Samurai Movies

The critically acclaimed all-woman Japanese acting revue Takarazuka brings Rurouni Kenshin to life, creating a new twist on a globally loved story.

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

This is the story of Gonpachi, a ronin who falls in love with the daughter of a man he had killed many years before.

Bored Hatamoto movie #14

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...

A story of revenge between two samurai families on the Igagoe Road. Araki Mataemon born in the province of Iga. He studied the art of the sword under...

During the latter days of the Tokugawa Era, the tensions rise between the 'royalists' and those struggling to uphold the Shogunate. The most modern...

A tale of friendship, betrayal, and forbidden love—set against the backdrop of Edo’s criminal underworld. While patrolling the Honjo...

Bored Hatamoto film #5

A wandering samurai is plagued by visions of a beautiful woman killed by his own blade.

A narrator relates the Japanese tale of two lovers who defy their families and society to be together. The tale ends happily, until something happens...

Bored Hatamoto film #16.

A film about the struggle of an officer from Edo, Toyama Saemon, with a lightning-fast gang of thieves.

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,...

The story mainly revolves on Nakoruru and her humanistic ideals: she believes that anyone with a heart has the right to live peacefully. Shiki,...

Bored Hatamoto film #3

Around the Genroku era, there was a man named Saotome Shusui-no-Suke, nephew to the senior councilor Matsudaira Sakon Shogen. He was commonly known...

Set in the late thirteenth century, this film depicts the defense of southern Japan led by the Kono clan against the Mongol invasion in 1281.

Andrew Graham-Dixon takes a break from his art critic day job to immerse himself in the art, rituals and practices of the Japanese warrior cult. Will...