Shogun Assassin is a jidaigeki film made for the British and American markets and released in 1980.

A young student named Liu Yude is drawn by his activist teacher into the local rebellion against the Manchu government.

In the year 1844 of the Edo Period, as the Tokugawa Shogunate is in decline, the sadistic Lord Matsudaira Naritsugu of Akashi rapes, tortures, mutilates and murders nobles and commoners at will.

Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival (座頭市あばれ火祭り) is a 1970 Japanese Chambara film directed by Kenji Misumi and starring Shintaro Katsu, who also produced and co-wrote the script.

In 1874, a deathly-ill woman named Sayo gives birth to a baby girl in a women's prison.

Set in Japan during an unspecified year of the Edo period, Ogami Ittō, disgraced former executioner, or Kogi Kaishakunin, to the shōgun, wanders the countryside, pushing a baby cart with his 3-year-old son Daigoro inside.

Oyuki, a tattooed female assassin – the renegade member of a daimyō's personal bodyguard detail – is killing every man that is sent up against her.

Ogami Ittō, the disgraced former shōgun's executioner or Kogi Kaishakunin, is traveling by river on a boat with his young son Daigoro floating behind in the baby cart.

On his travels on "the Demon Path in Hell", Ogami Itto is confronted by a series of five messengers who represent a clan wanting his services.

In the middle of a rainstorm, Ichi overhears a man being killed by a group and then dragged off into the brush.