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.

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

Haunted by bad luck, two friends learn to trust in the world again and take their destiny into their...

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

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

The Dai-bosatsu toge trilogy is based on Kaizan Nakazato's unfinished long series of novels (41 book...

Kon Ichikawa's retelling of the classic true story of Samurai honor. When a young clan lord is force...

Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to become a ...

After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Ky...

A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal...

A ruthless pack of thugs force mild-mannered, caught-in-the-middle-of-something-bigger Nami to murde...

At Sakurada Gate in 1860, the shogun’s chief minister and his retinue of bodyguards are ambushed and...

Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four fol...

Zatoichi comes upon a dying man who asks him to give a bag of money to "Taichi". Zatoichi has no ide...

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

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

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

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...

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...