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1968 Japanese comedy-samurai film directed by Kihachi Okamoto in which a cynical ronin and an aspiring farmer inadvertently find themselves exchanging life ambitions.

Hana is a 2006 Japanese period comedy-drama directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda. Set among common residents of an Edo tenement, it follows a young samurai who is expected to avenge his father's death but lacks both enthusiasm for violence and certainty about the values behind his mission. The film uses th...

"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...

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...

Ronin Gai is a 1990 Japanese period film directed by Kazuo Kuroki. Set during the late Edo period, it follows impoverished ronin who live as social outsiders in and around a red-light district. The film combines sword fighting and drama with a portrait of precarious urban life, making it suitable fo...

Samurai Wolf is a 1966 Japanese chambara film directed by Hideo Gosha. It follows a wandering swordsman and uses the conventions of the lone ronin story to explore violence, loyalty, and personal motives. The film is associated with Gosha's gritty, character-focused approach to jidaigeki and with a...

Samurai Wolf II is a 1967 Japanese action drama directed by Hideo Gosha and the second, final film in the Samurai Wolf series. It follows the nomadic swordsman Kiba Okaminosuke as he moves through rural Japan, continuing the character and visual approach established by the first film. The sequel ret...

Sleepy Eyes of Death: The Chinese Jade is a 1963 Japanese period film and the first entry in Daiei's Sleepy Eyes of Death series. It stars Raizō Ichikawa as Nemuri Kyōshirō, a detached and highly skilled swordsman whose involvement in political intrigue and violence places him in conflict with figur...

Sleepy Eyes of Death: Hell Is a Woman is an entry in Daiei Film's Nemuri Kyoshiro series of Japanese period action films. Raizō Ichikawa plays Nemuri Kyoshiro, a wandering swordsman portrayed as emotionally detached, skilled, and socially alienated. The character's unusual mixed European and Japanes...

Sleepy Eyes of Death: Sword of Seduction is part of Daiei Film's Nemuri Kyoshiro chambara series, which starred Raizō Ichikawa as the wandering swordsman Nemuri Kyoshiro. The films are set in the Edo period and combine sword fights, intrigue, and a protagonist portrayed as a detached and morally com...

Sleepy Eyes of Death: Full Circle Killing is one of the Japanese period films in the Nemuri Kyoshiro series produced by Daiei Film. The series stars Raizō Ichikawa as Nemuri Kyoshiro, a wandering swordsman and ronin whose identity includes Portuguese ancestry and whose detached manner contrasts with...

Sleepy Eyes of Death: Sword of Satan is a Japanese chambara film from 1965 and the sixth entry in the Daiei series featuring Raizo Ichikawa as the wandering swordsman Nemuri Kyoshiro. The character is portrayed as the son of a European missionary and a Japanese courtesan, a detail that distinguishes...

Daiei Film Nemuri Kyoshiro installment starring Raizo Ichikawa as the brooding half-Portuguese swordsman, part of a popular chambara series produced between 1963 and 1969.

One of twelve Daiei Film chambara installments starring Raizo Ichikawa as the cynical half-European swordsman Nemuri Kyoshiro, adapted from Renzaburo Shibata's novels.

Daiei Film production in the long-running Nemuri Kyoshiro series, with Raizo Ichikawa as the nihilistic ronin whose signature Full Moon Cut dispatches enemies in each entry.

Sleepy Eyes of Death: Sword of Villainy is a Japanese period film from the Nemuri Kyoshiro series, based on the novels by Renzaburo Shibata. It features Raizo Ichikawa as Nemuri Kyoshiro, a wandering swordsman and ronin marked by his mixed European and Japanese ancestry. Released by Daiei Film in 19...