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.

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

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

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

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...

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

Raised suckling poison arrows among the sparring Iga ninja factions, Mumon is a carefree 16th-centur...
The legendary tale of the forty-seven samurai and their mission to avenge the death of their master.

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

Saotome, a sword master and guard of the Shogunate, pursues the mystery of a deadly aerial weapon th...

A group of ruthless gangsters, an unknown woman and an escaped convict have met, in The Forest of Re...

Two seriously wounded samurai find refuge from a storm at an isolated temple, the home of a swordsma...

In war-torn Japan, the Tokugawa Shogun, desperate to restore peace to his people, orders the assassi...

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

A naively honorable samurai comes to the bitter realization that his devotion to moral samurai princ...

Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersona...

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

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

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