Nagasaki at the end of the Edo period had the taste of a criminal paradise, where, despite the exotic, dangerous work was always in demand. Here, three wandering samurai who earn their living by killing get to know each other. Soon they learn that government officials will be transporting a large cargo of gold and decide to steal it.
Yagyu Jubei, the finest swordsman in the land, is called upon to bare his blade to help Iemitsu keep...
Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan w...
Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifull...
Teenage Mutsuko comes to Tokyo for work but ends up at a repair shop. She befriends the owner's fami...
One rainy night in the Edo period, Kotono (a geisha) confronts samurais who killed her father. The s...
Fearless Edo-period police inspector Hanzo Itami, nicknamed The Razor, has developed his own unique ...
Young swordsman, Tsukigata Hanpeita, longs for the day when rival clans cease their struggles for po...
The adventures of Aoi Shingo continue. Shingo is finally given permission to officially meet his fat...
Taisuke is kind-hearted but overall lacks ambition. Taizo is smarter, but given to fits of emotion a...
During the latter days of the Tokugawa Era, the tensions rise between the 'royalists' and those stru...
This is a standalone movie, based on the long-running television series about Shogun Yoshimune. Whe...
A submissive hooker goes about her trade, suffering abuse at the hands of Japanese salarymen and Yak...
After his family is killed in Japan by ninjas, Cho and his son Kane come to America to start a new l...
Against the backdrop of the Edo treasury devaluing currency and driving many into poverty, Hanzo Ita...
Hanzo extracts a confession from a ghost using his assaulting methods, foils thieves, connects with ...
Charts the troubled teenage years of students Yūichi Hasumi and Shūsuke Hoshino, exploring the shift...
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...
Fewer samurai films are being made, and the Uzumasa studio has fallen on hard times. One day, vetera...