Kihachi Okamoto Collection - 4 Movies (DVD)

Discs are in mint condition. Some colour fade on the back of the box.

Kill!
In this deadpan parody of Japan's then-popular samurai film genre, Genta (Tatsuya Nakadai) puts down his samurai sword to become a freelance criminal. Meanwhile, Hanjiro (Etsushi Takahashi) is a poor struggling farmer who yearns for the power and respect being a samurai would bring him. Entering a sleepy village where a civil war is raging within the local ruling clan due to the machinations of the wily Ayuzama (Shigeru Kôyama), the pair of swordsmen must choose sides and fight.

Red Lion
A samurai becomes a pawn in a political power struggle when he's sent to announce the emperor's latest tax cuts.

Sword of Doom
Merciless swordsman Ryunosuke Tsukue (Tatsuya Nakadai) is a government assassin in feudal Japan who has no remorse and no moral code. When he is scheduled to participate in a friendly fencing contest, he ends up killing his competitor. Next, after a fight with his own mistress, he murders her and deserts their infant son. Later, while spending the night in a haunted geisha house, he sees the specters of all of his victims and spirals into madness, leaving a bloodbath in his wake.

Samurai Assassin
A samurai joins a band of revolutionaries who intend to kill an official who favors opening Japan to foreigners.