Samurai Fiction

Oct 27, 1998

1h 51m

★ 6.7

Overview

A warrior-in-training and his bumbling friends go in pursuit of a stolen sword.

Genres

Action

Comedy

Production Companies

Pony Canyon

Samurai Fiction Trailers

Cast

Hanbei Mizoguchi

Morio Kazama

Rannosuke Kazamatsuri

Tomoyasu Hotei

Koharu Mizoguchi

Tamaki Ogawa

Heishiro Inukai

Mitsuru Fukikoshi

Okatsu

Mari Natsuki

Kanzen Inukai

Taketoshi Naitō

Kagemaru

Kei Tani

Ryunosuke Kuzumi

Fumiya Fujii

Shintarô Suzuki

Naoyuki Fujii

Tadasuke Kurosawa

Ken Osawa

Gosuke

Hiroshi Kanbe

Ninja Hayabusa

Ryôichi Yuki

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, which finds him learning to respect the samurai and the honorable principles that rule them. Pressed to destroy the samurai's way of life in the name of modernization and open trade, Algren decides to become an ultimate warrior himself and to fight for their right to exist.

7.2

Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children

Jul 14, 2005

Two years have passed since the final battle with Sephiroth. Though Midgar, city of mako, city of prosperity, has been reduced to ruins, its people slowly but steadily walk the road to reconstruction. However, a mysterious illness called Geostigma torments them. With no cure in sight, it brings death to the afflicted, one after another, robbing the people of their fledgling hope.

6.6

You Only Live Twice

Jun 13, 1967

A mysterious spacecraft captures Russian and American space capsules and brings the two superpowers to the brink of war. James Bond investigates the case in Japan and comes face to face with his archenemy Blofeld.

7.3

Army of Darkness

Oct 31, 1992

Ash, a handsome, shotgun-toting, chainsaw-armed department store clerk, is time warped backwards into England's Dark Ages, where he romances a beauty and faces legions of the undead.

7.8

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Apr 3, 1975

King Arthur, accompanied by his squire, recruits his Knights of the Round Table, including Sir Bedevere the Wise, Sir Lancelot the Brave, Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-As-Sir-Lancelot and Sir Galahad the Pure. On the way, Arthur battles the Black Knight who, despite having had all his limbs chopped off, insists he can still fight. They reach Camelot, but Arthur decides not to enter, as "it is a silly place".

5.8

Joe Butterfly

May 29, 1957

The staff of "Yank" magazine are among the first American troops into Tokyo after the Japanese surrender. Their mission: produce an issue of the magazine...in three days. To accomplish the seeming impossible, they reluctantly enlist the aid of black marketeer and arch-conniver Joe Butterfly, who sets them up in a palatial private mansion, complete with lovely daughter -- strictly against regulations. How much trouble can our heroes talk their way out of?

5.0

Touken Ranbu 2

Mar 31, 2023

In the year 995, due to a secret talk between Michinaga Fujiwara (Akira Emoto) and Seimei Abe (Terunosuke Takezai), Yorimitsu Minamoto (Kanji Tsuda) is ordered to subjugate ghost Shutendoji, who lives in Oe Mountain. Yorimitsu Minamoto and his men soon encounter difficulties in carrying out their mission due to the appearance of strangers. These strangers are handsome warriors Munechika Mikazuki (Hiroki Suzuki), Kunihiro Yamanbagiri (Yoshihiko Aramaki), Hasebe Heshikiri (Masanari Wada), and Toushirou Honebami (Fuma Sadamoto) and they are trying to protect history.

6.5

Whipmaster: Ballad of Murder

Nov 11, 1970

Ryotatsu, the wayward Priest blinded by Shinkai, the Wicked Priest, has his own story in this ultra-violent tale from the era of the Meiji Reconstruction. When a woman leaves her blind son at the Monastery, Ryotatsu is forced to teach the boy how to cope as a blind person in old Japan. When he takes the child with him on the road to find the boy's mother, they run afoul of not only yakuza gangsters, but some corrupt army officers have been trying to sway public opinion against the Satsuma rebels by posing as members of Saigo Takamori's group. It's a bloody mistake for them to underestimate the strength of the Blind Priest, and he'll make them pay with their lives!

5.4

Wolfhound of the Grey Dog Clan

Dec 28, 2006

He was doomed to die, but managed to survive, and now his mission is to revenge for the annihilation of his tribe. He is the great warrior who calls himself Volkodav, and is the last man from the tribe of Serie Psi (Grey Hounds). After escaping certain death, Volkodaw — accompanied by Neletuchaya Mysh — is on a mission to kill Ludoed who is responsible to what happened to Serie Psi.

7.1

Sweet Rain: Accuracy of Death

Apr 22, 2008

Chiba appears seven days before a person dies an unexpected death. His job is to observe the person for seven days then decide either to ‘execute’ or ‘pass over’. Today, again, in the rain, he waits. His subject, her death due in seven days, is Kazue Fujiki. She works for a manufacturing company in the complaints department. Exhausted after her day, she emerges from her office. It’s time for the Reaper to go to work.

