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A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era

1957 ★ 7.0

Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He makes the best of his situation by performing various tasks amidst t

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Rurouni Kenshin

2023 ★ 8.3

Ten years have passed since the end of Bakumatsu, an era of war that saw the uprising of citizens against the Tokugawa shogunate. The revolutionaries wanted to

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Battle Spirits [Re] ZEKKAI NO KU

2026 ★ 0.0

In the third year of the Keihō era, in Edo, the land of Hinomoto, a turbulent time later known as the Bakumatsu period: Battles known as Eternal, in which only

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Rurouni Kenshin Part I: Origins

2012 ★ 7.5

In 1868, after the Bakumatsu war ends, the ex-assassin Kenshin Himura traverses Japan with an inverted sword, to defend the needy without killing. Rurouni Kensh

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Song of the Samurai - Chapter: Youthful Days in Edo

2026 ★ 9.2

A live-action adaptation that translates this deep legacy to the screen. Set in Kyoto at the end of the Edo period, the story depicts the intense and passionate

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Rurouni Kenshin Part II: Kyoto Inferno

2014 ★ 7.6

Kenshin has settled into his new life with Kaoru and his other friends when he is approached with a request from the Meiji government. Makoto Shishio, a former

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The Tree In Sunlight

2000 ★ 7.0

A story set in the mid-1800's about a young doctor who has been trained in Western-style medicine and a young samurai who is trying to live up to the old tradit

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13 Assassins

2010 ★ 7.3

A bravado period action film set at the end of Japan's feudal era in which a group of unemployed samurai are enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord and prevent

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Rurouni Kenshin Part III: The Legend Ends

2014 ★ 7.7

Shishio sets sail in his ironclad ship to bring down the government. In order to stop him, Kenshin trains with his old master to learn his final technique. Acti

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11 Rebels

2024 ★ 6.9

When the brutal Boshin War breaks out in Japan, a group of inmates on death row unite to defend a fortress against the Imperial army. 11 Rebels is a 2024 Japane

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Love and Honor

2006 ★ 7.4

A look at the relationship between a young blind samurai and his wife, who will make a sacrifice in order to defend her husband's honor. Love and Honor is a 200

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Samurai Marathon

2019 ★ 6.0

When feudal lord Itakura Katsuakira decides to prepare his samurai troops for the onslaught of modernization by having them compete in a marathon, his independe

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Sanjuro

1962 ★ 7.9

In this companion piece and sequel to "Yojimbo," jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an idealistic group of young warriors weed out their clan's evil influences, and in

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The Haunted Samurai

2007 ★ 5.0

A lowly but academically diligent warrior named Bessho Hikoshiro finds himself unable to move up in the world due to the stifling caste system of the Bakumatsu

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The Twilight Samurai

2002 ★ 7.8

Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century. A widower with a meager income, Seibei struggles to take ca

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The Lower Depths

1957 ★ 7.1

Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and an aging actor, get drawn into a love triangle that turns violent

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The Sword of Doom

1966 ★ 7.7

Ryunosuke, a gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate rule, has no moral code and kills without remorse. It’s a way of lif

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The Hidden Blade

2004 ★ 7.4

Set in 19th Century Japan a young samurai who finds himself in love with a farm girl leaves his home to begin a new life. He has to take stock of his new life w

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Samurai Assassin

1965 ★ 7.4

Japan, 1860. The men of the Mito clan, victims of the Ansei purge, anxiously prowl around the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle with the intention of assassinating Na

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Tenchu!

1969 ★ 7.0

A ronin desperately seeks a way out of financial straits; he allies with the Tosa clan under the ruthless leader Takechi, who quickly takes advantage. History A

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Shadow Warriors

1980 ★ 8.0

Shadow Warriors is a Japanese television jidaigeki show featuring Sonny Chiba that ran for four seasons in the early 1980s. Chiba played different ninja charact

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Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning

2021 ★ 7.7

Before he was a protector, Kenshin was a fearsome assassin known as Battosai. But when he meets gentle Tomoe Yukishiro, a beautiful young woman who carries a hu

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Segodon

2018 ★ 8.3

Saigo Takamori, the hero of the Meiji Restoration, was born to a poor, low-ranking samurai family in the Satsuma domain (present day Kagoshima Prefecture). His

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Rurouni Kenshin: The Final

2021 ★ 7.7

In 1879, Kenshin and his allies face their strongest enemy yet: his former brother-in-law Enishi Yukishiro and his minions, who've vowed their revenge. The film

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