Live Action Starting With 'Z'

A humble masseur and gambler, Zatoichi wanders the countryside of Japan, going from town to town plying his trade and rolling the dice. With a kind heart and lethal sword skills, he is protector of the innocent and the ruin of wicked men. Contains episodes 14-26.

A threat is uttered, a blade is drawn, a flash of cold steel and then... A dozen attackers now lie silent, dispatched by the lightening sword of one blind man: Zatoichi. A humble masseur and gambler, Zatoichi wanders the countryside of early Japan, going from town to town plying his trade and rolling the dice. With a kind heart and lethal sword skill, he is protector of the innocent and the ruin of wicked men.

A threat is uttered, a blade is drawn, a flash of cold steel and then ... a dozen attackers lay dead, dispatched by the lightening sword of one blind man: Zatoichi. A humble masseur and gambler, Zatoichi wanders from town to town plying his trade and rolling the dice. With kind heart and lethal sword skill, he is protector of the innocent and the ruin of wicked men.

In a town where women are bought and sold, Zatoichi stumbles upon a secret organization headed by Yamikubo, the Dark Imperial Lord. The "Boss of Bosses," blind like Zatoichi, takes an interest in the masseur, guiding him on the path of destiny and the duty of the sightless. However, a chance encounter with two beautiful women might be the end of Zatoichi, as both a jealous husband and the town Yakuza wants his head!

The Queen has stolen Zebraman's powers and instituted Zebra Time: ten horrifying minutes each day when murder is legal! Without his super strength, Zebraman is just a guy with a mane - a broken-down hero unable to stop the onslaught of evil. Before he can take a bite out of the bad guys, Zebraman must find the young girl who holds the secret to regaining his ass-kicking powers and prove, once and for all, that a hero never changes his stripes!

A down-and-out school teacher receives the calling to become the real life personification of an old television superhero, Zebraman. He gets more then he could ever wish for when his black-and-white dressed alter-ego seems to be the only thing standing between absolute evil and a happy ending.

Shinichi is a second-rate third-grade teacher who gets no respect from his family and little from his students. It seems that in 1978 he fell in love with a TV super hero named Zebraman that was cancelled shortly after airing. The show was set in 2010 so this year he sews himself a makeshift Zebraman costume and slinks around the city at night. His harmless escapism becomes reality when he runs into a half-crab half-man enemy of the same TV show and begins to realize the stories of Zebraman and his strange alien enemies were actually prophecy.

A vicious space-outlaw, Zeiram, has escaped to earth, and has been followed by the attractive female bounty hunter Iria, and her assistant, Bob (a computer). When she sets a dimensional trap so she can fight the monster without raising the awareness of the earthlings, two power company employees accidentally stumble into the trap, too. Iria now has to save the earthmen and defeat the monster before her Dimensional trap closes on them all forever.

Two hapless electricians go out for an ordinary job but soon find themselves in a virtual reality war zone. Iria, a cute, tough-as-nails bounty hunter is battling Zeiram, a seemingly indestructible alien genetically engineered to kill. The electricians do their best to help Iria take on Zeiram in this epic adventure only to be caught in another struggle years later when an android trainee of Iria's has a Zeiram unit implanted inside it.

During the dark ages of ancient China, warlords battled for land and wealth, and justice and morality are lost. Princess Ling (Michelle Reis from Swordsman Two) and her two generals Ching (Cynthia Khan) and Lau (Waise Lee) must escape from the rebel clan bent on bringing the kingdom down. With stunning action sequences choreographed by legendary Shaw Brother martial artist Phillip Kwok, Zen of Sword is a masterful swordplay fantasy.

Talented young martial artist Megumi wrestles with the guilt of her bullied sister's suicide while joining her friends on a journey deep into the woods. There they encounter the nefarious Dr. Tanaka, who conducts gruesome experiments on the living dead. Later, as Dr. Tanaka attempts to make Megumi and friends his latest test subjects, the desperate young woman uses the dual power of karate and flatulence in order to defeat her demented captor.