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.

Japan's greatest jidaigeki star, Mifune Toshiro is Shogun's Advisor Okubo Hikozaemon who must be coa...

The news that the fifth Shogun Tsunayoshi was seriously ill caused a fierce struggle for the post of...

A man is brutally murdered and his famed shamisen (a three-stringed musical instrument) called the "...

Wishing to find peace, Zatoichi travels to his old village but only finds trouble when he ends up in...

After arriving in the town of Shimonita, Ichi finds that a price has been put on his head by a local...

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

A look at the relationship between a young blind samurai and his wife, who will make a sacrifice in ...

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

Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors ar...

The third movie following the exploits of bounty hunter Shikoro Ichibei. The theft of almost a half ...

Fearless Edo-period police inspector Hanzo Itami, nicknamed The Razor, has developed his own unique ...

One rainy night in the Edo period, Kotono (a geisha) confronts samurais who killed her father. The s...

A jidaigeki film on Banzuiin Chōbei produced in 1940 and directed by Yasuki Chiba.

Ichibei is assigned by Shogun Tokugawa to prevent the sale of a Dutch ships-load of rifles to the ho...

Bushido - the way of the warrior - is a Japanese philosophy with a moral code followed by samurai. B...

Ryunosuke, a gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate rule, ha...

The third part of the series of films based on the Japanese epic novel Nanso Satomi Hakkenden by Kyo...

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

The adventures of a blind, gambling masseur and master swordsman. Zatoichi targets a yakuza-controll...

Returning to the village where a year before he had killed Hirate, a much-admired opponent, Zatoichi...