As Part I opens, Jubei (Denjiro Okochi), the best of sea skippers, is unable to overcome the stormy seas of Luzon. All hands on board the Kannonmaru were lost except for Shinkei, who alone made his way to land & eventually home to inform his grandson Jiromaru (Kinnosuke Nakamura) that his father Jubei met with disaster. Young Jiromaru tells his grandfather that he doesn't want to be a skipper like his father, but wants to go to Kyoto and become a samurai…

Wishing to find peace, Zatoichi travels to his old village but only finds trouble when he ends up in...

After arriving in the town of Shimonita, Ichi finds that a price has been put on his head by a local...

The fate of Tokugawa’s world hangs in the balance as Yagyu Jubei is sent on a mission to discover wh...

Having put down his sword and given up the will to fight, the masterless samurai Iemon lives in soli...

While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who...

At the crowded Komatsuya in Kawadome, travellers are holding a secret art contest to relieve boredom...

Ichi is a blind entertainer that travels the countryside with her traditional Japanese guitar and wa...

The story of Ryoma Sakamoto, considered to be the architect behind the downfall of the Tokugawa shog...

Zatoichi is sworn to protect the life of a young girl and without any real allies finds himself in t...

Ogami Itto battles a group of female ninja in the employ of the Yagyu clan and must eliminate a trai...

The adventures of a blind, gambling masseur and master swordsman. Zatoichi targets a yakuza-controll...

Returning to the village where a year before he had killed Hirate, a much-admired opponent, Zatoichi...

In this film, Hibari plays a dual role as brother and sister. The story involves a journey to Hanaga...

In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers...

Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice gam...

In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a ...

Official Shogunate executioner Ogami Itto has been framed for disloyalty to the Shogunate by the Yag...

Ogami Itto volunteers to be tortured by Yakuza in order to save a prostitute and is hired by their l...

Ogami Itto is hired to kill a tattooed female assassin and battles Retsudo, head of the Yagyu clan, ...

Ogami Itto is challenged by a quintet of warriors, each armed with one fifth of Ogami's assassin fee...