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.

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

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

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...

The government in Edo era is suffering from a financial crisis. It hires "Kage" to provoke the colla...

The story is divided in three portions. The Kamen Rider Wizard portion, Kamen Rider Wizard: The Prom...

The Color Print of Edo is a 1939 black and white Japanese silent film with benshi accompaniment dire...

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

Drama set in the historical Warring States Era of Japan. Tokaido name Imagawa Yoshimoto personally l...

Having put down his sword and given up the will to fight, the masterless samurai Iemon lives in soli...

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

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

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

Takahagi Sutegoro is highly skilled at casing locations for thieves so that he can sell detailed flo...

A man is brutally murdered and his famed shamisen (a three-stringed musical instrument) called the "...

The news that the fifth Shogun Tsunayoshi was seriously ill caused a fierce struggle for the post of...

Japan, 1785. Jūzaburō, a famous thief who refuses to kill innocent people, is betrayed, ambushed, an...

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

Japan's greatest jidaigeki star, Mifune Toshiro is Shogun's Advisor Okubo Hikozaemon who must be coa...

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