Screenplay: Ryotaro Shiba

Direction Hideo Gosha

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Tatsuya Nakadai · Yukio Mishima · Yujiro Ishihara

Plot Izo Okada, a ronin (masterless samurai), desperately seeks a way out of his financial straits. He allies himself with the Tosa clan under the ruthless leader, Takechi, and imagines that...

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Tetsurô Tanba · Eiji Okada · Eitarô Ozawa · Isao Kimura

Plot The film follows the brief life of Hachiro Kiyokawa, an ambitious ronin (master-less samurai) in a time of political tumult in 19th Century Japan. Kiyokawa, a mysterious character and expert...

Direction Masato Harada

Cast Kôji Yakusho · Junichi Okada · Kasumi Arimura

Plot A depiction of Japan's 17th Century Battle of Sekigahara where the Army of the East takes up arms against the Army of the West.

Direction Masato Harada

Cast Junichi Okada · Kou Shibasaki · Ryôhei Suzuki · Ryôsuke Yamada

Plot Set in the 19th century, follows the life of Toshizo Hijikata. He was the vice-commander of the Shinsengumi and fought against the Meiji Restoration.

Direction Kenji Misumi

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Komaki Kurihara · Kojiro Hongo · Katsuo Nakamura

Plot In Magoichi Saga (Shirikurae Magoichi, Daiei,1969) Magoichi Saika (Kinnosuke Nakamura) has fallen in love with a woman whose face he never saw. With an apparent foot fetish obsession, he spends...

Direction Tai Kato

Cast Hashizo Okawa · Hiroko Sakuramachi · Naoko Kubo · Sanae Nakahara

Plot The film tells the story of the womenizing ninja named Nabari Shinzo (Hashizo Okawa) during the Tokugawa shogunate. Hired on a mission by the government, Shinzo soon finds himself in...

Direction Daisuke Itô

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Toshirô Mifune · Keiju Kobayashi · Tatsuya Nakadai

Direction Shigehiro Ozawa

Cast Utaemon Ichikawa · Takeshi Katô · Kei Sato · Ryuuji Shinagawa

Direction Mikio Sato · Taku Katô · Takeshi Shibata · Takafumi Kimura

Cast Masahiro Motoki · Hiroshi Abe · Teruyuki Kagawa · Miho Kanno

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Kiichi Nakai · Mayu Tsuruta · Riona Hazuki · Takaya Kamikawa

Plot As the great military commander Nobunaga Oda was consolidating his power across Japan, one of his actions was to wipe out a clan of assassins, killing every man, woman and...