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Samurai Banners is a 1969 Japanese historical epic directed by Hiroshi Inagaki and based on a novel by Yasushi Inoue. It is set during the Sengoku period and centers on the samurai Yamamoto Kansuke, played by Toshiro Mifune, as he rises in the service of warlord Takeda Shingen. The story follows Kan...

Hitokiri is a 1969 Japanese historical drama film directed by Hideo Gosha. The narrative is set during the Bakumatsu period and follows a historical assassin manipulated by political factions during the final years of the Tokugawa shogunate. The film stars Shintaro Katsu and features Raizo Ichikawa...

Shinsengumi is a 1969 Japanese jidaigeki film directed by Tadashi Sawashima. It dramatizes the historical activities of the Shinsengumi, a special police force that operated in Kyoto during the late Edo period. The film belongs to the samurai and period-drama tradition, using the group's internal an...

"Incident at Blood Pass" is a 1970 jidaigeki film directed by Hiroshi Inagaki and produced by Toho. The film stars Toshiro Mifune as a wandering ronin who arrives at a mountain pass inn and becomes entangled in a criminal conspiracy. It is a period drama set during Japan's feudal era, representative...

"Samurai Assassin" is a 1965 Japanese jidaigeki film directed by Kihachi Okamoto. It stars Toshiro Mifune as a wandering ronin who becomes entangled in the complex political conspiracies of the late Edo period. The narrative builds toward the historical Sakuradamon Incident of 1860, an assassination...

Red Lion is a 1969 Japanese historical comedy-drama directed by Kihachi Okamoto and starring Toshiro Mifune. Set during the Boshin War and the transition from the Tokugawa shogunate to imperial rule, it follows a peasant who joins a political army and returns to his home village wearing the unit's s...

*The Yagyu Clan Conspiracy* is a 1978 Japanese jidaigeki film directed by Kinji Fukasaku. It dramatizes a fictionalized political intrigue during the early Edo period, focusing on the Yagyu clan's ruthless manipulation of the Tokugawa shogunate's succession. The film stars Sonny Chiba as the legenda...

Machibuse, also released internationally as Ambush, is a 1970 Japanese jidaigeki film directed by acclaimed filmmaker Hiroshi Inagaki. The plot follows a wandering swordsman, portrayed by frequent collaborator Toshiro Mifune, who becomes entangled in a deadly standoff at a rural post town. The narra...

Kojiro is the English title commonly used for Sasaki Kojiro, a 1967 Japanese drama directed by Hiroshi Inagaki. The film presents a fictionalized account of the swordsman Sasaki Kojiro and his rivalry with Miyamoto Musashi, building toward their famous confrontation at Ganryujima; its historical sub...

Ambush at Blood Pass is a 1970 Japanese jidaigeki, or period swordplay film, directed by Hiroshi Inagaki. It is notable for bringing together Toshiro Mifune, an actor associated with Japanese period cinema, and Shintaro Katsu, who played the blind swordsman Zatoichi in a separate long-running film s...

Samurai Saga is a 1959 Japanese jidaigeki directed by Hiroshi Inagaki. The film adapts the central situation of Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac to feudal Japan, using a warrior’s unspoken love and loyalty to recast the source play’s themes within a samurai setting. It is suited to viewers intere...

Whirlwind is a 1964 Japanese historical drama directed by Hiroshi Inagaki and produced by Toho. Set in the seventeenth century, the film concerns events following the Siege of Osaka and features Toshiro Mifune in its cast. Its production also involved special effects by Eiji Tsuburaya, linking the p...

Shogun's Shadow is a 1989 Japanese historical action film directed by Yasuo Furuhata. Its story follows a group charged with protecting a young Tokugawa heir while opposing forces pursue the child, placing sword fighting and pursuit scenes within a succession struggle. The cast includes Ken Ogata, S...

The Gambling Samurai is the English title used for Kunisada Chuji, a 1960 Japanese jidaigeki directed by Senkichi Taniguchi and written by Kaneto Shindo. Toshiro Mifune plays Kunisada Chuji, a historical outlaw figure who returns to his home village and confronts the damage caused by a corrupt magis...

1959 Japanese period film directed by Toshio Sugie, featuring Toshiro Mifune as a wandering swordsman who rallies a band of outcasts against a corrupt local clan.