Fewer samurai films are being made, and the Uzumasa studio has fallen on hard times. One day, veteran "kirareyaku" (whose job it is to be felled with a sword by a film's star) actor Kamiyama is tasked with teaching sword action techniques to fledgling actress Satsuki. A few years later, the now-retired Kamiyama is visited by Satsuki, who has become a popular star.

In 18th century Japan, when a blind woman's father is killed by a young samurai avenging his own fat...

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

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

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

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

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...

25 years later after the events of Samurai Cop (1991), Detective Frank Washington is forced to team ...

The womanizing master of a run-down dojo hires an unemployed samurai to make himself look good inste...

The secret warriors of feudal Japan were the ninja. Sent on impossible missions, the ninja were trai...

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

The third movie following the exploits of bounty hunter Shikoro Ichibei. The theft of almost a half ...

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...

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

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

In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers...

Afro Samurai avenged his father and found a life of peace. But the legendary master is forced back i...

A semi-biographical account of Yip Man, the first martial arts master to teach the Chinese martial a...

Getting an opportunity to meet with another half-Caucasian swordsman, Kyoshiro finds himself involve...