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...

During the reign of Shogun Hidetada, both Hirate Musashi and Okamoto Musashi strive to become the fi...

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

Enter The Dragon Gate and prepare for a pulse pounding journey into the nether regions of the mind a...

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...

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

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

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

Even though Gennosuke and Oboro are from rival ninja villages, they are secretly in love. At an annu...

During the latter part of the 16th Century, Japan's Warring States era was coming to a close. After ...

Set in war-torn 15th century Kyoto, on the eve of the Onin War, the movie centers on a band of outla...

A young boy takes interest in piano while his family begins to disintegrate around him after his fat...

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...

In this film, Hibari plays a dual role as brother and sister. The story involves a journey to Hanaga...

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

The advertising director of Pacific Pharmaceuticals, frustrated with the low ratings of their sponso...

Journalists Ichiro Sakai and Junko cover the wreckage of a typhoon when an enormous egg is found and...

Based on a real-life story, this drama focuses on a small group of Allied soldiers in Burma who are ...