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.

Warlords Kagetora and Takeda each wish to prevent the other from gaining hegemony in feudal Japan. T...

Zatoichi treks to a village that has always been a favorite spot of his, only to discover that it’s ...

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

Tough contract killers and secret organizations operating worldwide in a murderous battle for a reli...

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...

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

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...

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

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

Izo, a Ronin, and Raiden, an orc, work to bring a young elf girl and the wand she carries to the lan...

The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, wh...

During the Edo period, a gifted swordsman was exiled from his clan when he questioned the misconduct...

During the reign of Shogun Hidetada, both Hirate Musashi and Okamoto Musashi strive to become the fi...

A group of men stalk a trans woman at night, unbeknownst to them that she's the master of a martial ...

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

Well before “Shogun” as warring clans were fighting for power throughout Japan, a Portuguese vessel ...

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 ...