An innocuous comment during a weapon inspection wounds the pride of low-ranking samurai Shinpachi, leading to an argument with his superior. The situation snowballs out of control, leading to a deadly duel and political fallout which threatens the entire clan. Declared mentally unstable by the corrupt authority, Shinpachi begins his descent into true insanity…

The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, wh...

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

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, whic...

Young Lord Genjiro, who abandoned his castle to live as a commoner in Edo, returns home to restore p...

After returning from a concentration camp, Susanne finds a traumatized ex-soldier living in her apar...

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

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A yakuza boss hires Goemon Ishikawa, a modern day samurai, to protect him aboard his cruise ship cas...

After completing jail time for beating up a man who tried to seduce his mentally-handicapped teenage...

The Color Print of Edo is a 1939 black and white Japanese silent film with benshi accompaniment dire...

The mysterious story behind the Skull Coins, which are said to reveal the location of treasure, and ...

After kidnapping a father and his two kids, the Gecko brothers head south to a seedy Mexican bar to ...

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

Having put down his sword and given up the will to fight, the masterless samurai Iemon lives in soli...

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

Sen no Rikyu (Ebizo Ichikawa) is the son of a fish shop owner. Sen no Rikyu then studies tea and eve...

Fifth movie in the Hissatsu (Sure Death!) Series. At the behest of a corrupt bureaucrat, a mysterio...

An ex-pro athlete runner and his wife find a strange boy in the middle of nowhere along with a murde...

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