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.

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

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

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

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

Kanichiro Yoshimura is a Samurai and Family man who can no longer support his wife and children on t...

Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemp...

The secret warriors of feudal Japan were the ninja. Sent on impossible missions, the ninja were trai...

The second Bounty Hunter film, when master killer Shikoro Ichibei takes up the cause of a group of f...

A jidaigeki film on Banzuiin Chōbei produced in 1940 and directed by Yasuki Chiba.

This is the story of Kaori Kawabuchi, a samurai sword performer, singer and motion capture actor. An...

With a mixture of drama, warlords, battles, love, tragedy all set with great music, this made for te...

Before he was a protector, Kenshin was a fearsome assassin known as Battosai. But when he meets gent...

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

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

When 11 of her friends are raped and murdered, leaving the Samurai Princess (Aino Kishi) the only su...

During the 1880's a young swordsman, Saotome Gengo, on his way to Tokyo stops at an inn in a small t...

A giant stone statue comes to life to protect the residents of a small town against the depradations...

At Sakurada Gate in 1860, the shogun’s chief minister and his retinue of bodyguards are ambushed and...

In Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving not...

Before Tokugawa Yoshimune, known as the "Ravage Shogun", was the lord of the Kishu domain, before he...