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.

The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. The husband ...

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

In Edo Japan, a kabuki actor seeks revenge against the three men who drove his parents to their deat...

A yakuza boss hires Goemon Ishikawa, a modern day samurai, to protect him aboard his cruise ship cas...

Izo, a Ronin, and Raiden, an orc, work to bring a young elf girl and the wand she carries to the lan...

As a result of illness and unemployment, Yamaoka Tatewaki, a "Hatamoto" (or direct vassal of the Sho...

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

Even though Gennosuke and Oboro are from rival ninja villages, they are secretly in love. At an annu...

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

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

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

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...

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, whic...

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