The second Bounty Hunter film, when master killer Shikoro Ichibei takes up the cause of a group of farmers being driven to despair by the vile Lord Ozeki. The villainous lord has driven them to mounting their last stand at a deserted fort against an army of attackers. Wakayama Tomisaburo is superb as an expert in killing and military tactics, who leaves his medical practice at a clinic for the poor in order to counter the vicious tactics of that vile lord.
Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan w...
Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifull...
Fearless Edo-period police inspector Hanzo Itami, nicknamed The Razor, has developed his own unique ...
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 warrior-in-training and his bumbling friends go in pursuit of a stolen sword.
Afro Samurai avenged his father and found a life of peace. But the legendary master is forced back i...
Set at the end of the Sengoku period to early Edo period, "Sanada Ten Braves" follows 10 members of ...
Izo is an assassin in the service of a Tosa lord and Imperial supporter. After killing dozens of the...
Fewer samurai films are being made, and the Uzumasa studio has fallen on hard times. One day, vetera...
Pursued by formidable Chinese assassins, young Kotaro and his dog run into No Name, a mysterious str...
The man is chased by losing the beauty and preciousness of love and the foundation of life without o...
A compilation film of the Thorny Arc, episodes 43–46 in the second season, featuring additional foot...
In the third entry into this mega-hit series, Isshin Tasuke, a spirited fishmonger in Edo who looks ...
Kanichiro Yoshimura is a Samurai and Family man who can no longer support his wife and children on t...
Young swordsman, Tsukigata Hanpeita, longs for the day when rival clans cease their struggles for po...
Taisuke is kind-hearted but overall lacks ambition. Taizo is smarter, but given to fits of emotion a...
Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemp...