Rick, a down-and-out American boxer, is hired to transport a sword to Japan, unaware that the whole thing is a set up...
Country: Japan, United States of America
Stars: Scott Glenn, Toshirō Mifune, Donna Kei Benz,
When Japanese organized crime imbeds itself within LA, the police turn to one man to take down the deadly Yakuza — ...
Country: United States of America
Stars: Matt Hannon, Mark Frazer, Cranston Komuro,
At the prompting of his diplomat friend, Alex, writer Ted Fletcher takes his wife, Laura, and daughter, Amy, on an ex...
Country: United States of America, Japan
Stars: Edward Albert, Susan George, Doug McClure,
In the second film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto battles a group of female ninja in the employ of the Y...
Country: Japan
Stars: Tomisaburō Wakayama, Kayo Matsuo, Minoru Oki,
In this first film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, adapted from the manga by Kazuo Koike, we are told the story of t...
Country: Japan
Stars: Tomisaburō Wakayama, Fumio Watanabe, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi,
Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, "Rashomon" is perhaps the finest film ever to in...
Country: Japan
Stars: Toshirō Mifune, Machiko Kyō, Masayuki Mori,
In a poor district of Edo lives a young samurai named Soza. He has been sent by his clan to avenge the death of his f...
Country: Japan
Stars: Junichi Okada, Rie Miyazawa, Arata Furuta,
Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed "Sanju...
Country: Japan
Stars: Toshirō Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Keiju Kobayashi,
The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, when Tokugawa Ieyas...
Country: Japan
Stars: Junichi Okada, Kasumi Arimura, Koji Yakusho,
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from ban...
Country: Japan
Stars: Toshirō Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Yoshio Inaba,
In the Ming Dynasty, there lives four orphans, Ying, Sao, Yuanlong and Niehu. Raised in Taoyuan Village, the four are...
Country: China, Hong Kong
Stars: Donnie Yen, Baoqiang Wang, Eva Huang,
In the early 1990s, a Japanese samurai detective series was aired in Australia and became a cult success. Titled in J...
Country: Australia
Stars: Toshi Okuzaki, Masa Yamaguchi, Mayu Iwasaki,
Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their future...
Country: Japan
Stars: Toshirō Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Akira Kubo,
Kai—an outcast—joins Oishi, the leader of 47 outcast samurai. Together they seek vengeance upon the treacherous ...
Country: United States of America
Stars: Keanu Reeves, Hiroyuki Sanada, Kou Shibasaki,
Kubo mesmerizes the people in his village with his magical gift for spinning wild tales with origami. When he acciden...
Country: United States of America
Stars: Art Parkinson, Charlize Theron, Rooney Mara,
Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learn...
Country: Japan, United States of America, New Zealand
Stars: Tom Cruise, Ken Watanabe, William Atherton,
After surviving the slaughter of many Christians 350 years ago, a samurai denounces God for ignoring the pleas of bel...
Country: Japan
Stars: Shin'ichi Chiba, Kenji Sawada, Akiko Kana,
Wolverine faces his ultimate nemesis - and tests of his physical, emotional, and mortal limits - in a life-changing v...
Country: United Kingdom, United States of America
Stars: Hugh Jackman, Tao Okamoto, Rila Fukushima,
A look at the relationship between a young blind samurai (Kimura) and his wife, who will make a sacrifice in order to...
Country: Japan
Stars: Takuya Kimura, Rei Dan, Takashi Sasano,
Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A pennil...
Country: Japan
Stars: Michiyo Aratama, Misako Watanabe, Rentarou Mikuni,
Zatoichi is a 19th century blind nomad who makes his living as a gambler and masseur. However, behind this humble fac...
Country: Japan
Stars: Takeshi Kitano, Tadanobu Asano, Michiyo Ookusu,
What would have happened if the Shiroyasha never existed? Edo is thrown to chaos by a mysterious cause. Sakata Ginto...
Country: Japan
Stars: Tomokazu Sugita, Daisuke Sakaguchi, Akira Ishida,
Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an ag...
Country: Japan, United States of America
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Jinpachi Nezu,
A bravado period action film set at the end of Japan's feudal era in which a group of unemployed samurai are enlisted...
Country: Japan, United Kingdom
Stars: Koji Yakusho, Takayuki Yamada, Yusuke Iseya,
Ryunosuke, a gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate rule, has no moral code a...
Country: Japan
Stars: Tatsuya Nakadai, Yûzô Kayama, Michiyo Aratama,
Fewer samurai films are being made, and the Uzumasa studio has fallen on hard times. One day, veteran "kirareyaku" (w...
Country: Japan, United States of America
Stars: Seizô Fukumoto, Chihiro Yamamoto, Hirotaro Honda,
The drama documentary tells the real life story of Samurai woman Takeko Nakano who in 1868 fights for her clans' inde...
Country:
Stars: Shoka Oshima, Sarasa Fujita, Junko Kimoto
Set within the Kaga Domain in the Edo Period. Oharu is an excellent cook and recognized for her skills. Due to her co...
Country: Japan
Stars: Aya Ueto, Kengo Kora, Kimiko Yo,
The Edo period. Once a famous swordsman, Kyutaro Madarame, aka “Madara the Devil,” is now a masterless samurai. ...
Country: Japan
Stars: Kazuki Kitamura, Moto Fuyuki, Hana Kino
Masami is a guitarist who dreams of his band “Rhythm Head” winning the Grand Prix at the Japan Music Carnival. Hi...
Country: Japan
Stars: Yutaka Kobayashi, Masaru Mizuno, Honda Takafumi,
In the sixth and final film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, the final conflict between Ogami Itto and the Yagyu clan...
Country: Japan
Stars: Tomisaburō Wakayama, Akihiro Tomikawa, Junko Hitomi,
In Japan, gonzo filmmakers hatch a three-pronged plan to save an actress's career, end a yakuza war and make a hit mo...
Country: Japan
Stars: Jun Kunimura, Hiroki Hasegawa, Gen Hoshino,