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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A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival ...
In the year 995, due to a secret talk between Michinaga Fujiwara (Akira Emoto) and Seimei Abe (Terun...
A cowardly samurai is sent as an official executioner targeting the clan's former sword instructor, ...
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Izo is an assassin in the service of a Tosa lord and Imperial supporter. After killing dozens of the...
Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century....
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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...
The secret warriors of feudal Japan were the ninja. Sent on impossible missions, the ninja were trai...
A story of revenge between two samurai families on the Igagoe Road. Araki Mataemon born in the provi...
In 1879, Kenshin and his allies face their strongest enemy yet: his former brother-in-law Enishi Yuk...
Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifull...
A warrior-in-training and his bumbling friends go in pursuit of a stolen sword.
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In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers...