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.

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

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

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

A man is brutally murdered and his famed shamisen (a three-stringed musical instrument) called the "...

A lone gambler tries to keep a yakuza family from taking over a festival in Kitakyushu. After away f...

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

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival ...

Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersona...

When an artist dies, the official cause of death is judged to be a stroke, but his daughter suspects...

The third part of the series of films based on the Japanese epic novel Nanso Satomi Hakkenden by Kyo...
The legendary tale of the forty-seven samurai and their mission to avenge the death of their master.

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...

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

During the Sengoku period, an army relentlessly lays siege to a castle, but they will need the head ...

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

Naosuke, a servant of Okajima Yasoemon, devoted himself to his master. One day, his master Okajima ...

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

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