A naively honorable samurai comes to the bitter realization that his devotion to moral samurai principles makes him an oddity among his peers, and a very vulnerable oddity in consequence. He takes the blame for the misdeeds of others, with the understanding that he will be exiled for one year and restored to the clan's good graces after the political situation dies down. As betrayal begins to heap upon betrayal, he realizes he'll have to live out his life as a ronin, if not hunted down and killed.

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...

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

Haunted by bad luck, two friends learn to trust in the world again and take their destiny into their...

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

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

The ever versatile Kazuki Kitamura stars as masterless samurai Kyutaro Madarame, a feared swordsman ...

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

The Shinsengumi is a special unit of ronin commissioned by the Tokugawa shogunate to counter anti-sh...

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...

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

Momotaro carries this sword into battle against injustice in shogunate Japan. Aided by ninja he must...

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

Pursued by formidable Chinese assassins, young Kotaro and his dog run into No Name, a mysterious str...

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

In the Sengoku period, a woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of ...

The war against the Tokugawa Shogunate ended years ago. But there are some who are not happy with th...

Ichi travels to the village of Itakura to pay his respects at the grave of Kichizo, a man he killed ...

Can a sinful man change and find peace? It's unlikely in gang-plagued Japan. Jokichi of Mikogami, a ...