Widely remembered as the film that inspired George Lucas's Star Wars, The Hidden Fortress is one of Akira Kurosawa's most popular works, a thrillingly choreographed and cleverly written tale of chivalry and greed in medieval Japan, featuring Toshiro Mifune as a weary general in charge of protecting a princess (Misa Uehara).

Beautiful Ichi wanders blindly from village to village, searching for the sightless swordsman who long ago taught her to kill. Her technique is exquisite and explosive, her defenses as impenetrable as the darkness in which she moves. Many along her solitary path are touched - some by the sound of her delicate music, others by the edge of her lethal blade.

Beautiful Ichi wanders blindly from village to village, searching for the sightless swordsman who long ago taught her to kill. Her technique is exquisite and explosive, her defenses as impenetrable as the darkness in which she moves. Many along her solitary path are touched - some by the sound of her delicate music, others by the edge of her lethal blade.

Okada Izo, a historical figure, was a samurai warrior from a low-class family of mid-west Japan. His talent as a swordsman was discovered by a powerful samurai warlord, who recruited Izo as a soldier. Under his guidance, Izo murdered so many people that he earned the terrifying nickname "Izo the Slaughter." He was crucified for his carnage and became the incarnation of a deep-seeded grudge when his soul could not enter Heaven or Hell.

In his late color masterpiece Kagemusha (The Shadow Warrior), director Akira Kurosawa returned to the samurai film and to a primary theme of his celebrated career-the play between illusion and reality.

When a warlord dies, a peasant thief is called upon to impersonate him, and then finds himself haunted by his spirit as well as his own ambitions.

A young girl may hold the key to saving the world - or destroying it. A corporation wants her secret - no matter what it may be. Her only companion is an android - who is accused of killing her father. The first full-length adventure of young Daisy Ogami and her android protector Itto is now available in one volume! Click for more!

This volume collects issues #5-8 of the series, plus "The Red File," the recovered documents that reveal the scope of Cygnat Owari Corporation's plot to capture the young girl Daisy Ogami, and to kill her android protector Itto.

A virus incubating in young Daisy Ogami's blood may hold the key to saving the world... or destroying it. The Cygnat Owari corporation wants her secret - no matter what it may be, and no matter what the cost in money or lives. Daisy's only protector is Itto - an android bodyguard falsely accused of killing her father.

He was Itto Ogami, a father who gave his infant son a terrible choice between a beautiful red ball and a sword. To choose the ball meant to join his mother in the Void, to choose the sword meant to join his father, now a Ronin, a samurai without a master, in a terrible journey must end in revenge and death...

The Evil Yagyu Retsudo sets a band of deadly female Ninja on Ogami's trail. Meanwhile, Ogami must kill a traitor who seeks to sell a Clan's secrets to the Shogun - a traitor guarded by three men known as "The Gods of Death!"

After undergoing torture to demonstrate his honor and buy the freedom of a girl about to be forced into a life of prostitution, Ogami is hired by his very-impressed torturers to kill a corrupt governor...