After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu waits for him, yet he has come not for her but to challenge the leader of the region's finest school of fencing. To prove his valor and skill, he walks deliberately into ambushes set up by the school's followers.

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

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

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, whic...

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...

Young Lord Genjiro, who abandoned his castle to live as a commoner in Edo, returns home to restore p...

In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a ...

It is a historical drama that follows Katsu Kaishu's efforts to surrender Edo Castle bloodlessly in ...

A man witnesses a fatal traffic accident on his way home from work, and the victim is clearly killed...

Yashima is a woman who works as a plumber. She is also uncomfortable with her own sexuality. One day...

Japan, 1785. Jūzaburō, a famous thief who refuses to kill innocent people, is betrayed, ambushed, an...

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

A warrior-in-training and his bumbling friends go in pursuit of a stolen sword.

The second Bounty Hunter film, when master killer Shikoro Ichibei takes up the cause of a group of f...

Kohei Akiyama, a popular master swordsman, and his son Daijiro live in the town of Edo in good faith...

Kohei Akiyama, a popular master swordsman, and his son Daijiro live in the town of Edo in good faith...

Taking place thirty years before the events of Ringu, Ringu 0 provides the shocking background story...

As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a re...

Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan w...

Seven years after the death of his wife, widower Shigeharu seeks advice on how to find a new wife fr...