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.

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...

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

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

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

Amagi Goe, based on Seicho Matsumoto's novel, has created numerous stars through its visualizations....

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

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

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

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

It is a historical drama that follows Katsu Kaishu's efforts to surrender Edo Castle bloodlessly in ...
Among the many famous 16th-century samurai who made the leap from myth and ukiyo-e to early cinema s...

Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who pred...

Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed w...

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

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

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

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

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