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.

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

The Dai-bosatsu toge trilogy is based on Kaizan Nakazato's unfinished long series of novels (41 book...

A remake of High Noon (1952) as a Japanese jidai-geki sword-fighting movie.

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

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

A group of travelers is stranded in a small country inn when the river floods during heavy rains. As...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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