime: 1 h 40 min

MPAA: Unrated

Production: Nikkatsu

Distributor: Discotek Media, Impulse Pictures

Country: Japan

Language: Japanese

Karate for Life (1977)

Summary: This movie is based on the true life story of a Korean fighter named Choi Bae-dal (who later changed his name to Masutatsu Oyama), the founder of Kyokushin Karate in Japan.

Release Date: May 14, 1977

Genres: Action, Drama, Biography

Director: Kazuhiko Yamaguchi