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.

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

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

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

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

In the turbulent last days of the Edo period, Kawai Tsugunosuke, a Japanese samurai serving the Maki...

As Japan’s Tokugawa shogunate nears the end of its rule, Edo North Magistrate Toyama no Kinsan is ca...

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

When an artist dies, the official cause of death is judged to be a stroke, but his daughter suspects...

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

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

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

In this film, Hibari plays a dual role as brother and sister. The story involves a journey to Hanaga...

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

The ever versatile Kazuki Kitamura stars as masterless samurai Kyutaro Madarame, a feared swordsman ...

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

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

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

A samurai returns to his homeland after a three year absence and finds his fiance is now one of the ...

A samurai's path leads him to a young waitress whose hometown was destroyed by a dragon. He doesn't ...