Summary
Ichibei is assigned by Shogun Tokugawa to prevent the sale of a Dutch ships-load of rifles to the hostile Shogun Satsuma. On his mission he meets a cowardly Ronin who becomes his assistant, as well as a female spy and a female warrior...
Details
Release Date: August 13, 1969
Runtime: 90 minutes
Genres: Action
Original Language: JA
Rating: ⭐ 6.6/10 (9 votes)
Shikoro Ichibei the Bounty Hunter

Killer's Mission
Ichibei is assigned by Shogun Tokugawa to prevent the sale of a Dutch ships-load of rifles to the hostile Shogun Satsuma. On his mission he meets a cowardly Ronin who becomes his assistant, as well as a female spy and a female warrior...

The Fort of Death
The second Bounty Hunter film, when master killer Shikoro Ichibei takes up the cause of a group of farmers being driven to despair by the vile Lord Ozeki. The villainous lord has driven them to mounting their last stand at a deserted fort against an army of attackers. Wakayama Tomisaburo is superb as an expert in killing and military tactics, who leaves his medical practice at a clinic for the poor in order to counter the vicious tactics of that vile lord.

Eight Men to Kill
The third movie following the exploits of bounty hunter Shikoro Ichibei. The theft of almost a half ton of gold from the shogunate's official mine threatens to bankrupt the government of Japan. Despite a desperate search the gold has not been found, causing officials of the Tokugawa bakufu to call on their most skillful secret agent, Shikoro Ichibei.
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Cast

Tomisaburō Wakayama
Shikoro Ichibei

Yumiko Nogawa
Kagero

Tomoko Mayama
Akane

Jūkei Fujioka

Kenji Ushio

Kōji Sekiyama

Osman Yusuf
Captain Segal

Akira Shioji

Gorō Mutsumi
Yotoji

Bin Amatsu
Okiteyama Nikaido

Masaya Takahashi

Jun Usami
Makino Bungo

Masao Mishima

Koji Tsuruta
Shogun Ieshige

Chiezō Kataoka
Ijiun Ukyo

Takuzō Kawatani
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