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.

Japan blossomed into its Renaissance at approximately the same time as Europe. Unlike the West, it f...

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

Having put down his sword and given up the will to fight, the masterless samurai Iemon lives in soli...

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

The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, wh...

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

Kohei Akiyama, a popular master swordsman, and his son Daijiro live in the town of Edo in good faith...

Near the end of the shogunate in Japan, Katsura Shogoro and his fellow samurai from the southwestern...

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

Kohei Akiyama, a popular master swordsman, and his son Daijiro live in the town of Edo in good faith...

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

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

Pursued by formidable Chinese assassins, young Kotaro and his dog run into No Name, a mysterious str...

The story of Ryoma Sakamoto, considered to be the architect behind the downfall of the Tokugawa shog...

Hanzo extracts a confession from a ghost using his assaulting methods, foils thieves, connects with ...

One rainy night in the Edo period, Kotono (a geisha) confronts samurais who killed her father. The s...

Getting an opportunity to meet with another half-Caucasian swordsman, Kyoshiro finds himself involve...