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...

In this film, Hibari plays a dual role as brother and sister. The story involves a journey to Hanaga...

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

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

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

Saotome Mondonosuke is Hatamoto (a high-class warrior who is allowed to see the Shogun in person) wh...

Toma (Go Kato) is a son of a doctor in Takane, Yoshitomo Monzen. He was ordered by the sick federal ...

In a poor district of Edo lives a young samurai named Soza. He has been sent by his clan to avenge t...

A look at the relationship between a young blind samurai and his wife, who will make a sacrifice in ...

In the Edo period, a nameless ronin accepts an assignment to go to a mountain pass and wait. Near th...

An epidemic is spreading through the towns of Edo – it spreads via people, and if you get the fever,...

A young woman, institutionalized by her abusive stepfather, retreats into a vivid fantasy world wher...

Before he was a protector, Kenshin was a fearsome assassin known as Battosai. But when he meets gent...

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

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

A warrior-in-training and his bumbling friends go in pursuit of a stolen sword.

During the reign of the eighth shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate, the Yunagaya Domain in the Tohoku r...

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

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

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