Tragicomic road movie set during the Edo period. It follows a samurai, his two servants – including spear-carrier Genpachi – and the various people they meet on their journey, including a policeman in pursuit of a thief, a young child and a woman who is to be sold into prostitution.
片岡千恵蔵
Genpachi
加東大介
Genta
片岡栄二郎
Sakawa Kojūrō
植木基晴
Jirō
植木千恵
Okin, the Shamisen Player's Daughter
月形龍之介
Tōzaburō
喜多川千鶴
Shamisen Player
田代百合子
Otane
進藤英太郎
Pilgrim
Tragicomic road movie set during the Edo period. It follows a samurai, his two servants – including spear-carrier Genpachi – and the various people they meet on their journey, including a policeman in pursuit of a thief, a young child and a woman who is to be sold into prostitution.
A sadistic Daimyo (feudal lord) rapes a woman and murders both her and her husband, but even when one of his own vassals commits suicide to bring attention to the crime, the matter is quickly hushed up. Not only will there be no punishment, but because the Daimyo is the Shogun's younger brother, he will soon be appointed to a high political position from which he could wreak even more havoc. Convinced that the fate of the Shogunate hangs in the balance, a plot is hatched to assassinate the Daimyo. The two most brilliant strategic minds of their generation find themselves pitted against each other; one is tasked to defend a man he despises, and has a small army at his disposal. The other is given a suicide mission, and has 12 brave men. They are the 13 Assassins.
Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to become a mighty samurai warrior.
After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu waits for him, yet he has come not for her but to challenge the leader of the region's finest school of fencing. To prove his valor and skill, he walks deliberately into ambushes set up by the school's followers.
The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped by the lord. Her husband and his samurai father must decide whether to accept the unjust decision, or risk death to rescue her.
เมื่อเจ้าศักดินาอิตาคุระ คัตสึอากิระ ตัดสินใจเตรียมกองกำลังซามูไรของเขาเพื่อรับมือกับการเปลี่ยนแปลงครั้งใหญ่ด้วยการให้พวกเขาเข้าแข่งขันมาราธอน ยูกิ ลูกสาวผู้มีความคิดเป็นอิสระก็เข้าร่วมการแข่งขันนี้ด้วยอย่างลับๆ
นาริทซูกุ ซึ่งเป็นน้องชายต่างมารดาของท่านโชกุนมีจิตใจโหดเหี้ยมฆ่าคนเป็นว่าเล่น ดังนั้น โดอิจึงขอคำสั่งจากท่านดชกุนอย่างลับๆ และโดอมีคำสั่งต่อลงมาถึง ชินซาเอม่อนให้รวบรวมคนไปฆ่า นาริทซูกุอย่างเงียบๆ ดังนั้นซินซาเอม่อน จึงต้องรวบรวมซามูไรฝีมือดีไปดักฆ่านาริทซูกุ ระหว่างทางที่เขาเดินทางกลับบ้านเกิดพร้อมคณะติดตามซึ่งนำคณะโดย ฮัมเบ ซามูไรและข้ารับใช้ผู้ซื้อสัตย์ ชินซาเอม่อน รวบรวมคนได้ทั้งหมด 13 คนและทำการปิดหมู่บ้านเพื่อฆ่านาริทซูกุ แต่นาริทซูกุและฮัมเบรู้แผนการณ์ พวกเขาจึงนำทหารติดตามไปด้วยถึง 200 คน
Zatoichi comes upon the town of Tonda, overrun by gangsters. Using one of his favorite techniques, Zatoichi proceeds to win 8 ryo in a rigged gambling game. Of course, the local gangsters attempt to kill him, and the adventure begins. It turns out a blacksmith named Senzo examines Zatoichi's cane sword, and discovers it to be forged by his old mentor. Senzo discovers the sword is at the end of its usefulness and will break when it is used next.
A group of travelers is stranded in a small country inn when the river floods during heavy rains. As the bad weather continues, tensions rise amongst the trapped travelers.
With most of his family already dead at Ogami Itto's hands, Retsudo launches one final plot to destroy him, and when that fails, unleashes the fury of every remaining member of the Yagyu clan.
Official Shogunate executioner Ogami Itto has been framed for disloyalty to the Shogunate by the Yagyu clan, against whom he now is waging a one-man war, along with his infant son, Daigoro.