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.

It is a historical drama that follows Katsu Kaishu's efforts to surrender Edo Castle bloodlessly in ...

The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. The husband ...

25 years later after the events of Samurai Cop (1991), Detective Frank Washington is forced to team ...

The womanizing master of a run-down dojo hires an unemployed samurai to make himself look good inste...

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

Zatoichi is sworn to protect the life of a young girl and without any real allies finds himself in t...

Getting an opportunity to meet with another half-Caucasian swordsman, Kyoshiro finds himself involve...

Ichi is a blind entertainer that travels the countryside with her traditional Japanese guitar and wa...

A blind man seeks revenge against the psychopath who took away his sight and slaughtered his wife an...

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

Following the death of the second Tokugawa shogun, it is revealed that he was poisoned by retainers ...

When the wife of a 17th century Kyoto scroll-maker is falsely accused of having an affair with his b...

In Kyoto, a samurai named Boredom Otoko, Saotome Mondonosuke , appears and helps a woman being chase...

Set in 19th Century Japan a young samurai who finds himself in love with a farm girl leaves his home...

Two rogue vagrants make their living as "manure men", turning the waste from the tenement toilets in...

A remake of High Noon (1952) as a Japanese jidai-geki sword-fighting movie.

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

In Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving not...