In 16th century Japan, a young man has to choose between becoming a master steel maker like his father and grandfather before him, or becoming a samurai so that he can help protect his village from attacks by the various clans which want the high-quality steel made there.

Warlord Oda Nobunaga seeks to unite a fractured Japan. A young man trained in the arts of ninjitsu i...

Kon Ichikawa's retelling of the classic true story of Samurai honor. When a young clan lord is force...

Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and an ag...

When his mother's untimely death quickly follows his father's, a doctor begins to believe a killer m...

Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four fol...

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

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

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...

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

A historical scroll depicting the story of the tragic fate of the young samurai Minamoto Yoshitsune,...

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

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

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

As a result of illness and unemployment, Yamaoka Tatewaki, a "Hatamoto" (or direct vassal of the Sho...

Raised suckling poison arrows among the sparring Iga ninja factions, Mumon is a carefree 16th-centur...
The legendary tale of the forty-seven samurai and their mission to avenge the death of their master.

Saotome, a sword master and guard of the Shogunate, pursues the mystery of a deadly aerial weapon th...

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