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.

Saotome, a sword master and guard of the Shogunate, pursues the mystery of a deadly aerial weapon th...
Among the many famous 16th-century samurai who made the leap from myth and ukiyo-e to early cinema s...

Tough contract killers and secret organizations operating worldwide in a murderous battle for a reli...

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...

Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who pred...

Izo, a Ronin, and Raiden, an orc, work to bring a young elf girl and the wand she carries to the lan...
The legendary tale of the forty-seven samurai and their mission to avenge the death of their master.

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

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

Drama set in the historical Warring States Era of Japan. Tokaido name Imagawa Yoshimoto personally l...

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...

Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice gam...

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

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

The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, wh...

Two assassins are hired to carry out a hit on the second wife of a candle merchant, but someone is w...

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