Wandering swordsman Kanbei, parading through town with a sign that reads "Seeking fights, selling my life cheap." One day, he receives a request from the star of the daughter's kabuki, Nakamura Tsurukichi. However, unable to bear seeing a face reminiscent of his first love, he disappears as soon as the task is completed. But later, Tsurukichi returns to ask Kanbei for help once again...

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

The second part of an entertaining historical drama depicting the eventful story of the revenge of a...

The final, third part of an entertaining historical drama depicting the eventful story of the reveng...

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

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

The third part of the series of films based on the Japanese epic novel Nanso Satomi Hakkenden by Kyo...

Raised suckling poison arrows among the sparring Iga ninja factions, Mumon is a carefree 16th-centur...

Kakizaki Yuji’s period film is not like the jidaigeki films we are used to. While it deals with them...

A man is brutally murdered and his famed shamisen (a three-stringed musical instrument) called the "...

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

Takahagi Sutegoro is highly skilled at casing locations for thieves so that he can sell detailed flo...

Japan's greatest jidaigeki star, Mifune Toshiro is Shogun's Advisor Okubo Hikozaemon who must be coa...

A samurai is struggling to make ends meet at the end of the Edo period. He has students and, among o...

A retired samurai must redeem himself for a crime that he committed earlier in his life.

Legendary swordplay filmmaker Hideo Gosha's Sword of the Beast chronicles the flight of the low-leve...

Based on a short story written by Shuhei Fujisawa (who also wrote Twilight Samurai, The Hidden Blade...

TAJOMARU is the famous 'bandit' of the forest from RASHOMON. Whoever kills Tajomaru inherits his nam...

A young girl, Okimi, falls in love with Kiritaro, a handsome thief disguised as a wealthy young mast...

Late in the 1500s, an aging tea master teaches the way of tea to a headstrong Shogun. Through force ...

Kon Ichikawa's retelling of the classic true story of Samurai honor. When a young clan lord is force...