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.

Izo, a Ronin, and Raiden, an orc, work to bring a young elf girl and the wand she carries to the lan...

Fewer samurai films are being made, and the Uzumasa studio has fallen on hard times. One day, vetera...

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

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...

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

During the reign of Shogun Hidetada, both Hirate Musashi and Okamoto Musashi strive to become the fi...

During the Edo period, a gifted swordsman was exiled from his clan when he questioned the misconduct...

Two young swordsmen, Akado Suzunosuke and Tatsumaki Rainoshin, arrive at the city of Edo in their qu...

Tough contract killers and secret organizations operating worldwide in a murderous battle for a reli...

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

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

Even though Gennosuke and Oboro are from rival ninja villages, they are secretly in love. At an annu...

A yakuza boss hires Goemon Ishikawa, a modern day samurai, to protect him aboard his cruise ship cas...

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...

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

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