TAJOMARU is the famous 'bandit' of the forest from RASHOMON. Whoever kills Tajomaru inherits his name, status and sword. A royal brother leaves his kingdom to protect the princess he loves, only to find a series of harrowing adventures along the way which lead him back to where he came from, and then disinheriting his past to become the bandit TAJOMARU.

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Before he was a protector, Kenshin was a fearsome assassin known as Battosai. But when he meets gent...

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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...

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

The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. The husband ...

When his mother's untimely death quickly follows his father's, a doctor begins to believe a killer m...

Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and an ag...

With a mixture of drama, warlords, battles, love, tragedy all set with great music, this made for te...

The 21-year-old feudal on Sendai, Tsunamune Date, was prohibited to go out in the daytime for his mi...

A remake of High Noon (1952) as a Japanese jidai-geki sword-fighting movie.

Two rogue vagrants make their living as "manure men", turning the waste from the tenement toilets in...

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

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

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

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In Kyoto, a samurai named Boredom Otoko, Saotome Mondonosuke , appears and helps a woman being chase...

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

Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersona...