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.

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...

Japan, 1701. A group of samurai become rônin after their lord is forced to commit seppuku for assaul...

The life, adventures and exploits of warlord Date Masamune the One-eyed Dragon: his early youth as a...

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

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

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

After she betrays a powerful mob boss, a woman matches wits and weaponry with a legion of killers wh...

The second Bounty Hunter film, when master killer Shikoro Ichibei takes up the cause of a group of f...

A samurai returns to his homeland after a three year absence and finds his fiance is now one of the ...

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

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

In a poor district of Edo lives a young samurai named Soza. He has been sent by his clan to avenge t...

A look at the relationship between a young blind samurai and his wife, who will make a sacrifice in ...

In the Edo period, a nameless ronin accepts an assignment to go to a mountain pass and wait. Near th...

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

Starts off in the 15th century, with Connor McLeod training with another immortal swordsman, the Jap...

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

Raised suckling poison arrows among the sparring Iga ninja factions, Mumon is a carefree 16th-centur...

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