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.
One rainy night in the Edo period, Kotono (a geisha) confronts samurais who killed her father. The s...
A group of travelers is stranded in a small country inn when the river floods during heavy rains. As...
Ogami Itto battles a group of female ninja in the employ of the Yagyu clan and must eliminate a trai...
Bored Hatamoto film #16.
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...
As a result of illness and unemployment, Yamaoka Tatewaki, a "Hatamoto" (or direct vassal of the Sho...
Fearless Edo-period police inspector Hanzo Itami, nicknamed The Razor, has developed his own unique ...
Against the backdrop of the Edo treasury devaluing currency and driving many into poverty, Hanzo Ita...
Hanzo extracts a confession from a ghost using his assaulting methods, foils thieves, connects with ...
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...
Hyakkimaru, a warrior on a quest to reclaim 48 of his body parts which were each taken by a demon, i...
Returning to the village where a year before he had killed Hirate, a much-admired opponent, Zatoichi...
This historical film depicts the life of a man who was at the mercy of the waves during transition f...
D, a legendary dhampir competes with a motley family of bounty hunters to track down Charlotte Elbou...
A yakuza boss hires Goemon Ishikawa, a modern day samurai, to protect him aboard his cruise ship cas...
The adventures of a blind, gambling masseur and master swordsman. Zatoichi targets a yakuza-controll...
The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, wh...
Ryunosuke, a gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate rule, ha...