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

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25 years later after the events of Samurai Cop (1991), Detective Frank Washington is forced to team ...

The womanizing master of a run-down dojo hires an unemployed samurai to make himself look good inste...

Charts the troubled teenage years of students Yūichi Hasumi and Shūsuke Hoshino, exploring the shift...

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Returning to the village where a year before he had killed Hirate, a much-admired opponent, Zatoichi...

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