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.

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

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

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 ...

Fifth movie in the Hissatsu (Sure Death!) Series. At the behest of a corrupt bureaucrat, a mysterio...

In the turbulent last days of the Edo period, Kawai Tsugunosuke, a Japanese samurai serving the Maki...

Sen no Rikyu (Ebizo Ichikawa) is the son of a fish shop owner. Sen no Rikyu then studies tea and eve...

Even though Gennosuke and Oboro are from rival ninja villages, they are secretly in love. At an annu...

Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersona...

A master swordsman is ordered to go undercover on a mission to find and destroy a cannon factory bei...

Japan, 1785. Jūzaburō, a famous thief who refuses to kill innocent people, is betrayed, ambushed, an...
The legendary tale of the forty-seven samurai and their mission to avenge the death of their master.

A samurai's path leads him to a young waitress whose hometown was destroyed by a dragon. He doesn't ...

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

The ever versatile Kazuki Kitamura stars as masterless samurai Kyutaro Madarame, a feared swordsman ...

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival ...

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