Zankuro Matsudaira (Ken Watanabe) is a low-grade vassal of the Tokugawa Shogun, forced to moonlight as a bodyguard and executioner to make ends meet. He also has a drinking problem, an overeating mother, and a propensity to protect the oppressed, all of which eat into his finances. His confident mother Masajo (Kyoko Kishida) is the descendant of a famous family of shogunate retainers and a mistress of the pen and sword, who regards her son as a failure.
Break-dancing but fierce warrior Mugen has to deal with the cold-blooded and conceited Jin, a samura...
During the war-torn feudal wars in Japan, the Awa clan faced certain extinction from a rival clan ba...
After 2 years of completely isolation in mountains, Musashi comes back in order to live a normal lif...
Manji is a crass, violent samurai with a special ability: he cannot die. Cursed with immortality by ...
When swords were outlawed in the eleventh year of the Meiji era, the mighty samurai population began...
A Japanese period drama broadcast in prime-time in 1984, based on Goseki Kojima and Kazuo Koike 's m...
Saburo is a high school student good in sports, but not very good with his studies. One day, Saburo ...
In Japan in the year 1600, at the dawn of a century-defining civil war, Lord Yoshii Toranaga is figh...
Takechi Hanpeita, a samurai from Bakumatsu period time-travels 150 years to modern day Japan.
After a sheltered upbringing as the adopted daughter of one of Japan's most powerful clans, Heaven K...
A story set in the mid-1800's about a young doctor who has been trained in Western-style medicine an...
A former samurai, a yakuza bodyguard, a devious spy, and a geisha assassin try to find their place i...
A young orphan named Biwa is taken in by the powerful Taira Clan—also known as the Heike—after their...
Demon Eyes Kyo, a feared samurai seeking to regain his body after his soul is sealed inside the body...
As villages perish under the thumb of a cruel race of warriors, a young priestess named Kirara trave...
Many years ago the world was divided into two stars, the Eastern and the Western, that were connecte...
In the midst of an industrial revolution, the people of Hinomoto fight hordes of undead creatures, k...
The historical novel series depicts Heizou Hasegawa, who metes justice on wrongdoers and supervises ...
Sozaburo Kanasugi is a samurai in the Kyushu countryside. After accepting a secret mission from his ...
Hasegawa is a chief police of big heart who leads a band of samurai police and cultivates reformed c...