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.

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

Set in war-torn 15th century Kyoto, on the eve of the Onin War, the movie centers on a band of outla...

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

Ginga is a simple—yet energetic—country girl, living with her father far from the capital city of th...

A blind man seeks revenge against the psychopath who took away his sight and slaughtered his wife an...
The story of Dangonosuke, a boy samurai rescuing a woman from a villain, is told comically.

Impressionistic silent short film (also known as ‘Kaze. Ippun yonjûbyô’) created by 17-year-old high...

A samurai is struggling to make ends meet at the end of the Edo period. He has students and, among o...

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...

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

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

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

A group of ruthless gangsters, an unknown woman and an escaped convict have met, in The Forest of Re...

The 40th and final "Tengu Kurama" feature starring Kanjuro Arashi.

During the latter part of the 16th Century, Japan's Warring States era was coming to a close. After ...

Matauemon Araki (Kotaro Satomi) is a sword teacher in Yamatokoriyama. He heard from his brother-in-l...

This is the story of Kaori Kawabuchi, a samurai sword performer, singer and motion capture actor. An...

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

Wandering swordsman Kanbei, parading through town with a sign that reads "Seeking fights, selling my...