După ce un războinic le ucide maestrul și îi declară proscriși, 47 de samurai rămași fără stăpân jură să se răzbune și să-și recâștige onoarea. Goniți din casele lor și împrăștiați prin tot ținutul, acești ronini se văd nevoiți să apeleze la ajutorul lui Kai, un samurai de rang inferior, pe care odinioară îl repudiaseră, pentru a-și croi drum printr-o lume de bestii mistice, vrăjitorii și teroare fantasmagorică. Acest renegat exilat și devenit sclav devine cea mai mortal armă a lor, transformându-se într-un erou care le va da acestor rebeli depășiți numeric de dușman imboldul de a căuta nemurirea

A bravado period action film set at the end of Japan's feudal era in which a group of unemployed samurai are enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord and prevent him from ascending to the throne and plunging the country into a war-torn future.

Kobayashi ne descrie vidul și lipsa de umanitate a codului samurailor într-un film anti-tradițional. Povestea se desfășoară într-un sistem ingenios de flash-back-uri, împletind armonios trecutul cu prezentul

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the local gambling trade. Taking the name Sanjuro Kuwabatake, the ronin convinces both silk merchant Tazaemon and sake merchant Tokuemon to hire him as a personal bodyguard, then artfully sets in motion a full-scale gang war between the two ambitious and unscrupulous men.

A tale of revenge, honor and disgrace, centering on a poverty-stricken samurai who discovers the fate of his ronin son-in-law, setting in motion a tense showdown of vengeance against the house of a feudal lord.

In the second film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto battles a group of female ninja in the employ of the Yagyu clan and must assassinate a traitor who plans to sell his clan's secrets to the Shogunate.

A group of travelers is stranded in a small country inn when the river floods during heavy rains. As the bad weather continues, tensions rise amongst the trapped travelers.

Blestemat să fie nemuritor, talentatul spadasin Manji acceptă să devină protectorul unei tinere, jurând să răzbune uciderea familiei acesteia.

The adventures of a blind, gambling masseur and master swordsman. Zatoichi targets a yakuza-controlled village, because war with a neighbouring town's smaller gang is brewing.

Shiba, un ronin rătăcitor, întâlnește o bandă de țărani care au răpit-o pe fiica magistratului lor dictatorial, în speranța de a-i constrânge la o reducere a taxelor. Shiba începe lupta lor, alături de doi renegați din garda magistratului, Sakura și Kikyo. Cei trei haiduci se trezesc într-o luptă până la moarte.

Ascensiunea lui Musashi Miyamoto, cunoscut încă sub numele de Takezo, la titlul de cel mai puternic samurai din istoria Japoniei continuă. După ce a fost solicitat ca instructor de scrimă de către Shogun, Takezo acceptă provocarea unui samurai foarte priceput: Kojiro Sasaki. În anul dinaintea provocării finale, Takezo se retrage într-un mic sat pentru a cultiva pământul, urmat de două femei ambele îndrăgostite de el.

Legendary swordplay filmmaker Hideo Gosha's Sword of the Beast chronicles the flight of the low-level swordsman Gennosuke, who kills one of his ministers as part of a reform plot. His former comrades then turn on him, and this betrayal so shakes his sense of honor that he decides to live in the wild, like an animal. There he joins up with a motley group who are illegally mining the shogun’s gold, and, with the aid of another swordsman, gets a chance not just at survival but to recover his name and honor.

In 1701, Lord Takuminokami Asano has a feud with Lord Kira and he tries to kill Kira in the corridors of the Shogun's palace. The Shogun sentences Lord Asano to commit suppuku and deprives the palace and lands from his clan, but does not punish Lord Kira. Lord Asano's vassals leave the land and his samurais become ronin and want to seek revenge against the dishonor of their Lord. But their leader Kuranosuke Oishi asks the Shogun to restore the Asano clan with his brother Daigaku Asano. One year later, the Shogun refuses his request and Oishi and forty-six ronin revenge their Lord.

Gengobe Satsuma, an exiled samurai cast out as an Asano clan retainer is given a second chance to join his brothers in arms to become the 48th Ronin against the Shogunate. His faithful servant gathers the 100 ryo required for his acceptance. Gengobe is also in love with a greedy geisha named Koman. About to be sold to another man, Gengobe learns that for him to keep her, her debt is exactly 100 ryo.

Japan, 1860. The men of the Mito clan, victims of the Ansei purge, anxiously prowl around the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle with the intention of assassinating Naosuke Ii of Hikone, tairō of the Tokugawa shogunate and responsible for their misfortune.

A pair of down-on-their-luck swordsmen arrive in a dusty, windblown town, where they become involved in a local clan dispute. One, previously a farmer, longs to become a noble samurai. The other, a former samurai haunted by his past, prefers living anonymously with gangsters. But when both men discover the wrongdoings of the nefarious clan leader, they side with a band of rebels who are under siege at a remote mountain cabin.

In Edo period Japan, a lone ronin spends time in a village helping the farmers tend to their land. To keep his sword skills sharp, he spars daily with a farmer's son. Meanwhile, the nation is in the midst of major unrest with civil war on the horizon. One day, a group of outlaw ronin enters the village.

Wife in former life plagues husband as ghost in the present

Kane Madison is an architect working in Los Angeles while his doppelganger-like spirit, an eighteenth century Ronin, wanders a parallel netherworld of masked demons and Japanese swordsmen. When tragedy strikes, Kane embarks on a journey of faith which prompts the Ronin to seek out his true master in the spirit world... both will face many battles along their interweaving roads to peace.

The Bohachi Clan, the most vile, corrupt organization with ties deep in the Shogunate, have controlled the flesh trade in Japan for generations. When threatened by a competitor, they employ Saburai, a nihilistic ronin on the verge of self destruction. Blood gushes and limbs fly for anyone who stands against Saburai as he instills the Way of the Bohachi.