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.

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As a result of illness and unemployment, Yamaoka Tatewaki, a "Hatamoto" (or direct vassal of the Sho...

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

Two seriously wounded samurai find refuge from a storm at an isolated temple, the home of a swordsma...

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Near the end of the shogunate in Japan, Katsura Shogoro and his fellow samurai from the southwestern...

In the turbulent last days of the Edo period, Kawai Tsugunosuke, a Japanese samurai serving the Maki...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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