Kozukenosuke Kira is slashed with a sword by Ako Daimyo, who holds deep contempt towards Kozukenosuke Kira. Ako Daimyo then kills himself. Both of their families now fall into a big crisis. At this time, a vassal for the Kira family comes up with an extraordinary solution. The plan calls for Takaaki Kira, who is the younger brother of Kozukenosuke Kira, to pretend he is his older brother and deceive the shogunate. Takaaki Kira looks virtually identical to his older brother.
After the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate, there was a series of battles fought while the former supp...
When the brutal Boshin War breaks out in Japan, a group of inmates on death row unite to defend a fo...
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...
Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice gam...
TV movie based on the novel "The Tale of Genji" by Murasaki Shikibu, which tells about the life of P...
Ninomiya Kinjirou is a biopic follows the life of the eponymous character, an 18th century peasant b...
The film is set in Edo period. As an orphan child Mio starts working at a restaurant in Osaka where ...
Action and adventure abound in this story of friendship between two rival firefighters, Kichigoro an...
Based on a short story written by Shuhei Fujisawa (who also wrote Twilight Samurai, The Hidden Blade...
TAJOMARU is the famous 'bandit' of the forest from RASHOMON. Whoever kills Tajomaru inherits his nam...
Japan, 1137. The Taira family, a samurai clan, becomes involved in the disputes between Emperor Toba...
The man is chased by losing the beauty and preciousness of love and the foundation of life without o...
His skill and courage were the best in Japan! The life story of Jirocho, a man who protected people ...
After the Akizuku clan fall in defeat to rival clan Yamana, Princess Yuki and General Rokurota take ...
A group of travelers is stranded in a small country inn when the river floods during heavy rains. As...
Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century....
Sen no Rikyu (Ebizo Ichikawa) is the son of a fish shop owner. Sen no Rikyu then studies tea and eve...
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...
The adventures of a blind, gambling masseur and master swordsman. Zatoichi targets a yakuza-controll...