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.

Inspector General Kanjuro Sano conspires with the future shogun twin brother. They replace Ieyoshi T...

Set in 19th Century Japan a young samurai who finds himself in love with a farm girl leaves his home...

Following the death of the second Tokugawa shogun, it is revealed that he was poisoned by retainers ...

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

Young swordsman, Tsukigata Hanpeita, longs for the day when rival clans cease their struggles for po...

The adventures of Aoi Shingo continue. Shingo is finally given permission to officially meet his fat...

Taisuke is kind-hearted but overall lacks ambition. Taizo is smarter, but given to fits of emotion a...

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...

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...

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

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

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

Two young swordsmen, Akado Suzunosuke and Tatsumaki Rainoshin, arrive at the city of Edo in their qu...

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

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