Edo Japan: 1603–1868

Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemployed and with no family he hopes to find a place to commit seppuku—and a worthy second to deliver the coup de grâce in…

A bravado period action film set at the end of Japan's feudal era in which a group of unemployed samurai are enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord and prevent him from ascending to the throne and plunging the country…

In 1868 after the Bakumatsu war ends the ex-assassin Kenshin Himura traverses Japan with an inverted sword to defend the needy without killing.

Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced beautifully composed "Sanjuro." In this companion piece and sequel to "Yojimbo" jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an idealistic group of…

Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him to a small country clinic under the gruff doctor Red Beard. Yasumoto…

Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story" this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money with tragic results. A man stranded in a blizzard is saved by Yuki the…

Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century. A widower with a meager income Seibei struggles to take care of his two daughters and senile mother. New prospects…

In Edo Period Japan a noblewoman's banishment for her love affair with a lowly page signals the beginning of her inexorable fall.

Ryunosuke a gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate rule has no moral code and kills without remorse. It’s a way of life that leads to madness.

In this first film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series adapted from the manga by Kazuo Koike we are told the story of the Lone Wolf and Cub's origin. Ogami Itto the official Shogunate executioner has been framed for…