Two stubborn Samurai fight a meaningless battle for a woman's hand. Treachery, murder and lost honour are unleashed in the course of a magic year in which summer turns to autumn, autumn to winter, and winter to spring. Neither has any intention of giving in to the other no matter how foul the weather.

Wounded Civil War soldier John Dunbar tries to commit suicide—and becomes a hero instead. As a rewar...

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

A yakuza boss hires Goemon Ishikawa, a modern day samurai, to protect him aboard his cruise ship cas...

After her husband deserts her, working-class mother Ray Eddy is in great need of money to find a hom...

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

A mountain man who wishes to live the life of a hermit becomes the unwilling object of a long vendet...

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

The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, wh...

In the beginning of the 19th century, Johannes Elias Alder is born in a small village in the Austria...

Arriving in Chicago, Henry moves in with ex-con acquaintance Otis and starts schooling him in the wa...

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

Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifull...

Grady is a 50-ish English professor who hasn't had a thing published in years—not since he wrote his...

Captivated by the lure of sudden wealth, the quiet rural lives of two brothers erupt into conflicts ...

A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery...

Yuri leaves Ryo with mysterious words. Ryo goes to Hokkaido knowing that his doppelganger magician i...

A master swordsman is ordered to go undercover on a mission to find and destroy a cannon factory bei...

On an otherwise quiet night there is a startling knock at the door. Andrew Tucker answers the door t...

Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century....

An unprecedented epidemic of rabies is breaking out in the taiga. Infected wolves become more and mo...