The first film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass.

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

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

This historical film depicts the life of a man who was at the mercy of the waves during transition f...

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...

Set at the end of the Sengoku period to early Edo period, "Sanada Ten Braves" follows 10 members of ...

Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice gam...

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

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

Kenji and Shintaro, once esteemed as the castle town's best Samurai, were anticipated to become the ...

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

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

A warrior-in-training and his bumbling friends go in pursuit of a stolen sword.

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

Two young swordsmen, Akado Suzunosuke and Tatsumaki Rainoshin, arrive at the city of Edo in their qu...

In the turbulent last days of the Edo period, Kawai Tsugunosuke, a Japanese samurai serving the Maki...

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival ...

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

Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifull...

Young swordsman, Tsukigata Hanpeita, longs for the day when rival clans cease their struggles for po...