From all over Japan, the greatest warriors: Yagyu Jubei, Miyamoto Musashi, Araki Mataemon, and more came to test their blades in a tournament of swords. But behind the match a bloodthirsty plot is born. Tokugawa Yorinobu, a corrupt shogunate official plans to assassinate Shogun Iemitsu and take his place. With scheming samurai Yui Shosetsu and ruthless Negoro ninja leader Genyusai, he plans to incite a ronin uprising and cut a bloody trail across Japan, with terrifying Chinese gunboats to back his play. Matsudaira Izu-no-kami, councilor and friend to the shogun, along with master swordsman Yagyu Jubei and ninja master Hanzo Hattori must stop Yui Shosetsu and his army of ronin and ninja assassins from tearing the country in half and taking over the government!

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

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

In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers...

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...

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

The government in Edo era is suffering from a financial crisis. It hires "Kage" to provoke the colla...

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

The story of Ryoma Sakamoto, considered to be the architect behind the downfall of the Tokugawa shog...

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

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

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

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

Kohei Akiyama, a popular master swordsman, and his son Daijiro live in the town of Edo in good faith...

Kohei Akiyama, a popular master swordsman, and his son Daijiro live in the town of Edo in good faith...

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

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

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