The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi
Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice games. When he arrives in a village torn apart by warring gangs, he sets out to protect the townspeople.
The Invisible Swordsman
A cowardly boy fencer becomes invisible and matchless through a magic potion.
Kubi
Lord Oda Nobunaga plans to control Japan where rival warlords battle by waging war against several clans. His vassal Araki Murashige stages a rebellion and promptly disappears.
Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple
After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu waits for him, yet he has come not for her but to challenge the leader of the region's finest school of fencing. To prove his valor and skill, he walks deliberately into ambushes set up by the school's followers. While Otsu waits, Akemi also seeks him, expressing her desires directly. Meanwhile, Takezo is observed by Sasaki Kojiro, a brilliant young fighter, confident he can dethrone Takezo. After leaving Kyoto in triumph, Takezo declares his love for Otsu, but in a way that dishonors her and shames him. Once again, he leaves alone.
The Challenge
Rick, a down-and-out American boxer, is hired to transport a sword to Japan, unaware that the whole thing is a set up in a bitter blood-feud between two brothers, one who follows the traditional path of the samurai and the other a businessman. At the behest of the businessman, Rick undertakes samurai training from the other brother, but joins his cause. He also becomes romantically involved with the samurai's daughter.
11 Rebels
When the brutal Boshin War breaks out in Japan, a group of inmates on death row unite to defend a fortress against the Imperial army.
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx
Ogami Itto battles a group of female ninja in the employ of the Yagyu clan and must eliminate a traitor who plans to sell his clan's secrets to the Shogunate.
Kagemusha: The Shadow Warrior
Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging warlord, in order to avoid attacks by competing clans. When Shingen dies, his generals reluctantly agree to have the impostor take over as the powerful ruler. He soon begins to appreciate life as Shingen, but his commitment to the role is tested when he must lead his troops into battle against the forces of a rival warlord.
Samurai Avenger: The Blind Wolf
A blind man seeks revenge against the psychopath who took away his sight and slaughtered his wife and daughter. Eight years after the massacre, the man has returned to the desert town, now a highly trained samurai swordsman ready to seek justice. But he doesn't know there awaits seven assassins hired by his sworn enemy who want the bounty on his head. Set in nowhere, no time, this bloody modern day fable is a new age hybrid action film with a classic samurai essence and a spaghetti western spirit. This is, "Sushi Western!"
The Wolverine
Wolverine faces his ultimate nemesis - and tests of his physical, emotional, and mortal limits - in a life-changing voyage to modern-day Japan.
Red Sun
In 1870, Japanese ambassador Sakaguchi and his entourage travel by train to Washington to deliver a valuable sword to the President of the United States, a gift from the Emperor of Japan. On board the same train are two robbers, Link and Gauche, ready to make their move…
The Fall of Ako Castle
This is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701-2, the movie tells the tale of the Asano clan's downfall and the revenge of its former samurai on the perpetrator of the catastrophe. Lord Asano was goaded, or tricked, into drawing his sword inside the Shogun's palace -- a crime which carried the death penalty. The newly installed Shogun was furious at Asano and ordered all his clan's assets seized, meaning some 20,000 samurai and commoners were unemployed and landless at a stroke. Forty-seven of these ronin (masterless samurai) banded together to take attempt revenge on Lord Kira, who had goaded Asano into drawing his sword.
Ugetsu
In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers in a nearby village, in defiance of a local sage's warning against seeking to profit from warfare. Genjuro's pursuit of both riches and the mysterious Lady Wakasa, as well as Tobei's desire to become a samurai, run the risk of destroying both themselves and their wives, Miyagi and Ohama.
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril
Ogami Itto is hired to kill a tattooed female assassin and battles Retsudo, head of the Yagyu clan, and his son Gunbei.
Black Cat
In the Sengoku period, a woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of civil war. Afterwards, a series of samurai returning from the war through that area are found mysteriously dead with their throats torn out. The governor calls in a wild and fierce young hero to quell what is evidently an Onryō ghost. He encounters the two beautiful women in an eerie, beautiful scene. After spiritual purification, he meets the demon in a thrilling fight.
Seven Samurai
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with food.
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Takeshi Kitano
Director
Michiyo Yasuda
as
Aunt Oume
Yoshiyuki Morishita
as
Carpenter
Tadanobu Asano
as
Hattori Genosuke
Kanji Tsuda
as
Playboy at Home
Susumu Terajima
as
Hannya Sahee
Hidetoshi Nishijima
as
Mitsuhide Akechi
Ryô Kase
as
Nobunaga Oda
Hiroshi Inagaki
Director
Yoshio Inaba
as
Eijirô Tôno
as
Baiken Shishido
Toshirô Mifune
as
Musashi Miyamoto
Eiko Miyoshi
as
Osugi, Matahachi's mother
John Frankenheimer
Director
Scott Glenn
as
Rick Murphy
Tarô Suruga
as
Kazuma Sano
as
Hayate Ichinose
as
Nimaime
Amane Okayama
as
Oroshiya
Takuma Otoo
as
Sengoku Zen'emon
Sei Hiraizumi
as
Minoru Ôki
as
Benma Hidari
Tomisaburô Wakayama
as
Ogami Itto
Yuriko Mishima
as
Oyo
Akira Kurosawa
Director
Yû Shimaka
as
Jingoro Hara
Tsutomu Yamazaki
as
Nobukado Takeda
Kaori Momoi
as
Otsuyanokata
Mitsuko Baishô
as
Oyunokata
Amanda Plummer
as
Lady in the Car
James Mangold
Director
Famke Janssen
as
Jean Grey
Hugh Jackman
as
Logan
Ian McKellen
as
Magneto
Hiroyuki Sanada
as
Shingen
Alain Delon
as
Gotch 'Gauche' Kink
Charles Bronson
as
Link Stuart
Julio Peña
as
Peppie
Kinji Fukasaku
Director
Mieko Harada
as
Hatsu Hashimoto
Shin'ichi Chiba
as
Kazuemon Fuwa
Tôru Minegishi
as
Yasubei Horibe
Buichi Saitô
Director
Hiroshi Tanaka
as
Jûzaemon Kashiwagi
Tatsuo Endô
as
Yagyu Retsudo
Takeshi Katô
as
Samurai Wandering Through Town
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Kaneto Shindô
