Shikoro Ichibei the Bounty Hunter

Number of Movies: 3

Overview

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.

Featured Cast

Tomisaburō Wakayama

Shikoro Ichibei

Minoru Ōki

Kanoke Tatsu

Shigeru Amachi

Azami Yajuro

Tatsuo Endō

Hirutoku

Kenji Imai

Yashi Okami

Taketoshi Naitō

Noro Jinnai

Asao Uchida

Hotta Bungo

3 Movies

Killer's Mission

August 13, 1969

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

December 13, 1969

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

December 16, 1972

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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