Samurai Movies

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

Bored Hatamoto film #9

Bored Hatamoto film #4

The legendary tale of the forty-seven samurai and their mission to avenge the death of their master.

Historical drama about two samurai who fight over everything yet unite together to fight an evil lord.

A particular day of a samurai

Bored Hatamoto film #5

THE DUEL OF FATES is a Japanese revenge tale set in Edo period that follows a disgraced Rōnin whose plan to kill the Lord is halted by a man he...

A farmer walking in the woods is frightened away by a shapeshifting fox, who then disguises himself as a samurai and makes his way to a temple,...

Bored Hatamoto film #1

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

Hana leads a boring life between work and hobby, until one day she suddenly travels through time to ancient Edo, before the Western powers had opened...

Bored Hatamoto film #3

Ryôma Sakamoto unites the Choshu and Satsuma clans and paves the way for the Meiji Restoration.

Jean-Christophe Charbonnier, a specialist on the topic of Japanese warfare, takes us through the implementation of weaponry, armor, and suicide...

Among the many famous 16th-century samurai who made the leap from myth and ukiyo-e to early cinema screen was sword-master Miyamoto Musashi,...

Two stubborn Samurai fight a meaningless battle for a woman's hand. Treachery, murder and lost honour are unleashed in the course of a magic year in...

Short cartoon about samurais been ambushed.

A group of bandits flee to the mountains after killing an evil moneylender.