In the middle of the Edo period, when the finances of the shogunate were in a desperate situation, the shogunate sent its shadow spies to each clan, who secretly planned the abolition of the clans and the seizure of their territories. The Inami clan has mastered the essence of making weapons, thus breaking the law. To protect the clan, its elders hire three "Shadow Hunters"... TV movie based on the popular manga by Takao Saito.

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, whic...

A yakuza boss hires Goemon Ishikawa, a modern day samurai, to protect him aboard his cruise ship cas...

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 ...

The ever versatile Kazuki Kitamura stars as masterless samurai Kyutaro Madarame, a feared swordsman ...

Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersona...

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

A warrior-in-training and his bumbling friends go in pursuit of a stolen sword.

The second Bounty Hunter film, when master killer Shikoro Ichibei takes up the cause of a group of f...

Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifull...

A master swordsman is ordered to go undercover on a mission to find and destroy a cannon factory bei...

Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century....

Drama set in the historical Warring States Era of Japan. Tokaido name Imagawa Yoshimoto personally l...

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...

A samurai returns to his homeland after a three year absence and finds his fiance is now one of the ...

A group of ruthless gangsters, an unknown woman and an escaped convict have met, in The Forest of Re...

Saotome, a sword master and guard of the Shogunate, pursues the mystery of a deadly aerial weapon th...

As a result of illness and unemployment, Yamaoka Tatewaki, a "Hatamoto" (or direct vassal of the Sho...