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.

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

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...

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...

An fantasy/action short about a SWAT Samurai team entering a spirit world to rescue a lost captain.

Well before “Shogun” as warring clans were fighting for power throughout Japan, a Portuguese vessel ...

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...

"Tsubaki Sanjuro" is a remake of Sanjuro (1962) by Akira Kurosawa. Sanjuro returns with sharper, fas...

In 18th century Japan, when a blind woman's father is killed by a young samurai avenging his own fat...

Before he was a protector, Kenshin was a fearsome assassin known as Battosai. But when he meets gent...

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

Momotaro carries this sword into battle against injustice in shogunate Japan. Aided by ninja he must...

A nameless gunfighter arrives in a town ripped apart by rival gangs and, though courted by both to j...

Ichibei is assigned by Shogun Tokugawa to prevent the sale of a Dutch ships-load of rifles to the ho...

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

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