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 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...

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

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

In Kyoto, a samurai named Boredom Otoko, Saotome Mondonosuke , appears and helps a woman being chase...

A samurai returns to his homeland after a three year absence and finds his fiance is now one of the ...
The legendary tale of the forty-seven samurai and their mission to avenge the death of their master.

Saotome, a sword master and guard of the Shogunate, pursues the mystery of a deadly aerial weapon th...

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

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...

The year is 1805. Napoleon ruled Europe. Ienari is the 11th Tokugawa Shogun. An incident, which was ...

In 1604, Miyamoto Musashi attacked the Yoshioka family at their dojo and defeated master Seijūrō and...

The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. The husband ...

In Edo Japan, a kabuki actor seeks revenge against the three men who drove his parents to their deat...

Before he was a protector, Kenshin was a fearsome assassin known as Battosai. But when he meets gent...

A giant stone statue comes to life to protect the residents of a small town against the depradations...

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