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.

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

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

Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century....

In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers...

Afro Samurai avenged his father and found a life of peace. But the legendary master is forced back i...

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

Kanichiro Yoshimura is a Samurai and Family man who can no longer support his wife and children on t...

Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemp...

Ichibei is assigned by Shogun Tokugawa to prevent the sale of a Dutch ships-load of rifles to the ho...

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

A group of travelers is stranded in a small country inn when the river floods during heavy rains. As...

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

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

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

A group of men stalk a trans woman at night, unbeknownst to them that she's the master of a martial ...

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

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

One samurai is ordered to kill another by their master in punishment.

Izo is an assassin in the service of a Tosa lord and Imperial supporter. After killing dozens of the...

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