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 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...

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

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

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

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

In war-torn Japan, the Tokugawa Shogun, desperate to restore peace to his people, orders the assassi...

Two seriously wounded samurai find refuge from a storm at an isolated temple, the home of a swordsma...

Raised suckling poison arrows among the sparring Iga ninja factions, Mumon is a carefree 16th-centur...

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

A group of men stalk a trans woman at night, unbeknownst to them that she's the master of a martial ...
Among the many famous 16th-century samurai who made the leap from myth and ukiyo-e to early cinema s...

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...

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

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