This is the second installment of the trilogy based on Japan’s greatest novel “The Great Bodhisattva Pass”, following the life and times of bloodthirsty samurai, Tsukue Ryunosuke. Blinded in an explosion and further injured from a fall, the master swordsman is taken in by Otoyo, a woman who falls in love with him. Under Otoyo’s dedicated care, Ryunosuke’s physical and emotional wounds seem to heal. However, deep inside, the demons that drive him to kill yearn to resurface. Meanwhile he is being pursued by Utsugi Hyoma, a young samurai seeking to avenge his brother’s death at Tsukue’s hands. Hyoma is being aided along the way by the clever thief Shichibei.
The story concerns the efforts of seven master swordsman who join together to protect the new inexpe...
Reprising his role from the popular TV series "Koya no Suronin" (The Lowly Ronin), Mifune Toshiro s...
Reprising his role from the popular TV series "Koya no Suronin" (The Lowly Ronin), Mifune Toshiro s...
The secret map of the treasure of Kenzan was stolen out of the house of a former soldier in Awa. A f...
Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, "Rashomon" is perhaps the fines...
Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, whic...
The first film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass.
The second film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass.
Historical drama about two samurai who fight over everything yet unite together to fight an evil lor...
A film about the struggle of an officer from Edo, Toyama Saemon, with a lightning-fast gang of thiev...
The final film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass.
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...
A warrior-in-training and his bumbling friends go in pursuit of a stolen sword.
Even though Gennosuke and Oboro are from rival ninja villages, they are secretly in love. At an annu...
A sage travels to the past and collects a set of eight legendary swords, which bring to life a gang ...
The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. The husband ...
Iwane Sakazaki returns to his homeland and gets caught in the middle of an incident that results in ...
In a maelstrom of evil, can a new magistrate, samurai Mochizuki Koheita, with a reputation like an a...
In an era where aliens have invaded and taken over feudal Tokyo, a young samurai finds work however ...