Tomizo, a master storehouse-breaker who has been released from prison in Denmacho after serving five years plans to break into the Edo Castle gold storehouse to avenge the death of his father, who died a violent death at a gold mine on Sado Island. With the help of Hanji, a playboy who took care of him in prison, as his partner, Tomizo decides on the night of fireworks to be held in Edo Castle as the day to carry out his plan. Kanpei, a wise man, is suspicious of the plan.

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The famed leader Oda Nobunaga had two right-hand men who contributed to unifying the nation. One was...

A period mystery in which an unconventional priest exposes the truth behind the bizarre death of a m...

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When an artist dies, the official cause of death is judged to be a stroke, but his daughter suspects...

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

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Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemp...

Kanichiro Yoshimura is a Samurai and Family man who can no longer support his wife and children on t...

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

A lone gambler tries to keep a yakuza family from taking over a festival in Kitakyushu. After away f...

Japan's greatest jidaigeki star, Mifune Toshiro is Shogun's Advisor Okubo Hikozaemon who must be coa...

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Even though Gennosuke and Oboro are from rival ninja villages, they are secretly in love. At an annu...

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