Genjiro was a samurai in the past, but he became a Yakuza, a dandy with a tattoo of red peonies, he helps his younger brother who is caught up in a conflict with Hatamoto.
A wave of terror is threatening to unseat Shogun Yoshimune. Police stations are erupting into flames...
Floating Vessel (源氏物語 浮舟 , Ukifune) is a 1957 color Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. Dr...
Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and an ag...
When his mother's untimely death quickly follows his father's, a doctor begins to believe a killer m...
The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. The husband ...
Set in 900AD and tells the story of a famous female writer of the time, Murasaki Shikibu. Her story ...
A single bullet cuts through Kyoto in the last days of the Tokugawa shogunate right before the resto...
The stormy tale of the Shinsengumi is told from its birth by master filmmaker Sasaki Yasushi, with a...
Oda Nobunaga (1534–1582) was a major daimyo during the Warring State period of Japanese history. He ...
Barefoot and her friends decide to make a samurai movie, gather a unique cast and staff for the prod...
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...
Kakunoshin Yanagida (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi) was a samurai, but he was forced out of the Han due to a fal...
With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare's King Lear as a singular histori...
Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifull...
A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival ...
The main character, Baian Fujieda, is a dark hero who has two faces: one as a skilled acupuncturist ...
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 ...
The adventures of a blind, gambling masseur and master swordsman. Zatoichi targets a yakuza-controll...