Baian Fujieda, an assassin for hire, got an unusual job from his usual fixer to end up with an unexpected twist of destiny from the past.

Slevin is mistakenly put in the middle of a personal war between the city’s biggest criminal bosses....

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

Léon, the top hit man in New York, has earned a rep as an effective "cleaner". But when his next-doo...

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

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...

William has failed to kill himself so many times that he outsources his suicide to aging assassin Le...

A renowned ophthalmologist is desperate to cut off an adulterous relationship…which ends up in murde...

Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan w...

Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifull...

This is the story of Kaori Kawabuchi, a samurai sword performer, singer and motion capture actor. An...

A jidaigeki film on Banzuiin Chōbei produced in 1940 and directed by Yasuki Chiba.

A frustrated man decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets one of his fam...

A period mystery in which an unconventional priest exposes the truth behind the bizarre death of a m...

A psychologist, an Englishman, a bellboy and a wounded female assasin have their fates crossed at a ...

A naively honorable samurai comes to the bitter realization that his devotion to moral samurai princ...

Lady Snowblood is caught by the police and sentenced to death for her crimes. As she is sent to the ...

An overworked career woman leaves her life in the city for an island vacation only to encounter ecce...

On a quiet street in Helsinki, Sachie has opened a diner featuring rice balls. For a month she has n...

An epidemic is spreading through the towns of Edo – it spreads via people, and if you get the fever,...

Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert...