Sonny Chiba

Takuma Tsurugi, the tough-as-nails, badass mercenary, refuses to kidnap a beautiful heiress but instead goes to war with the mobsters after her.

The villain is called Amakusa Shiro Tokaisada. He is actually based on a real christian samurai. The movie was one of the inspirations for the game called 'Samurai Shodown' (actual spelling)

Sonny Chiba is back! This time, he is hired by the mob to execute a respected karate master by ripping out his vocal cords. When he later refuses, Tsurugi is put on the death list himself.

Based on a popular manga by "Buronson" (creator of Fist of the North Star), Doberman Cop follows the fish-out-of-water adventures of Joji Kano (Chiba), a tough-as-nails police officer from Okinawa who arrives in Tokyo's Kabuki-cho nightlife district to investigate the savage murder and mutilation of an island girl who had been working as a prostitute. Initially dismissed as a country bumpkin (complete with straw hat and live pig in tow!), Kano soon proves himself a more savvy detective than the local cops, and a tougher customer than anyone expected. As he probes deeper into the sleazy world of flesh-peddling, talent agency corruption and mob influence, Kano uncovers the shocking truth about the girl, her connection to a yakuza-turned-music manager (Hiroki Matsukata), and a savage serial killer who is burning women alive.

A professional assassin and a Hong Kong detective both pursue a crime lord who has connections to an international drug trafficking conspiracy.

When the Earth is threatened by an evil alien, a group of UN scientists travels to the lost city of Atlantis, where they unearth a superhuman mummy.

No one can stop Tsurugi's fists of fury after mobsters double-crossed him and murder his girlfriend!

The son of a murder crime boss exacts his revenge by pitting two rival clans against each other and saving his sister from an elite trafficking ring.

After being forced to stand back and stay out of the spotlight, a band of ninjas remerges after a group of violent ninjas threatens their town.

Chiba exacts his revenge for the setup that sent him to prison by attacking Asao Uchida's lonely, clifftop mansion in a no-holds barred massacre.

Shinichi Sonny Chiba is WOLFGUY, the only survivor of a clan of werewolves who relies on his feral, full-moon-activated superpowers to solve mysterious crimes.

The international super agent and karate master comes under the employ of a wealthy widow in need of protection from all corners of the heroin racket.

This last installment of a trilogy based on the life of Korean fighter Masutatsu Oyama follows his adventures in the Okinawa pro wrestling world.

Two reporters covering torpedo tests investigate the sighting of an underwater creature and soon become prisoners of fish-men in an underwater city.

After serving jail time for all the violent acts he has committed, Kiba takes up a job as a bodyguard at a notorious gangster club.

Determined to track down the vicious drug lord who killed his master, a martial arts disciple teams up with an undercover cop to seek revenge.

Clumsy alien invaders from Neptune are thwarted by mysterious hero Space Chief and a nondescript group of microshort-wearing Japanese kids.

On a high-speed train carrying 1,500 people, a madman demanding a $5 million ransom plants a bomb that will detonate if the speed drops below 50 mph.

When his beloved boss is murdered, a dangerous young yakuza cuts a path of vengeance directly through two clans of the Japanese mafia.

Following the massive success of the 1978 movie version, this TV series is newly produced by returning faces such as Director Kinji Fukasaku and actors Shinichi Sonny Chiba and Kinnosuke Yorozuya. After the death of the second Tokugawa shogun Hidetada, his sons Iemitsu and Tadanaga shed family blood over the succession of the dynasty...