In 1701, an insult led to a sword slash between the heads of the Ako clan and the Kira clan in Shogun's court. The head of the Ako clan was ordered to commit seppuku, and his loyal retainers plotted revenge against the Kira clan. This led to the legendary events known as the "47 ronin incident". However, unknown to most, the head of the Kira clan, Kozukenosuke Kira, is already dead from his wounds. Impersonating him is his slacker monk brother Takaaki, who has to prevent his brother's death being found out to protect his clan – and accidentally befriends Ooishi, the leader of the Ako men who wouldn't really want to go through with the revenge. Will Takaaki survive with his head?

Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice gam...

The Color Print of Edo is a 1939 black and white Japanese silent film with benshi accompaniment dire...

The fate of Tokugawa’s world hangs in the balance as Yagyu Jubei is sent on a mission to discover wh...

Kotani Zenzaemon, a ronin who has a side job making brushes in a tenement house in the back alley, i...

During the Edo period, a gifted swordsman was exiled from his clan when he questioned the misconduct...

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

Naosuke, a servant of Okajima Yasoemon, devoted himself to his master. One day, his master Okajima ...

The ever versatile Kazuki Kitamura stars as masterless samurai Kyutaro Madarame, a feared swordsman ...

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival ...

The 21-year-old feudal on Sendai, Tsunamune Date, was prohibited to go out in the daytime for his mi...

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

Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century....

Saotome Mondonosuke is Hatamoto (a high-class warrior who is allowed to see the Shogun in person) wh...

A period comedy set at the end of the Sengoku Period about Sasuke Saruhi, a middle-aged ninja.

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

In 1908, Director/Producer Shozo Makino (father of Japanese cinema) directed and produced the first...

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

During the reign of the eighth shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate, the Yunagaya Domain in the Tohoku r...

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

A village samurai with money, power and great masculinity goes to the flourishing city of Edo to hav...