A pair of black-robed thieves who robbed many wealthy merchants in Edo one after another. One of them is a young woman who is called "Aoi no Kozo" because she always takes off her skin to show the tattoo on her back. The target of the robbers was the Kogi, and in particular, the big stores that were under the control of Hotta Bizen. Itami Hanzo, a Doshin known as "Kamisori Hanzo" discovers when he tracks down the Aoi no Kozo! What is the truth?!

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

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

Official Shogunate executioner Ogami Itto has been framed for disloyalty to the Shogunate by the Yag...

Ogami Itto volunteers to be tortured by Yakuza in order to save a prostitute and is hired by their l...

Ogami Itto is challenged by a quintet of warriors, each armed with one fifth of Ogami's assassin fee...

With most of his family already dead at Ogami Itto's hands, Retsudo launches one final plot to destr...

Against the backdrop of the Edo treasury devaluing currency and driving many into poverty, Hanzo Ita...

Hanzo extracts a confession from a ghost using his assaulting methods, foils thieves, connects with ...

Wishing to find peace, Zatoichi travels to his old village but only finds trouble when he ends up in...

After arriving in the town of Shimonita, Ichi finds that a price has been put on his head by a local...

Zatoichi is sworn to protect the life of a young girl and without any real allies finds himself in t...

A jidaigeki film on Banzuiin Chōbei produced in 1940 and directed by Yasuki Chiba.

Takahashi Hideki stars as Muyonosuke, the one-eyed ronin who makes his living as a bounty hunter who...

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

Ichi is a blind entertainer that travels the countryside with her traditional Japanese guitar and wa...

Ryunosuke, a gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate rule, ha...

The story of Ryoma Sakamoto, considered to be the architect behind the downfall of the Tokugawa shog...

The news that the fifth Shogun Tsunayoshi was seriously ill caused a fierce struggle for the post of...

Momotaro carries this sword into battle against injustice in shogunate Japan. Aided by ninja he must...

Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors ar...