A decapitation at the hands of the shogun's monstrous misbegotten son kicks off the action and draws nomadic Nemuri Kyoshiro (Raizô Ichikawa) into more sword-fighting adventures when he's blamed for the beheading. Meanwhile, the head-chopper's mother is busy knocking off the shogun's lawful heirs to secure the shogunate for her son.
In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a ...
Tough contract killers and secret organizations operating worldwide in a murderous battle for a reli...
The film tells about the life of the former vassal of the Ako clan - Fuwa Katsuemon Masatane.
In Edo-era Japan, a ukiyo-e artist languishes in his master’s shadow. Creatively stifled, he finds c...
Near the end of the shogunate in Japan, Katsura Shogoro and his fellow samurai from the southwestern...
A young woman, institutionalized by her abusive stepfather, retreats into a vivid fantasy world wher...
Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemp...
A group of travelers is stranded in a small country inn when the river floods during heavy rains. As...
One rainy night in the Edo period, Kotono (a geisha) confronts samurais who killed her father. The s...
Ogami Itto battles a group of female ninja in the employ of the Yagyu clan and must eliminate a trai...
Saotome, a sword master and guard of the Shogunate, pursues the mystery of a deadly aerial weapon th...
Police detective Heiji is assigned to catch the masked Maboroshi gang of robbers who have terrorized...
Even though Gennosuke and Oboro are from rival ninja villages, they are secretly in love. At an annu...
A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival ...
Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifull...
Yasube Nakayama left the clan and lives in Edo. One day, Yasubei visits his uncle Rokuroemon Kanno t...
Seppuku Day 17 Ako ronins, including Kuranosuke Oishi, who were entrusted to the Hosokawa family, an...
Zatoichi is sworn to protect the life of a young girl and without any real allies finds himself in t...
Raised suckling poison arrows among the sparring Iga ninja factions, Mumon is a carefree 16th-centur...
In a poor district of Edo lives a young samurai named Soza. He has been sent by his clan to avenge t...