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…

A woman, married off to an abusive butcher, is overpowered by the twin forces of patriarchy and trad...

Kakunoshin Yanagida was a samurai, forced to leave the Han due to a false accusation. He then lived ...

John and Michael are taught by their father at a young age that people are merely piggy banks... if ...

In 1701, Lord Takuminokami Asano has a feud with Lord Kira and he tries to kill Kira in the corridor...

Based on the historical figure of Nobutora, the father of the famous Warring States period general T...

Japan, 1137. The Taira family, a samurai clan, becomes involved in the disputes between Emperor Toba...

Young Lord Taihei goes to Edo to find the lost family treasure, a plover incense burner, under the d...

Three brothers are separated after their parents are murdered by a gangster. Years later, they find ...

Near the end of the shogunate in Japan, Katsura Shogoro and his fellow samurai from the southwestern...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

Sebastian's (16) sheltered small-town life changes suddenly when his family takes in 15-year-old Kol...

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

Izo, a Ronin, and Raiden, an orc, work to bring a young elf girl and the wand she carries to the lan...

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