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.

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

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

A samurai's path leads him to a young waitress whose hometown was destroyed by a dragon. He doesn't ...

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...

During the latter days of the Tokugawa Era, the tensions rise between the 'royalists' and those stru...

This is a standalone movie, based on the long-running television series about Shogun Yoshimune. Whe...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

A young woman, institutionalized by her abusive stepfather, retreats into a vivid fantasy world wher...

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

Ryunosuke, a gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate rule, ha...

Zatoichi is a blind massage therapist and swordsman who finds out that something troubling is taking...