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The difficult life of a boy and his single mother looks set to change when they take in an Edo-era samurai warrior who has been magically transported to their time.
Agent for DRAGON sets out to rescue kidnapped girlfriend.
A 77-minute, one-scene, no-cut action sequence in which samurai Miyamoto defeats 588 enemies, one after the other.
A modern-day contract killer in New York, who works according to the Samurai code.
Takashi Miike follows 13 Assassins with a neo-classical remake of the Yasuhiko Takiguchi story about desperate, impoverished ronin and implacably cruel feudal lords.
Tom Cruise goes native in Japan in the years when honour was prized more highly than life itself.
The chief retainer of a small domain in Echigo called Nagaoka is caught between the Eastern and Western armies after the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate.
A young police officer is drawn into a mysterious maniac's murderous plans.
A man obsessed with avenging his late wife, mown down by a hit-and-run driver, threatens to kill the guilty driver... but will he find his inner samurai to act on the threat?
A village enlists a group of samurai to defend them from bandits.
The samurai as a single parent in 19th century Japan.
A creative time capsule Gudrun Gut and Heiko Lange with Ed Bahlman on Alexander von Sturmfeder and B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989
Dancing, in a more violent way Olga Kurylenko on stunts, comedy, work-life balance and Chief Of Station
Insult and injury MH Murray, Mark Clennon and Nat Patricia Manuel on I Don’t Know Who You Are
Home truths Intercepted director Oksana Karpovych on aggression and resistance in Ukraine
Bad influence Natasha Henstridge on Cinderella's Revenge
Documentaries for Ukraine fundraising screening Edinburgh College of Art hosts charity event
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