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...

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

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

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

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

The Bride unwaveringly continues on her roaring rampage of revenge against the band of assassins who...
Among the many famous 16th-century samurai who made the leap from myth and ukiyo-e to early cinema s...

Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who pred...

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

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

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

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

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

Takahagi Sutegoro is highly skilled at casing locations for thieves so that he can sell detailed flo...

Drama set in the historical Warring States Era of Japan. Tokaido name Imagawa Yoshimoto personally l...

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

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

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

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