A low-level swordsman decides to live in the wild after being betrayed by his former comrades.

In war-torn medieval Japan, a military hero is sent to a small village to dispatch a malevolent spirit that has been ripping out the throats of itinerant samurai. and discovers that he must face his own personal demons as well.

An impoverished mother and her daughter-in-law eke out a lonely, desperate existence. In order to survive in feudal Japan, they are forced to murder lost samurai and sell their belongings for grain, then dump their corpses down a deep, dark hole.

An American boxer is thrust into a Japanese family feud involving the ownership of an ancient sword. A master samurai trains the American in the ways of Japanese martial arts and culture so that he can assist him in foiling his rich industrialist brother.

In the late feudal era of Japan, a young ninja is operating undercover in the court of an aging lord during a peaceful era of Japan that is on the brink of change. After the lord challenges his lazy samurais to a punishing marathon to toughen them up, the ninja finds his loyalties put to the test. Facing impossible odds, this unusual band of characters is running a race to win or die.

In medieval Japan, a woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of civil war. Afterwards, a series of samurai returning from the war through that area are found mysteriously dead with their throats torn out. The governor calls in a wild and fierce young hero, to quell what is evidently a ghost. He encounters the two beautiful women, in an eery, beautiful scene. After spiritual purification, he meets the demon in a thrilling...

Deep in the windswept marshes of war-torn medieval Japan, an impoverished older woman and her daughter-in-law murder lost samurai and sell their belongings for the most meager of sustenance. When a bedraggled neighbor returns from battle, lust, jealousy, and rage threaten to destroy the trio's tenuous existence before an ominous, ill-gotten demon mask seals their horrifying fate. Driven by primal emotions, dark eroticism, a frenzied score by Hikaru...

A clan lord orders an aging swordsman to have his son marry the lord's mistress, but reverses his decision after the young couple falls in love.

Set in a futuristic world that has just seen the end of a massive war, many villages are being terrorized by Nobuseri bandits. But the Nobuseri are no normal bandits. They were once Samurai who, during the war, integrated their living cells with machines to become dangerous weapons no appearing more machine than man. A group of villagers decide to hire samurai to protect their village. Contains all 26 episodes.

She's fierce, fearless and considered a worthy foe by gods and villains alike, but in Season Three, Xena finds herself powerless to prevent the suffering of her greatest friend and ally, Gabrielle. While Gabrielle faces the consequences of shedding innocent blood and taking pity on an evil deity, Xena must deal with trials of her own, including facing old nemeses Callisto and Ares, escaping the confines of physical and mental prisons, protecting her...