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.

Takizawa Bakin, a popular Edo period author, begins to recount a story he is planning in front of hi...

A rebellious ninja in 17th century Japan takes refuge with a fisherman and his family.

A pair of down-on-their-luck swordsmen arrive in a dusty, windblown town, where they become involved...

Near the end of the nineteenth century, as the balance of power shifts from Shogunate towards the Em...

In the mist of the warring age (Sengoku Era), the Kyushu based Hayato Clan is faced with a monumenta...

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

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...

Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century....

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

The famed leader Oda Nobunaga had two right-hand men who contributed to unifying the nation. One was...

On the day his mother dies, young gambler Jirocho swears in front of her grave that he'll never gamb...

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

Isozoemon (Go Kato) was a ronin (masterless samurai) and broke, who lived in a Choya (cheap apartmen...

Toma (Go Kato) is a son of a doctor in Takane, Yoshitomo Monzen. He was ordered by the sick federal ...

Young lord investigates the mysterious death that takes place in the underworld.

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

In the last days of the Tokugawa shogunate, there was a cute warrior, Souji Okita, who belonged to t...