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...

Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided ...

Fifth movie in the Hissatsu (Sure Death!) Series. At the behest of a corrupt bureaucrat, a mysterio...

The first part of an entertaining historical drama depicting the eventful story of the revenge of an...

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

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

In the turbulent last days of the Edo period, Kawai Tsugunosuke, a Japanese samurai serving the Maki...

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

A daughter is constantly overshadowed by her famous father, but she is determined to make her own ma...

Having put down his sword and given up the will to fight, the masterless samurai Iemon lives in soli...

In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mot...

It's three years after the events of the original Battle Royale, and Shuya Nanahara is now an intern...

A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island, where they struggle each day to irrigat...

Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who pred...

Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed w...

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for ...

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