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.

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

Izo is an assassin in the service of a Tosa lord and Imperial supporter. After killing dozens of the...

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

Zatoichi is a blind massage therapist and swordsman who finds out that something troubling is taking...

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

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

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

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

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

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

A group of travelers is stranded in a small country inn when the river floods during heavy rains. As...

One samurai is ordered to kill another by their master in punishment.

Getting an opportunity to meet with another half-Caucasian swordsman, Kyoshiro finds himself involve...

A samurai returns to his homeland after a three year absence and finds his fiance is now one of the ...

The adventures of a blind, gambling masseur and master swordsman. Zatoichi targets a yakuza-controll...

Returning to the village where a year before he had killed Hirate, a much-admired opponent, Zatoichi...

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

Fearless Edo-period police inspector Hanzo Itami, nicknamed The Razor, has developed his own unique ...

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