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.

A remake of High Noon (1952) as a Japanese jidai-geki sword-fighting movie.

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

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...

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

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

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

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 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...

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

Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice gam...
The legendary tale of the forty-seven samurai and their mission to avenge the death of their master.

The Bride unwaveringly continues on her roaring rampage of revenge against the band of assassins who...

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

Takahagi Sutegoro is highly skilled at casing locations for thieves so that he can sell detailed flo...