Against the backdrop of the Edo treasury devaluing currency and driving many into poverty, Hanzo Itami enforces the law without regard to status. He shows inadequate respect to the treasurer, who wants him dead.

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, whic...

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

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 ...

A historical scroll depicting the story of the tragic fate of the young samurai Minamoto Yoshitsune,...

At the end of the Heian period, Musashibo Benkei, a warrior monk who hated the Heike clan, was humil...

Follow the infamous ninja bandit named Ishikawa Goemon (Yosuke Eguchi) in an epic story. One night w...

In Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving not...

Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four fol...

Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to become a ...

After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Ky...

A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal...

Inspector General Kanjuro Sano conspires with the future shogun twin brother. They replace Ieyoshi T...

The 21-year-old feudal on Sendai, Tsunamune Date, was prohibited to go out in the daytime for his mi...

Warlord Oda Nobunaga seeks to unite a fractured Japan. A young man trained in the arts of ninjitsu i...

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

Momotaro carries this sword into battle against injustice in shogunate Japan. Aided by ninja he must...

With a mixture of drama, warlords, battles, love, tragedy all set with great music, this made for te...

Two rogue vagrants make their living as "manure men", turning the waste from the tenement toilets in...

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