Best friends Gentaro and Sanpei become fateful enemies when Sanpei steals a secret document revealing the identity of the chosen successor to the Tokugawa Shogun. Gentaro of the Owari clan sets out to retrieve the invaluable document.

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

When an artist dies, the official cause of death is judged to be a stroke, but his daughter suspects...

Ryunosuke, a gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate rule, ha...

Ichi is a blind entertainer that travels the countryside with her traditional Japanese guitar and wa...

Ogami Itto battles a group of female ninja in the employ of the Yagyu clan and must eliminate a trai...

Kotani Zenzaemon, a ronin who has a side job making brushes in a tenement house in the back alley, i...

Zatoichi is sworn to protect the life of a young girl and without any real allies finds himself in t...

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

When master swordsman Mikogami Genshiro of the Ono fencing school returns to find that his ailing se...

Wishing to find peace, Zatoichi travels to his old village but only finds trouble when he ends up in...

After arriving in the town of Shimonita, Ichi finds that a price has been put on his head by a local...

A jidaigeki film on Banzuiin Chōbei produced in 1940 and directed by Yasuki Chiba.

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...

In 1908, Director/Producer Shozo Makino (father of Japanese cinema) directed and produced the first...

The story of Ryoma Sakamoto, considered to be the architect behind the downfall of the Tokugawa shog...

Against the backdrop of the Edo treasury devaluing currency and driving many into poverty, Hanzo Ita...

Hanzo extracts a confession from a ghost using his assaulting methods, foils thieves, connects with ...

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