6.5
Muromachi Burai
IMDb: 6.5 2025 135 min
Set in war-torn 15th century Kyoto, on the eve of the Onin War, the movie centers on a band of outlaws led by Hyoe (Oizumi) a scoundrel whose ...
5.2
Cut the Shadow
IMDb: 5.2 1963 82 min
The womanizing master of a run-down dojo hires an unemployed samurai to make himself look good instead of learning the skills himself. He lives ...
8.6
Harakiri
IMDb: 8.6 1962 135 min
Peace in 17th-century Japan causes the Shogunate’s breakup of warrior clans, throwing thousands of samurai out of work and into poverty. An ...
6.4
Gintama 2: Rules are Made to Be Broken
IMDb: 6.4 2018 134 min
The Yorozuya gang returns to protect the country’s shogun when the Shinsengumi police force finds itself in a crisis. Release: Gintama 2 ...
6.6
Falling Camellia
IMDb: 6.6 2018 111 min
During the Edo period, a gifted swordsman was exiled from his clan when he questioned the misconduct of his leader. Years after, his dying wife ...
7.4
Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival
IMDb: 7.4 1970 96 min
Zatoichi is mentored by the blind leader of a secret organization as he contends with both the Yakuza and a jealous husband. Release: Zatoichi ...
0
Momotarô Zamurai III
1994 91 min
Momotaro carries this sword into battle against injustice in shogunate Japan. Aided by ninja he must now wage a furious battle against the ...
7.5
Fight, Zatoichi, Fight
IMDb: 7.5 1964 87 min
Blind swordsman/masseuse Zatoichi befriends a young woman returning home with her baby. When gangsters mistake her for Zatoichi and kill her, ...
8.6
Seven Samurai
IMDb: 8.6 1954 207 min
A samurai answers a village’s request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai ...
7.4
13 Assassins
IMDb: 7.4 1963 125 min
A sadistic Daimyo (feudal lord) rapes a woman and murders both her and her husband, but even when one of his own vassals commits suicide to bring ...
7.0
Shogun’s Shadow
IMDb: 7.0 1989 114 min
Iemitsu, Tokugawa Shogun III, hates his eldest son Takechiyo; all his love is given to his younger son Tokumatsu. One day, he orders Takechiyo to ...
7.4
Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins
IMDb: 7.4 2012 134 min
In 1868, after the end of the Bakumatsu war, the former assassin Kenshin Himura promises to defend those in need without killing. Kenshin wanders ...
7.1
Ohyaku: The Female Demon
IMDb: 7.1 1968 90 min
Ohyaku is a grifter who falls in love with a thief, who recruits her for his plan to rob a shipment of government gold. When this plan goes wrong ...
8.2
Yojimbo
IMDb: 8.2 1961 110 min
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 ...
6.5
Legend of the Eight Samurai
IMDb: 6.5 1983 133 min
The evil Hikita clan rises from the dead to fulfill a curse on the Satomi clan by restoring the face of their warlord by using the skin of ...
6.8
11 Rebels
IMDb: 6.8 2024 155 min
Amidst the Boshin War’s brutal conflicts, a motley samurai squad undertakes a desperate defense of a fortress, their heroic stand triggered ...
7.4
Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold
IMDb: 7.4 1964 83 min
Ichi travels to the village of Itakura to pay his respects at the grave of Kichizo, a man he killed two years ago. When some tax money is stolen ...
8.6
Hara-Kiri
IMDb: 8.6 133 min
Peace in 17th-century Japan causes the Shogunate’s breakup of warrior clans, throwing thousands of samurai out of work and into poverty. An ...
6.2
Gintama
IMDb: 6.2 2017 130 min
In an era where aliens have invaded and taken over feudal Tokyo, a young samurai finds work however he can.
7.3
Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai
IMDb: 7.3 2011 126 min
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 ...