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Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tom Cruise

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...

Genre: Action

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, "Rashomon" is perhaps the finest film ever to investigate the philosophy of...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

After a successful robbery leaves famed thief Lupin the Third and his partner Jigen with nothing but a large amount of expertly crafted counterfeit...

Genre: Family

Cast: Yasuo Yamada

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...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Koji Yakusho

Before he was a protector, Kenshin was a fearsome assassin known as Battosai. But when he meets gentle Tomoe Yukishiro, a beautiful young woman who...

Genre: Action

Cast: Takeru Satoh

In this sequel to "47 Ronin," a new class of warriors emerges among the Samurai clans to keep a sought-after sword from falling into the wrong hands.

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Anna Akana

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...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

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...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Machiko Kyō

Pursued by formidable Chinese assassins, young Kotaro and his dog run into No Name, a mysterious stranger who gets pulled into the chase. The...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tomoya Nagase

The descendant of the servant of a cruel and vicious samurai returns to the town where she was born, only to find that a cat who is possessed by the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshio Hosokawa

In 1879, Kenshin and his allies face their strongest enemy yet: his former brother-in-law Enishi Yukishiro and his minions, who've vowed their...

Genre: Action

Cast: Takeru Satoh

Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Michiyo Aratama

A tale of revenge, honor and disgrace, centering on a poverty-stricken samurai who discovers the fate of his ronin son-in-law, setting in motion a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Yakusho

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...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

An imperial guard and his three traitorous childhood friends ordered to hunt him down get accidentally buried and kept frozen in time. 400 years...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Donnie Yen

In the turbulent late Eastern Han Dynasty. Ambitious Dong Zhuo controls the court and the commonalty, and heroes from all over the country begin to...

Genre: Action

Cast: Wang Kai

A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun, Japan's most powerful clan leader....

Genre: Action

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

The war against the Tokugawa Shogunate ended years ago. But there are some who are not happy with the outcome. Shigure Takimi watched his friends and...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Mayo Suzukaze

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

In Japan in the year 1600, at the dawn of a century-defining civil war, Lord Yoshii Toranaga is fighting for his life as his enemies on the Council...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroyuki Sanada

The Meiji Era was one of great renewal for Japan, where swords and killing were outlawed. However, many survivors from the time of Revolution still...

Genre: Action & Adventure

Cast: Mayo Suzukaze

A samurai lord has bartered away his newborn son's organs to forty-eight demons in exchange for dominance on the battlefield. Yet, the abandoned...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Rio Suzuki

Set in the 18th century, the show follows the Shogun Yoshimune, who likes to disguise himself as a low-ranking samurai and go into his capital of Edo...

Genre: Family

Cast: Ken Matsudaira

Hasegawa is a chief police of big heart who leads a band of samurai police and cultivates reformed criminals as informants to solve difficult crimes.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kichiemon Nakamura II

Ten years have passed since the end of Bakumatsu, an era of war that saw the uprising of citizens against the Tokugawa shogunate. The revolutionaries...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Soma Saito

The drama series depicts the life of Tokugawa Ieyasu (January 31, 1543 – June 1, 1616). Takechiyo (who later becomes Tokugawa Ieyasu) was born...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jun Matsumoto

Takeru Shiba, the 18th head of the Shiba family, and Hikoma Kusakabe call four teenager retainers in order to battle the re-emerging Gedoushu. They...

Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Cast: Tori Matsuzaka

During the war-torn feudal wars in Japan, the Awa clan faced certain extinction from a rival clan backed by demonic forces. However, a careless...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Kiyonobu Harita

Break-dancing but fierce warrior Mugen has to deal with the cold-blooded and conceited Jin, a samurai who believes he is above all. These sworn...

Genre: Action & Adventure

Cast: Ayako Kawasumi

Set between the Kamakura and Muromachi periods, during the Kenmu Restoration, the story follows the tale of Hojo Tokiyuki, a boy on the run after his...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Asaki Yuikawa

A young orphan named Biwa is taken in by the powerful Taira Clan—also known as the Heike—after their leader witnesses her extraordinary...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Aoi Yuki

Fena Houtman remembers little about her childhood. Orphaned and raised as a servant in a brothel, her life changes when she escapes to an island of...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Asami Seto

Driven by a dream of revenge against those who made her an outcast in Edo-period Japan, a young warrior cuts a bloody path toward her destiny.

Genre: Action & Adventure

Cast: Maya Erskine

During the Warring States era, the feuding generals were suddenly struck down one after another by the demonic Kishin. In the 150 years since, groups...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Yuma Uchida

As the world is in the middle of an industrial revolution, a monster appears that cannot be defeated unless its heart, which is protected by a layer...

Genre: Action & Adventure

Cast: Sayaka Senbongi

Shimazu Toyohisa is a real-life samurai who fought in the pivotal Battle of Sekigahara. In his dying moments, Shimazu is transported to a world of...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Yutaka Aoyama

It is currently the Taiheimeji era, during the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate. In this era, breasts mean everything. If you have breasts, you are...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Minako Kotobuki

The action story is set in Edo-era Tokyo in the early 1700s. The eighth shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune ordered boxes to be installed so commoners can...

Genre: Action & Adventure

Cast: KENN

Otokojuku, a private school for juvenile delinquents that were previously expelled from normal schools. At this school, Japanese chivalry is taught...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Ken Yamaguchi