The Magoichi Saga

A group of ruthless gangsters, an unknown woman and an escaped convict have met, in The Forest of Resurrection, the 444th portal to the other side. Their troubles start when those once killed and buried in the forest come back from the dead.

Runtime

2h

Director

Ryuhei Kitamura

Cast

Tak Sakaguchi, Hideo Sakaki, Kenji Matsuda

Even though Gennosuke and Oboro are from rival ninja villages, they are secretly in love. At an annual conference with the Lord, it is dictated that a competition--a fight to the death--will take place between the five best shinobi from each village. Gennosuke and Oboro's love is made even more impossible when they each got picked as t...

Runtime

1h 47m

Director

Ten Shimoyama

Cast

Yukie Nakama, Joe Odagiri, Tomoka Kurotani

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

Runtime

1h 51m

Director

Hiroyuki Nakano

Cast

Morio Kazama, Tomoyasu Hotei, Tamaki Ogawa

In this companion piece and sequel to "Yojimbo," jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an idealistic group of young warriors weed out their clan's evil influences, and in the process turns their image of a proper samurai on its ear.

Runtime

1h 36m

Director

Akira Kurosawa

Cast

Toshirō Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Keiju Kobayashi

Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century. A widower with a meager income, Seibei struggles to take care of his two daughters and senile mother. New prospects seem to open up when the beautiful Tomoe, a childhood friend, comes back into he and his daughters' life, but as the Jap...

Runtime

2h 9m

Director

Yoji Yamada

Cast

Hiroyuki Sanada, Rie Miyazawa, Nenji Kobayashi

In the UK suburbs, an underground tournament is set to challenge twelve fighters from different backgrounds to compete for the price of £500,000. They have been handpicked for a no-holds barred competition that will push each fighter to their limit. Each fighter has their own reason for competing, and each will give everything they've ...

Runtime

1h 35m

Director

Chee Keong Cheung

Cast

Mark Strange, Nathan Lewis, Joey Ansah

Leung is the bodyguard of a Chinese Triad boss, Wong, to whom his loyalty is unrivaled. Living in Hong Kong, Wong requests that his bodyguard travel to the UK to protect a young British woman, whose true identity is known only by Wong himself. Even Wong's son, Yuen, is kept in the dark, which leads to a betrayal that threatens to destr...

Runtime

1h 35m

Director

Chee Keong Cheung

Cast

Vincent Sze Cho-Lam, Richard Ng Yiu-Hon, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa