Samurai Movies

After accidentally causing the death of an old lady, Zatoichi tries to do right by buying the lady’s daughter’s freedom from a brothel -...

A cowardly samurai is sent as an official executioner targeting the clan's former sword instructor, a man whose sword and spear skills are second to...

Director Hiroshi Inagaki's early version of the life and death of famed swordsman Sasaki Kojiro. Otani Tomoemon gives a brilliant performance as...

Chronichles the story of the Forty-seven Ronin.

This is the story of Gonpachi, a ronin who falls in love with the daughter of a man he had killed many years before.

The final film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass.

Explores the ambiguity of sensations, the boundaries between pleasure and pain, a filmmaker's piece about death as the final fetish and the ritual...

A wandering samurai is plagued by visions of a beautiful woman killed by his own blade.

On New Year's Day 1716, Munenaga of Owari and Yoshinao of Kii were both named as candidates for the title of 8th Shogun. The wise and just Munenaga...

As a result of illness and unemployment, Yamaoka Tatewaki, a "Hatamoto" (or direct vassal of the Shogun), pawned his family heirloom, a valuable Gosu...

The success story of a group of ronin who fights against traffickers during the Edo Tenpo period.

Bored Hatamoto film #9

A short documentary detailing the forging of a katana.

Historical drama about two samurai who fight over everything yet unite together to fight an evil lord.

Jean-Christophe Charbonnier, a specialist on the topic of Japanese warfare, takes us through the implementation of weaponry, armor, and suicide...

film directed by Tai Katô

From resting trees, to violent waters, to blood splattered in the dirt. A wanderer searches for tranquility in 13th century Japan during the Mongol...

The story of Dangonosuke, a boy samurai rescuing a woman from a villain is told comically.

Lord Oda Nobunaga gains control of nearly all of Japan and tries to enlist the aid of Magoichi and his 3.000 gunners.