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Shin Kishida has 5 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 1980s.

Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell
1974
Action · Adventure

Ogami Itto battles a group of female ninja in the employ of the Yagyu clan and must eliminate a traitor who plans to sell his clan's secrets to the Shogunate.
Dir. Kenji Misumi · With Tomisaburō Wakayama, Kayo Matsuo, Minoru Ōki

Ogami Itto is hired to kill a tattooed female assassin and battles Retsudo, head of the Yagyu clan, and his son Gunbei.
Dir. Buichi Saitō · With Tomisaburō Wakayama, Yoichi Hayashi, Michi Azuma

as Interpol Agent Nanbara
An Okinawan prophecy that foretells the destruction of the Earth is seeming fulfilled when Godzilla emerges to return to his destructive roots. But not all is what it seems after Godzilla breaks his ally Anguirus's jaw. Matters are further complicated when a second Godzilla emerges, revealing the doppelgänger as a mechanical weapon.
Dir. Jun Fukuda · With Masaaki Daimon, Kazuya Aoyama, Reiko Tajima

A Shogun who grew paranoid as he became senile sent his ninjas to kill his samurai. They failed but did kill the samurai’s wife. The samurai swore to avenge the death of his wife and roams the countryside with his toddler son in search of vengeance.
Dir. Robert Houston, Kenji Misumi · With Tomisaburō Wakayama, Akihiro Tomikawa, Kayo Matsuo

as Seishiro Kikui
Lady Snowblood is caught by the police and sentenced to death for her crimes. As she is sent to the gallows she is rescued by the secret police who offer her a deal to assassinate some revolutionaries.
Dir. Toshiya Fujita · With Meiko Kaji, Yoshio Harada, Kazuko Yoshiyuki
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