At the end of the Edo Period which brought the era of the samurai to a close, Ryu is the descendant of a "genin", the lowest rank in the ninja hierarchy. Due to such a low rank, he lives a miserable existence. Then a secret order is received from Katsu Kaishu bidding for the recovery of princess Shizuka, a Satsuma native, from the home of a prominent vassal in Edo.

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

In a poor district of Edo lives a young samurai named Soza. He has been sent by his clan to avenge t...

In the Edo period, a nameless ronin accepts an assignment to go to a mountain pass and wait. Near th...

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

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

In this exciting story, Sasuke Sarutobi, known as the bravest child in the world, fulfills the will ...

Japan, 1785. Jūzaburō, a famous thief who refuses to kill innocent people, is betrayed, ambushed, an...

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

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

Takahagi Sutegoro is highly skilled at casing locations for thieves so that he can sell detailed flo...

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

Raised suckling poison arrows among the sparring Iga ninja factions, Mumon is a carefree 16th-centur...

Matauemon Araki (Kotaro Satomi) is a sword teacher in Yamatokoriyama. He heard from his brother-in-l...

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

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

Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan w...

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

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

Takahashi Hideki stars as Muyonosuke, the one-eyed ronin who makes his living as a bounty hunter who...

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