"Actor: Tatsuya Nakadai"

• The Toshiro Mifune Trilogy | DVD | (09/05/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Sword Of Doom: Tatsue (Nakadai) a man brought up to recognise only the way of the sword as the way of life finds that the art of killing is a pleasure. Ranged against him is Shimada (Mifune) who regards the use made of the sword as the manifestation of a man's spiritual state and vows to end Tatsue's spree in an era without values... Samurai Assassin: Threatened from the East and West Japan and the Tokugawa Shogunate are dangerously unstable. Lord Li Naosuke the 'Red Devil' has raised up a puppet figure to become the Shogun lemoshil. The year is 1860. Among his opposition is the Mito Clan. Undefeated they are planning his assassination. Amongst their numbers is one Niiro Tsurichiyo (Toshiro Mifune). The illegitimate son of a powerful nobleman Niiro has been brought up in a merchants household harbouring ambitions to become a samurai. A swordsman of outstanding ability a social outcast earning his living through brawling and blackmail. Now the Mito Clan suspect him of being a spy... Samurai Rebellion: Sasahara (Mifune) has spent his life as a retainer in the service of his lord. Yet when his lord seizes his daughter-in-law for his own gratification Sasahara is brought into conflict not only with his master but also his oldest friend Asano (Nakadai)...

• Zatoichi at the Fire Festival | DVD | (02/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  It is Tempo-era Japan in the nineteenth century. Zatoichi is on his travels again. They will bring him to a village where the Boss of All Bosses Yamikubo holds sway a man known as the Prince of Darkness. This is a place where women can be bought at auction... and if the bidder is unlucky enough to purchase the wife of one particular nameless samurai the commission on the sale is his life. It is a town where fate introduces Zatoichi to another blind man the Boss of All Bosses who proceeds to unravel the ways of destiny for him and illuminates the duty of the blind. Here Zatoichi teaches Umeji a boy who is a pimp the way to be a man... and nearly loses his second virginity in the process. It is back to this place that he is invited by his newfound guru the blind boss. And at this party the father of his female companion Okiyo is to take Yamikubo's place as the Boss of All Bosses. This is a party where human flesh will fuel the flames in an incandescent night where love and hate are seen to be the same thing observed from a distance by the shadowy figure of the masterless samurai.

• Ran | HD DVD | (26/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A