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.

In 1701, Lord Takuminokami Asano has a feud with Lord Kira and he tries to kill Kira in the corridor...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

A nameless gunfighter arrives in a town ripped apart by rival gangs and, though courted by both to j...

Ichibei is assigned by Shogun Tokugawa to prevent the sale of a Dutch ships-load of rifles to the ho...

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

Starts off in the 15th century, with Connor McLeod training with another immortal swordsman, the Jap...

A master swordsman is ordered to go undercover on a mission to find and destroy a cannon factory bei...