Veteran Japanese producer and Tokyo Film Festival programmer Shozo Ichiyama selects his all-time favorite samurai films, ...

Echizen Fukui Domain. Futago Rokubei, who backs down even at the sight of a gecko, is called "Coward Samurai" by others. His sister Kane blames him for not having any marriage proposals.

In the Edo period of Japan a samurais life belonged to his lord On the battlefield or in the home a loyal samurai must always obey his lords commands This is the tragic story of one such loyal ...