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.

Kakizaki Yuji’s period film is not like the jidaigeki films we are used to. While it deals with them...

In the midst of the Siege of Osaka in the Sengoku period, a thrilling tale unfolds featuring a trio ...

A remake of High Noon (1952) as a Japanese jidai-geki sword-fighting movie.

The Dai-bosatsu toge trilogy is based on Kaizan Nakazato's unfinished long series of novels (41 book...

A rebellious ninja in 17th century Japan takes refuge with a fisherman and his family.

Two rogue vagrants make their living as "manure men", turning the waste from the tenement toilets in...

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...

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

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

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

Izo, a Ronin, and Raiden, an orc, work to bring a young elf girl and the wand she carries to the lan...

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

Fewer samurai films are being made, and the Uzumasa studio has fallen on hard times. One day, vetera...

In Edo Japan, a kabuki actor seeks revenge against the three men who drove his parents to their deat...

The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. The husband ...

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...

The Shinsengumi is a special unit of ronin commissioned by the Tokugawa shogunate to counter anti-sh...

25 years later after the events of Samurai Cop (1991), Detective Frank Washington is forced to team ...

The womanizing master of a run-down dojo hires an unemployed samurai to make himself look good inste...