Movies: Samurai

A young samurai in search for a Ronin to challenge him to a duel and prove his worth....

The Stranger comes across some bad guys trying to kill a Japanese emissary for a very important scroll. Before the emissary dies, he asks The Stranger to return the scroll to Japan. Once there he finds himself stuck in the middle of two rival clans a...

A samurai purchases a new sword only to find it is already dull. When he returns to the dull looking merchant to complain, something quite unexpected happens....

A particular day of a samurai...

Impressionistic silent short film (also known as ‘Kaze. Ippun yonjûbyô’) created by 17-year-old high school student Shinozuka Tsutomu. The animation, which won the Debut Prize at the inaugural Hiroshima International Animation Festival in 1985, shows...

The village samurai has been tasked by the town fame Mr. Feast to track down a thieving ninja, but he soon uncovers the gritty truth......

A 400 year old samurai encounters a modern feminist couple in the woods....

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Explores the ambiguity of sensations, the boundaries between pleasure and pain, a filmmaker's piece about death as the final fetish and the ritual suicide Seppuku....

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

After a gruesome war which decimated much of the Earth's population, a white samurai awakens with no memory of his cruel past. He is sent on a great journey to retrieve the elixir of life, known as "The Tears of the Rabbit." Along the way, he encount...

Kenji and Shintaro, once esteemed as the castle town's best Samurai, were anticipated to become the next Sensei and top Samurai until an assault changed their fate. While saving their lord, Kenji's injury marked the end of his swordsmanship career, a...

On an ordinary day off, a man starts his day by cleaning his room as usual. But when he tries to sweep up the dust, he finds that it won't go into the dustpan as expected. He then tries every possible way to make sure the room is spotless....

Two gal pals perform the ritual of Hitori Kakurenbo and awaken a vengeful spirit....

The story is set in the Sengoku period. A rounin called Nanashi saves a young boy Kotarou at an abandoned temple. Kotarou has no family, is pursued by a mysterious militia organization from China and hires Nanashi as his bodyguard....

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

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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 country. A fan of historical romances, she imagines herself on a film set and fancies the histor...

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, haunted by a young shapeshifting tanuki whose various attempts to frighten the fox/samurai away fail. The ...