Inomatsu, a carpenter with a reputation as a skilled craftsman, has a wife named Oritsu. Oritsu is deeply in love with Inomatsu and believes that the purpose of her life is to devote herself to her husband day and night. However, Oritsu is Inomatsu's fourth wife. In fact, he is a robber and thief. As a carpenter, Inomatsu usually sneaked into merchants' houses and carried out robberies. For him, wives are just a tool to deceive the public...
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...
A touching true story which portrays a doctor who selflessly dedicated his personal fortune to sprea...
Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.
Floating Vessel (源氏物語 浮舟 , Ukifune) is a 1957 color Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. Dr...
Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersona...
Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemp...
Kitagawa Utamaro is a famous ukiyo-e artist known for his paintings of beautiful women. The courtesa...
In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers...
A historical chivalric drama with tears and laughter, telling the story of Jirocho Shimizu's family,...
A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival ...
Sen no Rikyu (Ebizo Ichikawa) is the son of a fish shop owner. Sen no Rikyu then studies tea and eve...
The Color Print of Edo is a 1939 black and white Japanese silent film with benshi accompaniment dire...
Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan w...
Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifull...
Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century....
In the third entry into this mega-hit series, Isshin Tasuke, a spirited fishmonger in Edo who looks ...
Kanichiro Yoshimura is a Samurai and Family man who can no longer support his wife and children on t...
In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a ...
His skill and courage were the best in Japan! The life story of Jirocho, a man who protected people ...
Fifth movie in the Hissatsu (Sure Death!) Series. At the behest of a corrupt bureaucrat, a mysterio...