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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 samurai who gets hit by lightning wakes up to find himself on a film set in the present day and starts to work as an extra on samurai films.
A village enlists a group of samurai to defend them from bandits.
The samurai as a single parent in 19th century Japan.
Expanding the possible Fernanda Salgado on fantasy, reality, Jan Švankmajer and Ana, En Passant
A burning thing Sneha Mehta and Teddy Stern on falling in love with Mumbai, and making Getar Hero
Nothing is impossible Paul Rowley on moving to New York, the Pulse massacre, and Gays Against Guns
‘The only thing that makes a story universal is emotions’ Warsaw’s Industry panel discuss reaching audiences abroad
The only thing worth saying Chuko and Arie Esiri on adapting Mrs Dalloway and making Clarissa
European Film Academy shortlist announced 68 features vie for nomination
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