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

The third part of the series of films based on the Japanese epic novel Nanso Satomi Hakkenden by Kyo...

Bushido - the way of the warrior - is a Japanese philosophy with a moral code followed by samurai. B...

A man is brutally murdered and his famed shamisen (a three-stringed musical instrument) called the "...

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

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

When master swordsman Mikogami Genshiro of the Ono fencing school returns to find that his ailing se...

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

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

Older, wiser but still a wandering loner, the blind, peace-loving masseur Ichi seeks a peaceful life...

Late in the 1500s, an aging tea master teaches the way of tea to a headstrong Shogun. Through force ...

The secret map of the treasure of Kenzan was stolen out of the house of a former soldier in Awa. A f...

Zatoichi treks to a village that has always been a favorite spot of his, only to discover that it’s ...

When he was young, Hasegawa Hirakawa was taken care of by the daughter of an izakaya, who wanted to ...
Mondosuke ventures alone into the land of Nagasaki. There, he encounters young lady named Kinue, the...
The Satsuma clan conspires with key figures in the shogunate to overthrow the government. However, t...
One night, Sawatari Shusui saves a geisha named Osode from a ninja attack. Osode's mother is said...
Sawatari Shusui saved Princess Hiroko of the Konoe family, who was about to be married to Tokugawa...
Sawatari Shusui was told about 7,000 ryo of buried gold by Osuke, who claimed to be a princess of th...
The great merchant of Kaga Daitokuya , had taken control of the domain with his wealth and by holdin...