The main character, Baian Fujieda, is a dark hero who has two faces: one as a skilled acupuncturist ...
Oda Nobunaga (1534–1582) was a major daimyo during the Warring State period of Japanese history. He ...
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...
Orphaned Kiku was raised at a Buddhist temple and learned theatrical arts and martial arts as a chil...
The stormy tale of the Shinsengumi is told from its birth by master filmmaker Sasaki Yasushi, with a...
In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a ...
Set in 900AD and tells the story of a famous female writer of the time, Murasaki Shikibu. Her story ...
Takizawa Bakin, a popular Edo period author, begins to recount a story he is planning in front of hi...
Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, "Rashomon" is perhaps the fines...
When the brutal Boshin War breaks out in Japan, a group of inmates on death row unite to defend a fo...
Fifth movie in the Hissatsu (Sure Death!) Series. At the behest of a corrupt bureaucrat, a mysterio...
The masked avenger Kurama Tengu is linked to a plot to bring down the Tokugawa shogunate, but is it ...
During the ultra-violent era of the downfall of the Tokugawa Shogunate one man rose above the rest w...
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...
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...
A samurai is struggling to make ends meet at the end of the Edo period. He has students and, among o...