Date Mosui, a young samurai, one day gets a scolding from a nameless ronin that sets him thinking about what life is all about and his ways of living. His frined, Ando Kichinosuke, is alarmed at Mosui's despondency and invites him to his house as his little sister Tsuyu and he try to cheer him up.

Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who pred...
Among the many famous 16th-century samurai who made the leap from myth and ukiyo-e to early cinema s...

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

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

Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifull...

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

Kanichiro Yoshimura is a Samurai and Family man who can no longer support his wife and children on t...

Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemp...

Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century....

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

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

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...

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

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

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...

A yakuza boss hires Goemon Ishikawa, a modern day samurai, to protect him aboard his cruise ship cas...

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

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

During the Edo period, a gifted swordsman was exiled from his clan when he questioned the misconduct...