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.

"Tsubaki Sanjuro" is a remake of Sanjuro (1962) by Akira Kurosawa. Sanjuro returns with sharper, fas...

The third part of the series of films based on the Japanese epic novel Nanso Satomi Hakkenden by Kyo...

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...

During the reign of the eighth shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate, the Yunagaya Domain in the Tohoku r...

Ichibei is assigned by Shogun Tokugawa to prevent the sale of a Dutch ships-load of rifles to the ho...

Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors ar...

During the Sengoku period, an army relentlessly lays siege to a castle, but they will need the head ...

In a poor district of Edo lives a young samurai named Soza. He has been sent by his clan to avenge t...

A look at the relationship between a young blind samurai and his wife, who will make a sacrifice in ...

In the Edo period, a nameless ronin accepts an assignment to go to a mountain pass and wait. Near th...

Ogami Itto battles a group of female ninja in the employ of the Yagyu clan and must eliminate a trai...

Ichi is a blind entertainer that travels the countryside with her traditional Japanese guitar and wa...

Ryunosuke, a gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate rule, ha...

Against the backdrop of the Edo treasury devaluing currency and driving many into poverty, Hanzo Ita...

Hanzo extracts a confession from a ghost using his assaulting methods, foils thieves, connects with ...

A werewolf samurai walks the countryside, finding himself in the middle of a village of monsters who...

One rainy night in the Edo period, Kotono (a geisha) confronts samurais who killed her father. The s...

Kotani Zenzaemon, a ronin who has a side job making brushes in a tenement house in the back alley, i...

The adventures of a blind, gambling masseur and master swordsman. Zatoichi targets a yakuza-controll...