Based on the historical figure of Nobutora, the father of the famous Warring States period general Takeda Shingen. Takeda Shingen has proven himself in battle but there’s an even more capable person in his family, his father Nobutora (lit. Samurai Tiger). The son exiles the father and so the old patriarch goes to Suruga to serve the Ashikaga shogun in Kyoto. Decades later, Nobutora, now 80 years old, learns that Shingen is in trouble and the old man returns home to keep the Takeda family alive as a new leader seeks to usurp leadership of the Takeda’s and starts a fight with the great warlord, Oda Nobunaga.

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

Journalists Ichiro Sakai and Junko cover the wreckage of a typhoon when an enormous egg is found and...

Based on a real-life story, this drama focuses on a small group of Allied soldiers in Burma who are ...

Matauemon Araki (Kotaro Satomi) is a sword teacher in Yamatokoriyama. He heard from his brother-in-l...

In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a ...

The third part of the series of films based on the Japanese epic novel Nanso Satomi Hakkenden by Kyo...

Thirteen years after abandoning his wife and two sons by stepping out for a pack of cigarettes and n...

Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie s...

Kakizaki Yuji’s period film is not like the jidaigeki films we are used to. While it deals with them...

There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by...

A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island, where they struggle each day to irrigat...

Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who pred...

Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed w...

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for ...

Brash, loudmouthed and opportunistic, Kikujiro is the unlikely companion for Masao who is determined...

Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They...

This is the story of Kaori Kawabuchi, a samurai sword performer, singer and motion capture actor. An...

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

In this film, Hibari plays a dual role as brother and sister. The story involves a journey to Hanaga...

The Way of Drama unfolds in the world of kabuki in Osaka, but also addresses the politics of popular...