Samurai Movies

In the early 1990s, a Japanese samurai detective series was aired in Australia and became a cult success. Titled in Japan Ronin Suiri Tentai (meaning...

Bored Hatamoto film #16.

During the 17th Century roving bands of hatamoto were causing trouble in the new capital city of Edo and constantly fought with the townspeople at...

A cowardly boy fencer becomes invisible and matchless through a magic potion.

Bored Hatamoto movie #12

One samurai is ordered to kill another by their master in punishment.

A duel to the death set in Edo period Japan.

Bored Hatamoto movie #11

The final film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass.

One rainy night in the Edo period, Kotono (a geisha) confronts samurais who killed her father. The samurais attack her one after another, but she...

The great Okawa Hashizo, in one of his most powerful roles risks his life and limb to help save the lovely Onaka from a terrible lifestyle. Starting...

In an ordinary park, a samurai and a cowboy face off in a sudden duel, each claiming a client’s final coin.

Nemuri Kyoshiro discovers a conspiracy centering around a band of disgruntled samurai wanting to avenge the death of their sensei, a political...

An entertaining youth drama, which tells about the struggle of a young swordsman Yamanaka Shikanoske (Kinya Kitaoji) and his friends who resist the...

Near the end of the shogunate in Japan, Katsura Shogoro and his fellow samurai from the southwestern domain of Choshu enter the dojo of Saito Yakuro,...

Saotome, a sword master and guard of the Shogunate, pursues the mystery of a deadly aerial weapon that is responsible for the multiple deaths in town.

Chronichles the story of the Forty-seven Ronin.

The success story of a group of ronin who fights against traffickers during the Edo Tenpo period.

A young girl named Oichi is abandoned by her mother and blinded by a lightning strike. When her guardian is killed, she learns to wield a sword from...