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.

Young Lord Genjiro, who abandoned his castle to live as a commoner in Edo, returns home to restore p...

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

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

A group of travelers is stranded in a small country inn when the river floods during heavy rains. As...

After a successful robbery leaves famed thief Lupin the Third and his partner Jigen with nothing but...

The story of Ryoma Sakamoto, considered to be the architect behind the downfall of the Tokugawa shog...

Wishing to find peace, Zatoichi travels to his old village but only finds trouble when he ends up in...

After arriving in the town of Shimonita, Ichi finds that a price has been put on his head by a local...

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

One rainy night in the Edo period, Kotono (a geisha) confronts samurais who killed her father. The s...

Ichi is a blind entertainer that travels the countryside with her traditional Japanese guitar and wa...

Ryunosuke, a gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate rule, ha...

"Tsubaki Sanjuro" is a remake of Sanjuro (1962) by Akira Kurosawa. Sanjuro returns with sharper, fas...

Japan's greatest jidaigeki star, Mifune Toshiro is Shogun's Advisor Okubo Hikozaemon who must be coa...

Ogami Itto battles a group of female ninja in the employ of the Yagyu clan and must eliminate a trai...

Against the backdrop of the Edo treasury devaluing currency and driving many into poverty, Hanzo Ita...

Hanzo extracts a confession from a ghost using his assaulting methods, foils thieves, connects with ...

A werewolf samurai walks the countryside, finding himself in the middle of a village of monsters who...

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

Fearless Edo-period police inspector Hanzo Itami, nicknamed The Razor, has developed his own unique ...