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 ronin desperately seeks a way out of financial straits; he allies with the Tosa clan under the rut...

Following the death of the second Tokugawa shogun, it is revealed that he was poisoned by retainers ...

In the mist of the warring age (Sengoku Era), the Kyushu based Hayato Clan is faced with a monumenta...

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...

Young lord investigates the mysterious death that takes place in the underworld.

A nameless gunfighter arrives in a town ripped apart by rival gangs and, though courted by both to j...

A young lord solves the mystery of multiple murders involving a young couple and a woman.

Takahashi Hideki stars as Muyonosuke, the one-eyed ronin who makes his living as a bounty hunter who...

Saotome Mondonosuke is Hatamoto (a high-class warrior who is allowed to see the Shogun in person) wh...

Isozoemon (Go Kato) was a ronin (masterless samurai) and broke, who lived in a Choya (cheap apartmen...

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

Izo is an assassin in the service of a Tosa lord and Imperial supporter. After killing dozens of the...

Toma (Go Kato) is a son of a doctor in Takane, Yoshitomo Monzen. He was ordered by the sick federal ...

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

In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a ...

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

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

A period comedy set at the end of the Sengoku Period about Sasuke Saruhi, a middle-aged ninja.