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.

Ogami Itto battles a group of female ninja in the employ of the Yagyu clan and must eliminate a trai...

Wishing to find peace, Zatoichi travels to his old village but only finds trouble when he ends up in...

After arriving in the town of Shimonita, Ichi finds that a price has been put on his head by a local...

One rainy night in the Edo period, Kotono (a geisha) confronts samurais who killed her father. The s...

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

Zatoichi comes upon a dying man who asks him to give a bag of money to "Taichi". Zatoichi has no ide...

Ryunosuke, a gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate rule, ha...

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 ...

In the Edo period, a nameless ronin accepts an assignment to go to a mountain pass and wait. Near th...

The Shinsengumi is a special unit of ronin commissioned by the Tokugawa shogunate to counter anti-sh...

Getting an opportunity to meet with another half-Caucasian swordsman, Kyoshiro finds himself involve...

A young woman, institutionalized by her abusive stepfather, retreats into a vivid fantasy world wher...

25 years later after the events of Samurai Cop (1991), Detective Frank Washington is forced to team ...

The womanizing master of a run-down dojo hires an unemployed samurai to make himself look good inste...

After the assassination of Tokyo's Governor by Yakuza members, the CIA bureau chief for Tokyo puts o...

A warrior-in-training and his bumbling friends go in pursuit of a stolen sword.

After she betrays a powerful mob boss, a woman matches wits and weaponry with a legion of killers wh...

The second Bounty Hunter film, when master killer Shikoro Ichibei takes up the cause of a group of f...

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