Samurai Movies

Impressionistic silent short film (also known as ‘Kaze. Ippun yonjûbyô’) created by 17-year-old high school student Shinozuka...

The legendary tale of the forty-seven samurai and their mission to avenge the death of their master.

Bored Hatamoto film #8

Two stubborn Samurai fight a meaningless battle for a woman's hand. Treachery, murder and lost honour are unleashed in the course of a magic year in...

Haunted by bad luck, two friends learn to trust in the world again and take their destiny into their own hands.

A retired frog samurai wants nothing more than to be left alone and spend his remaining years in peace on the golf course. But when he unwillingly...

Short film made during the filming of Samurai Rauni Reposaarelainen that tells the story in a different light.

A duel to the death set in Edo period Japan.

The boozy mercenary of the title, based on the actual historical figure of Naoyuki Ban (1567-1615), attempts to rid a haunted castle of spooks.

Koji has been entrusted an impossible task by his late Master. He is the last remaining hope of defeating an ancient evil and restoring balance to...

A group of bandits flee to the mountains after killing an evil moneylender.

Among the many famous 16th-century samurai who made the leap from myth and ukiyo-e to early cinema screen was sword-master Miyamoto Musashi,...

A farmer walking in the woods is frightened away by a shapeshifting fox, who then disguises himself as a samurai and makes his way to a temple,...

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

Hana leads a boring life between work and hobby, until one day she suddenly travels through time to ancient Edo, before the Western powers had opened...

THE DUEL OF FATES is a Japanese revenge tale set in Edo period that follows a disgraced Rōnin whose plan to kill the Lord is halted by a man he...

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