Orphaned Kiku was raised at a Buddhist temple and learned theatrical arts and martial arts as a child, which were used to put on stage productions to raise money for the temple, but also to display young lads who were essentially for sale to the highest bidder. When Kiku gets fed up with how the temple uses the orphans and wants to leave he gets accused of a double murder and has to flee for his life and liberty.

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

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

When an artist dies, the official cause of death is judged to be a stroke, but his daughter suspects...

A lone gambler tries to keep a yakuza family from taking over a festival in Kitakyushu. After away f...

The ever versatile Kazuki Kitamura stars as masterless samurai Kyutaro Madarame, a feared swordsman ...

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

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

A poor samurai and a rich businessman become unlikely friends through the game of go. Yanagida is a ...

During the 1880's a young swordsman, Saotome Gengo, on his way to Tokyo stops at an inn in a small t...

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

Zatoichi is sworn to protect the life of a young girl and without any real allies finds himself in t...

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...

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

Before Tokugawa Yoshimune, known as the "Ravage Shogun", was the lord of the Kishu domain, before he...

The secret warriors of feudal Japan were the ninja. Sent on impossible missions, the ninja were trai...


The adventures of a blind, gambling masseur and master swordsman. Zatoichi targets a yakuza-controll...

Returning to the village where a year before he had killed Hirate, a much-admired opponent, Zatoichi...

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