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.

A samurai's path leads him to a young waitress whose hometown was destroyed by a dragon. He doesn't ...

The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, wh...

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

A group of ruthless gangsters, an unknown woman and an escaped convict have met, in The Forest of Re...

Near the end of the shogunate in Japan, Katsura Shogoro and his fellow samurai from the southwestern...

In the turbulent last days of the Edo period, Kawai Tsugunosuke, a Japanese samurai serving the Maki...

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

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...

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

The adventures of a blind, gambling masseur and master swordsman. Zatoichi targets a yakuza-controll...

Returning to the village where a year before he had killed Hirate, a much-admired opponent, Zatoichi...

Takahagi Sutegoro is highly skilled at casing locations for thieves so that he can sell detailed flo...

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

Wishing to find peace, Zatoichi travels to his old village but only finds trouble when he ends up in...

After arriving in the town of Shimonita, Ichi finds that a price has been put on his head by a local...

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

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

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

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