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.

In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a ...

The first part of an entertaining historical drama depicting the eventful story of the revenge of an...

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

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

Ryunosuke, a gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate rule, ha...

Ichi is a blind entertainer that travels the countryside with her traditional Japanese guitar and wa...

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

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

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

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

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

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 jidaigeki film on Banzuiin Chōbei produced in 1940 and directed by Yasuki Chiba.

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

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...