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.

During the latter days of the Tokugawa Era, the tensions rise between the 'royalists' and those stru...

This is a standalone movie, based on the long-running television series about Shogun Yoshimune. Whe...

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

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

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

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...

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

A master swordsman is ordered to go undercover on a mission to find and destroy a cannon factory bei...

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

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

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...

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...

One samurai is ordered to kill another by their master in punishment.

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

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