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.

As a result of illness and unemployment, Yamaoka Tatewaki, a "Hatamoto" (or direct vassal of the Sho...

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

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

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

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, whic...

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

A samurai returns to his homeland after a three year absence and finds his fiance is now one of the ...

A warrior-in-training and his bumbling friends go in pursuit of a stolen sword.

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

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

Left for dead by her rich and powerful stepmother, Snow White is taken in by a team of assassins who...

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

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

Shinsuke Inaba, a thief who snuck into the Kishu family residence in Edo. He was almost discovered b...

The film adaptation of the novel "Three Little Rats" by Tatsuro Jinde. In this fascinating story, th...

The second film about the adventures of Chosichiro Matsudaira. This time he fights against conspirat...

A jidaigeki film on Banzuiin Chōbei produced in 1940 and directed by Yasuki Chiba.

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

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