Shikoro Ichibei the Bounty Hunter
Three films about Japan's top bounty hunter, Shikoro Ichibei. He is a doctor and spy-for-hire who is sent on secret missions against enemies of the shogun.
Killer's Mission
1969
6.6
Japanese
賞金稼ぎ
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...
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The Fort of Death
1969
6.6
Japanese
五人の賞金稼ぎ
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.
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Eight Men to Kill
1972
6.7
Japanese
賞金首 一瞬八人斬り
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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