Nemuri Kyoshiro discovers a conspiracy centering around a band of disgruntled samurai wanting to avenge the death of their sensei, a political reformer that pushed for better provisions for the lower classes until he was assassinated by Shogunate agents. Their plot, to set fire to the oil refineries of two rich merchants and unleash a raging inferno that will hopefully burn down the Edo Castle.
A cowardly samurai is sent as an official executioner targeting the clan's former sword instructor, ...
Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice gam...
Set in Kyoto in the last days of the Edo Period, the bloody conflict continues between local feudal ...
The ronin, Sako Kanbei has to rescue the beautiful Princess Tsubaki from danger while young samurai ...
Barefoot and her friends decide to make a samurai movie, gather a unique cast and staff for the prod...
Furuta Oribe is ordered to become tea master under Toyotomi Hideyoshi after his teacher Sen no Rikyū...
A warrior-in-training and his bumbling friends go in pursuit of a stolen sword.
With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare's King Lear as a singular histori...
Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifull...
A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival ...
During the ultra-violent era of the downfall of the Tokugawa Shogunate one man rose above the rest w...
Japan, 1701. A group of samurai become rônin after their lord is forced to commit seppuku for assaul...
Pursued by formidable Chinese assassins, young Kotaro and his dog run into No Name, a mysterious str...
A nameless gunfighter arrives in a town ripped apart by rival gangs and, though courted by both to j...
The film tells about a young detective Zenigata Heiji who successfully solves a disgusting and unusu...
An Edo appointed official Baba must ensure the safe delivery of shogunate funds to Kyoto.
1953 jidaigeki directed by Nobuo Nakagawa of Jigoku and Ghost of Yotsuya fame.
Izo is an assassin in the service of a Tosa lord and Imperial supporter. After killing dozens of the...
Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century....
A pair of black-robed thieves who robbed many wealthy merchants in Edo one after another. One of the...