7.7

Always - Sunset on Third Street

Nov 11, 2005

Teenage Mutsuko comes to Tokyo for work but ends up at a repair shop. She befriends the owner's family. Neighbors Hiromi, writer Chagawa with admirer Junnosuke strive alongside them in postwar Tokyo's evolution.

6.3

Arn: The Knight Templar

Dec 25, 2007

Arn, the son of a high-ranking Swedish nobleman is educated in a monastery and sent to the Holy Land as a knight templar to do penance for a forbidden love.

5.7

Red Sonja

Jul 31, 2025

A young girl rises from the ashes of tragedy to become the most feared warrior woman of all time: the She-Devil with a Sword.

6.2

Yours, Mine & Ours

Nov 23, 2005

Admiral Frank Beardsley returns to New London to run the Coast Guard Academy, his last stop before a probable promotion to head the Guard. A widower with eight children, he runs a loving but tight ship, with charts and salutes. The kids long for a permanent home. Helen North is a free spirit, a designer whose ten children live in loving chaos, with occasional group hugs. Helen and Frank, high school sweethearts, reconnect at a reunion, and it's love at first re-sighting. They marry on the spot. Then the problems start as two sets of kids, the free spirits and the disciplined preppies, must live together. The warring factions agree to work together to end the marriage.

5.7

Umami

Feb 9, 2023

Following a near-death experience France's leading chef throws himself into a quest seeking the flavor that has confounded his life since he was defeated by a Japanese chef's bowl of noodles as a young man.

6.2

Sukiyaki Western Django

Sep 15, 2007

A nameless gunfighter arrives in a town ripped apart by rival gangs and, though courted by both to join, chooses his own path.

6.0

Gung Ho

Mar 14, 1986

When a western Pennsylvania auto plant is acquired by a Japanese company, brokering auto worker Hunt Stevenson faces the tricky challenge of mediating the assimilation of two clashing corporate cultures. At one end is the Japanese plant manager and the sycophant who is angling for his position. At the other, a number of disgruntled long-time union members struggle with the new exigencies of Japanese quality control.

7.3

House

Aug 26, 1977

Hoping to find a sense of connection to her late mother, Gorgeous takes a trip with her friends to visit her aunt's ancestral house in the countryside. The girls soon discover that there is more to the old house than meets the eye.

4.8

Hawk the Slayer

Aug 27, 1980

Hawk the Slayer, after seeing both his father and bride die at the hands of his malevolent brother, Voltan, sets out for revenge and the chance to live up to his title. Tooling himself up with the "mind-sword" and recruiting a motley band of warriors — a giant, a dwarf, a one-armed man with a machine-crossbow, and an elf with the fastest bow in the land — Hawk leads the battle against Voltan to free the land from the forces of evil and avenge his loved ones.

7.3

Kamome Diner

Jun 11, 2006

On a quiet street in Helsinki, Sachie has opened a diner featuring rice balls. For a month she has no customers. Then, in short order, she has her first customer, meets Midori, a gangly Japanese tourist, and invites her to stay with her.

Cast

Hanbei Mizoguchi

Morio Kazama

Rannosuke Kazamatsuri

Tomoyasu Hotei

Koharu Mizoguchi

Tamaki Ogawa

Heishiro Inukai

Mitsuru Fukikoshi

Okatsu

Mari Natsuki

Kanzen Inukai

Taketoshi Naitō

Kagemaru

Kei Tani

Ryunosuke Kuzumi

Fumiya Fujii

Shintarô Suzuki

Naoyuki Fujii

Tadasuke Kurosawa

Ken Osawa

Gosuke

Hiroshi Kanbe

Ninja Hayabusa

Samurai Fiction

Overview

Genres

Production Companies

Samurai Fiction Trailers

Cast

Morio Kazama

Tomoyasu Hotei

Tamaki Ogawa

Mitsuru Fukikoshi

Mari Natsuki

Taketoshi Naitō

Kei Tani

Fumiya Fujii

Naoyuki Fujii

Ken Osawa

Hiroshi Kanbe

Ryôichi Yuki

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Hawk the Slayer

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Cast

Morio Kazama

Tomoyasu Hotei

Tamaki Ogawa

Mitsuru Fukikoshi

Mari Natsuki

Taketoshi Naitō

Kei Tani

Fumiya Fujii

Naoyuki Fujii

Ken Osawa

Hiroshi Kanbe

Ryôichi Yuki

Samurai Fiction Trailers

You may also like

The Last Samurai

Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children

You Only Live Twice

Army of Darkness

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Joe Butterfly

Touken Ranbu 2

Whipmaster: Ballad of Murder

Wolfhound of the Grey Dog Clan

Sweet Rain: Accuracy of Death

Always - Sunset on Third Street

Arn: The Knight Templar

Red Sonja

Yours, Mine & Ours

Umami

Sukiyaki Western Django

Gung Ho

House

Hawk the Slayer

Kamome Diner