Kumazou, a "cleaner" for hire, encounters a woman attempting to commit suicide with her two young siblings one night. Kumazou gives them all the money he has and saves them from jumping off a bridge. The next morning, he wakes up to find that the woman and her sons have invaded his home and settled in…

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

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

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

The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, wh...

Kohei Akiyama, a popular master swordsman, and his son Daijiro live in the town of Edo in good faith...

Kohei Akiyama, a popular master swordsman, and his son Daijiro live in the town of Edo in good faith...

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

Against the backdrop of the Edo treasury devaluing currency and driving many into poverty, Hanzo Ita...

Hanzo extracts a confession from a ghost using his assaulting methods, foils thieves, connects with ...

The secret warriors of feudal Japan were the ninja. Sent on impossible missions, the ninja were trai...

During the Sengoku period, an army relentlessly lays siege to a castle, but they will need the head ...

Kotani Zenzaemon, a ronin who has a side job making brushes in a tenement house in the back alley, i...

Kanichiro Yoshimura is a Samurai and Family man who can no longer support his wife and children on t...

Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemp...

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

When master swordsman Mikogami Genshiro of the Ono fencing school returns to find that his ailing se...

A group of travelers is stranded in a small country inn when the river floods during heavy rains. As...

In 1908, Director/Producer Shozo Makino (father of Japanese cinema) directed and produced the first...

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...