Takashi Miike (Ichi the Killer, Visitor Q, Full Metal Yakuza), the most sought after Japanese action director today delivers a haunting tale set in the Tokugawa Era. Framed for a crime he did not commit, Eiji is subjected to the harsh realities of the Ishikawa Island prison camp. Sabu, Eiji's longtime friend, must discover who is responsible for causing Eiji's incarceration, before prison life consumes him completely.

From the moment they meet, Joon-young (Kwon Sang-woo, Stairway to Heaven) and the blind Hae-in (Kim Hee-Sun, Goodbye My Love, Tomato) share an instant connection. Young and naive, they believe that nothing can change their love. Life, however, pulls them in opposite directions, Joon-young is sent to Seoul while Hae-in moves to America. Misleadingly informed that Joon-young is dead, Hae-in struggles to begin a new life alone.

Niiro Tsuruchiyo is a masterless samurai - a ronin - desperate for a last chance to gain a position with one of the great houses. To curry favor, he joins an assassination plot against a Shogunate Elder. Fate, which has dealt him many cruel blows throughout his life, has one more surprising revelation for him as he waits, sword in hand, outside the gates of Edo Castle. It is March 3rd, 1860, and the snow is gently falling.

Yamamoto Kansuke is a fearsome warrior who has risen to the position of Clan Chamberlain through trickery and deceit, but he learns the meaning of honor when he and his Lord Takeda fall in love with the same woman.

Feudal lord Kanzen Inukai is entrusted with the protection of an ancient sword from the shogun, which is stolen by the samurai Kazamatsuri. Kanzen's young son, Heishiro, insists on retrieving the sword himself to protect the family name and honor. Heishiro's two friends, Shintaro and Tadasuke, accompany him, ostensibly to assist him, but in reality to compete for the glory that will go to the one who defeats Kazamatsuri.

Toshiro Mifune stars as Isaburo, an aging swordsman living a quiet life until his clan lord orders that his son marry the lord's mistress, who has recently displeased the ruler. Reluctantly, father and son take in the woman, and, to the family's surprise, the young couple fall in love. But the lord soon reverses his decision and demands the mistress's return.

37,000 peasants perished in the Shimabara Revolt; among them, the leader of the uprising, Shiro Amakusa. More than a decade later, Amakusa rises from the dead! He resurrects an army of living dead master swordsmen by way of an occult art called "Makai Tensho" (demonic transmigration). But, standing in their way is the legendary Samurai Jubei Yagyu!

Years of warfare end in a Japan unified under the Tokugawa shogunate, and samurai spy Sasuke Sarutobi, tired of conflict, longs for peace. When a high-ranking spy named Koriyama defects from the shogun to a rival clan, however, the world of swordsmen is thrown into turmoil. After Sarutobi is unwittingly drawn into the conflict, he tracks Koriyama, while a mysterious, white-hooded figure seems to hunt them both.

The frightening "Monkey Maker" killer has turned Seattle into a city of fear. Six victims had their eyes plucked out. The next six had their ears cut off and the last four had their tongues removed. Det. Renart (Michael Pare) and partner Dorothy Smith (Jennifer Rubin) investigate the latest victim - and the guy who found her, a wealthy stock trader named Tom Turner (Casper Van Dien). The terror turns personal when the killer begins to threaten Renart's pregnant wife.

After getting rejected from military school because of his father's affiliation with the Communist party, Tae-Soo enters a dark underworld filled with violent gangsters and corrupt politicians. Woo-Suk sees his family suffer under political oppression and becomes a prosecutor to fight for social justice. Painfully torn between the two men is Hye-Rin, the ambitious successor to her father's successful casino business.

In this sly companion piece to Yojimbo, the jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an idealistic group of young warriors weed out their clan's evil influences, and in the process turns their image of a "proper" samurai on its ear.

This set contains both Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo and Sanjuro.