Japanese

This instructional film features Don Shapland teaching the principles of Isshin-Ryu Karate. It covers fundamental techniques, including stances, strikes, blocks, and kata, with an emphasis on proper...

Fast-paced Japanese action movie in which a pair of gangsters do battle in unconventional fashion. When Shonzo Iwaki (Tak Sakaguchi) returns to Japan from South America he is enraged to learn that...

Ichi seeks out on a pilgrimage to 81 temples, exploring spirituality to atone for his bloody past. On the way, Ichi stumbles into a village that's being bullied by a violent Yakuza boss and his...

Set in Japanese Warring States period. The main character is legendary master thief Goemon Ishikawa (Yosuke Eguchi). A box that Goemon steals one night contains a big secret that would destabilize...

Follow the  series of six films based on the long-running manga concerns Ogami Itto (Tomisaburo Wakayama), a shogun's executioner who is framed by the Yagyu clan and forced into exile as a wandering...

Zen is a fascinating and elegant look into the life of a Zen monk showing the life of a 13th Century Monk Dogen. While in China he reaches satori or enlightenment and returns to Kyoto where he is met...

47 Ronin is a 2013 American 3D period fantasy action-adventure film directed by Carl Rinsch. Written by Chris Morgan and Hossein Amini from a story by Morgan and Walter Hamada, the film is a work of...

Baby Cart In Peril: is the fourth of the internationally renowned "Lone Wolf And Cub" productions. Lone Wolf (Ogami Itto) is separated from his Cub, Daigoro, in the course of a mission to find and...

Set in Japanese Warring States period. The main character is legendary master thief Goemon Ishikawa (Yosuke Eguchi). A box that Goemon steals one night contains a big secret that would destabilize...

Idiosyncratic Japanese auteur Takashi Miike offers another meditation on a violent culture in this teen-themed thriller. Genji Takaya (Shun Oguri) is a teenage troublemaker whose father, Hideo (Goro...

As soon as the band of ten Samurai in training including Azumi (Aya Ueto) the only swordswoman among them is subjected to its final test. Once again Kitamura demonstrates his awesome skills into...

A fabulous documentary by one of the greatest karate ka ever Master Fumio Demura 10th Dan and American Icon and Legend.  Learn all about his early years in Japan, his fascinating life story is...

Starring Sonny Chiba this film is a terrific story in full color of 8 Samurai.  If you like action swords and a good story line this is for you.