The main character, Baian Fujieda, is a dark hero who has two faces: one as a skilled acupuncturist who saves lives, and the other as a criminal who buries evil that cannot be kept alive for the sake of others. Popular writer Shotaro Ikenami's historical novel series of the same title, on which the film "BAIAN The Assassin, M.D." is based, is a blockbuster bestseller with a total of over 6 million copies in print and has been made into a timeless entertainment film many times in Japan. Many famous actors have played the role of Baian, including Ken Watanabe. The year 2023 marks the 100th anniversary of Shotaro Ikenami's birth. In the anniversary year of 2023, a new "BAIAN The Assassin, M.D." is born.
Summoned by his dying father, Miyagi returns to his homeland of Okinawa, with Daniel, after a 40-yea...
Haru, an orphaned American who washes ashore in Japan and is mistaken for the great White Ninja of l...
A humble page fathers a child by the daughter of a clan official and is banished. Years later, the c...
1953 jidaigeki directed by Nobuo Nakagawa of Jigoku and Ghost of Yotsuya fame.
Even though Gennosuke and Oboro are from rival ninja villages, they are secretly in love. At an annu...
Ryotatsu, the wayward Priest blinded by Shinkai, the Wicked Priest, has his own story in this ultra-...
Genjiro was a samurai in the past, but he became a Yakuza, a dandy with a tattoo of red peonies, he ...
Satoshi Murayama, the shogi (Japanese chess) master known as the arch-rival of Yoshiharu Habu, the s...
The film is set in Kyoto at the end of the Tokugawa period, when there is a fierce clash between the...
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos ...
Okoma, a witty young woman working as a conductor in an old, rickety bus in Kōfu, Yamanashi (rural J...
The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...
Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided ...
A member of an elite paramilitary counter-terrorism unit becomes traumatized after witnessing the su...
Genki Ogasawara enrolls in an all boys high school. He then sets out to become popular with girls an...
A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing ...
Orphaned Kiku was raised at a Buddhist temple and learned theatrical arts and martial arts as a chil...
A group of ruthless gangsters, an unknown woman and an escaped convict have met, in The Forest of Re...
A passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an obsess...
When Kanako, a model daughter and a brilliant student, disappears, her mother asks her ex-husband, a...