Bushido Katana (Samurai Sword): The Soul of Japan

A documentary revealing episodes of famous swords and the high-ranking samurai or swordsmen who bore them while shining a spotlight on the techniques of master sword smiths and sword polishers who carry on the skill…

Mikage Doshin: Kizzu Samurai

Free and Easy: Samurai Edition

4.5

In the late Edo Period, a fishing-crazy warrior is kicked out of his clan and leads an itinerant existence with his long-suffering sister. He finds a kindred spirit in the leader of another clan...

Saigo no Samurai Kawai Tsuginosuke

6.0

Shichinin no Samurai: J ke no Hanran

8.0

Heisei Bushido Dispatch Samurai

A strange comedy drama in which seven samurai slash the evil that nests in Heisei Japan. Samurai Shinnosuke, who has been dispatched to the Taihei Agency, is struggling for an event that has a lot of luck. Meanwhile,…

Waga Koso Samurai!

2.0

Reborn From Hell: Samurai Armageddon

6.0

A powerful sorcerer enacts a plan to take over the world by sacrificing young virgins in a dark ritual to raise an undead army. Only one man stands in his way: a powerful samurai named Jubei Yagyu. Jubei manages to…

Mifune: The Last Samurai

9.0

Documentary about the life of the legendary actor Mifune Toshiro, who created Japan's Golden Era of cinema. The film explores Mifune's legacy in bringing 'Samura cinema' to the world's attention with interviews of…

Ohara Go

A brother of actor Ken Ohara. Action Director: - Gothic & Lolita Psycho | Gosurori shokeinin (2010) - Slackers 2 | Surakkazu: Kizudarake no yujo (2009) - Oneechanbara: The Movie - Vortex (2009) - Shaolin Baba (2008) - Chanbara Beauty: The Movie | Oneechanbara: The Movie (2008) - Death Trance (2006)…

Koizumi Takashi

Koizumi Takashi worked as an assistant director to Kurosawa Akira in “Kagemusha”, ”Ran”, “Madadayo”, etc.. His directorial debut "After the Rain" (2000) (screenplay by Kurosawa Akira) has won the best picture prize of the 42nd Japan Academy Film Prize, which is followed by well-made cinemas…

Tokutomi Kenjiro

Tokutomi was born on December 8, 1868 in Minamata, Japan to a samurai family. He was the younger brother of journalist and historian Tokutomi Sohō. He converted to Christianity in 1885, and moved to Imabari, Ehime, where he lived with Shiro Sokabe and was a student of Tokio Yokoi. This is also where…

Horikawa Hiromichi

Horikawa Hiromichi was a Japanese director. He was assistant director to Kurosawa Akira for the production of Seven Samurai (1954) and Throne of Blood (1957). Akira Kurosawa’s assistant on numerous films including Ikiru (1952) and Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai, 1954), Horikawa has never achieved…

Kataoka Asuka

Asuka Kataoka was born in Souja, Okayama, Japan. She is an actress, known for Ghostwriter Go, Samurai purinsesu: Gedou-hime (2009) and Shiawase Nara te o Tatakou (2005).

Tsushima Keiko

Keiko Tsushima was a Japanese actress, whose real name was Naoko Mori. She was notable for her prominent role in Akira Kurosawa's 1954 film Seven Samurai. She also starred in Japanese television series such as Sakura and Kimi ga Jinsei no Toki.

Saito Kosei

Saito Kosei was a Japanese film director. He is known for directing the film G.I. Samurai. (Source: Wikipedia)

Kayama Yoshiko

Actress | Writer. Yoshiko Kayama was born on January 1, 1944 in Tokyo, Japan. She is an actress and writer, known for Three Outlaw Samurai (1964), Arashi wo yobu jûhachinin (1963) and Edogawa Rampo no injû (1977).

Kimura Daisaku

Daisaku Kimura was born in Tokyo, Japan. He is a cinematographer (over 50 credits) and a director, known mainly for: "Samurai's Promise" (2018), "Memory" (2017), "The Summit: A Chronicle of Stones to Serenity" (2009). He worked as the Assistant Cameraman on many of Kurosawa Akira’s movies from "The…

Watanabe Hiroshi

Hiroshi Watanabe is an actor, known for Letters from Iwo Jima (2006), The Last Samurai (2003) and White on Rice (2009).