Writer Jippensha Ikku hears Tsutaya Juzaburo, a wholesaler of picture books, mutter on his deathbed, "Where has Sharaku gone?" He begins to figure out the true identity of Sharaku, who disappeared after about 150 portraits of actors he created came out.

Master thief Kinosuke arrives in Edo to pull off one final heist for a tea-server who resembles his ...

A tale of friendship, betrayal, and forbidden love—set against the backdrop of Edo’s criminal underw...

In the turbulent last days of the Edo period, Kawai Tsugunosuke, a Japanese samurai serving the Maki...

Sen no Rikyu (Ebizo Ichikawa) is the son of a fish shop owner. Sen no Rikyu then studies tea and eve...

The Color Print of Edo is a 1939 black and white Japanese silent film with benshi accompaniment dire...

The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, wh...

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...

Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice gam...

The fate of Tokugawa’s world hangs in the balance as Yagyu Jubei is sent on a mission to discover wh...

During the Edo period, a gifted swordsman was exiled from his clan when he questioned the misconduct...

Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan w...

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival ...

Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifull...

Japan, 1785. Jūzaburō, a famous thief who refuses to kill innocent people, is betrayed, ambushed, an...

Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersona...

Naosuke, a servant of Okajima Yasoemon, devoted himself to his master. One day, his master Okajima ...

The government in Edo era is suffering from a financial crisis. It hires "Kage" to provoke the colla...

Kohei Akiyama, a popular master swordsman, and his son Daijiro live in the town of Edo in good faith...

One evening, when the monk Saito Musashibo Benkei was luring for his sword number 1000 at Gojo bridg...