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.

Saotome, a sword master and guard of the Shogunate, pursues the mystery of a deadly aerial weapon th...

During the reign of Shogun Hidetada, both Hirate Musashi and Okamoto Musashi strive to become the fi...

Tough contract killers and secret organizations operating worldwide in a murderous battle for a reli...

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

The government in Edo era is suffering from a financial crisis. It hires "Kage" to provoke the colla...

As a result of illness and unemployment, Yamaoka Tatewaki, a "Hatamoto" (or direct vassal of the Sho...

The Color Print of Edo is a 1939 black and white Japanese silent film with benshi accompaniment dire...

The news that the fifth Shogun Tsunayoshi was seriously ill caused a fierce struggle for the post of...

Japan, 1785. Jūzaburō, a famous thief who refuses to kill innocent people, is betrayed, ambushed, an...

Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who pred...

Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed w...

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

The second of a two-part ninja action series depicting the elaborate espionage campaign occurring be...

One samurai is ordered to kill another by their master in punishment.

Fewer samurai films are being made, and the Uzumasa studio has fallen on hard times. One day, vetera...

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

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

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

A samurai returns to his homeland after a three year absence and finds his fiance is now one of the ...

A jidaigeki film on Banzuiin Chōbei produced in 1940 and directed by Yasuki Chiba.