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.

Raised suckling poison arrows among the sparring Iga ninja factions, Mumon is a carefree 16th-centur...

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

A samurai's path leads him to a young waitress whose hometown was destroyed by a dragon. He doesn't ...

A samurai returns to his homeland after a three year absence and finds his fiance is now one of the ...

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

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

Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifull...

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

Even though Gennosuke and Oboro are from rival ninja villages, they are secretly in love. At an annu...
The legendary tale of the forty-seven samurai and their mission to avenge the death of their master.

A giant stone statue comes to life to protect the residents of a small town against the depradations...

The adventures of a blind, gambling masseur and master swordsman. Zatoichi targets a yakuza-controll...

Returning to the village where a year before he had killed Hirate, a much-admired opponent, Zatoichi...

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

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...

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

The third movie following the exploits of bounty hunter Shikoro Ichibei. The theft of almost a half ...

Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century....

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