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.
Ryotatsu, the wayward Priest blinded by Shinkai, the Wicked Priest, has his own story in this ultra-...
Heizo's cousin Senemon Misawa and his son Katsuzo visited Heizo's home. Heizo learns that Senemon ha...
Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, "Rashomon" is perhaps the fines...
Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, whic...
Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice gam...
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 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...
Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifull...
A young girl is raised as a killer in the Yanbian province of China. She hides her identity and trav...
In 1879, Kenshin and his allies face their strongest enemy yet: his former brother-in-law Enishi Yuk...
In an era where aliens have invaded and taken over feudal Tokyo, a young samurai finds work however ...
From resting trees, to violent waters, to blood splattered in the dirt. A wanderer searches for tran...
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...
After the assassination of Tokyo's Governor by Yakuza members, the CIA bureau chief (William Atherto...
Zatoichi is a blind massage therapist and swordsman who finds out that something troubling is taking...