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...

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

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

Japan blossomed into its Renaissance at approximately the same time as Europe. Unlike the West, it f...

The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, wh...

Tough contract killers and secret organizations operating worldwide in a murderous battle for a reli...

In 1701, Lord Takuminokami Asano has a feud with Lord Kira and he tries to kill Kira in the corridor...

Japan, 1137. The Taira family, a samurai clan, becomes involved in the disputes between Emperor Toba...

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

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

A group of ruthless gangsters, an unknown woman and an escaped convict have met, in The Forest of Re...
The legendary tale of the forty-seven samurai and their mission to avenge the death of their master.

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

Follows the final days of the shogunate and Shinsengumi's Vice-Comander Hijikata Toshizo along with ...

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

Ichibei is assigned by Shogun Tokugawa to prevent the sale of a Dutch ships-load of rifles to the ho...

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

Pursued by formidable Chinese assassins, young Kotaro and his dog run into No Name, a mysterious str...

Raised suckling poison arrows among the sparring Iga ninja factions, Mumon is a carefree 16th-centur...