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.

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

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

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

Kotani Zenzaemon, a ronin who has a side job making brushes in a tenement house in the back alley, i...

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

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...

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

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

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

25 years later after the events of Samurai Cop (1991), Detective Frank Washington is forced to team ...

The womanizing master of a run-down dojo hires an unemployed samurai to make himself look good inste...


The year is 1805. Napoleon ruled Europe. Ienari is the 11th Tokugawa Shogun. An incident, which was ...

Ryunosuke, a gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate rule, ha...

A nameless gunfighter arrives in a town ripped apart by rival gangs and, though courted by both to j...

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

Well before “Shogun” as warring clans were fighting for power throughout Japan, a Portuguese vessel ...

In the last days of the Tokugawa shogunate, there was a cute warrior, Souji Okita, who belonged to t...

Ogami Itto battles a group of female ninja in the employ of the Yagyu clan and must eliminate a trai...