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.

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

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

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

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

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

Follows the final days of the shogunate and Shinsengumi's Vice-Comander Hijikata Toshizo along with ...

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

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

During the latter part of the 16th Century, Japan's Warring States era was coming to a close. After ...

Kanichiro Yoshimura is a Samurai and Family man who can no longer support his wife and children on t...

Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemp...

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...

One samurai is ordered to kill another by their master in punishment.

Amagi Goe, based on Seicho Matsumoto's novel, has created numerous stars through its visualizations....

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

Kotani Zenzaemon, a ronin who has a side job making brushes in a tenement house in the back alley, i...

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 ...

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