Samurai Movies

Bored Hatamoto film #3

Bored Hatamoto movie #11

O-Kiyo (Mitsuko Mito), who had escaped from her boss, Shoden, who controlled the Sensoji Temple district, was desperately contemplating suicide when...

Bored Hatamoto movie #14

Explores the ambiguity of sensations, the boundaries between pleasure and pain, a filmmaker's piece about death as the final fetish and the ritual...

Manuel is an extremely shy 12-year-old boy who escapes reality through a samurai obsession. One day, a mysterious cowboy kid crosses his path. This...

Set against the backdrop of the Aburanokoji incident, revered as the emblem of the Shinsengumi's decline, this captivating period drama intricately...

Impressionistic silent short film (also known as ‘Kaze. Ippun yonjûbyô’) created by 17-year-old high school student Shinozuka...

Bored Hatamoto film #1

From resting trees, to violent waters, to blood splattered in the dirt. A wanderer searches for tranquility in 13th century Japan during the Mongol...

This is a standalone movie, based on the long-running television series about Shogun Yoshimune. When the very foundation of the government is shaken...

Bored Hatamoto film #5

A samurai comes to the aid of his uncle in a duel.

An early Japanese tokusatsu film, with fantasy and sci-fi elements.

A samurai returns to his homeland after a three year absence and finds his fiance is now one of the prince's concubines.

Bored Hatamoto film #9

Near the end of the shogunate in Japan, Katsura Shogoro and his fellow samurai from the southwestern domain of Choshu enter the dojo of Saito Yakuro,...

Bored Hatamoto film #2

Edo-period samurai Araki Mataemon and his brother-in-law Watanabe Kazuma seek revenge on Kawai Matagoro. Paper film produced using celuloid from...

A narrator relates the Japanese tale of two lovers who defy their families and society to be together. The tale ends happily, until something happens...