A local yakuza boss of a silk farming town shows kindness to the wandering gambler Oryu by letting her stay at his residence. When a rival yakuza gang, who wants to take over the town's businesses, murders him, Oryu is obliged to protect his children and business.

Follows the final days of the shogunate and Shinsengumi's Vice-Comander Hijikata Toshizo along with ...

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

In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers...

Afro Samurai avenged his father and found a life of peace. But the legendary master is forced back i...

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

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

The government in Edo era is suffering from a financial crisis. It hires "Kage" to provoke the colla...

Seven years after the death of his wife, widower Shigeharu seeks advice on how to find a new wife fr...

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

Detective Hanshichi (Kataoka Chiezo) solves 3 mysterious murder cases. Great story and an impressive...

The story of Ryoma Sakamoto, considered to be the architect behind the downfall of the Tokugawa shog...

Sōra is a high school student who is basically invisible at school. He is friends with Chūya, who is...

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

When 54 high school girls throw themselves in front of a subway train it appears to be only the begi...

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

Izo is an assassin in the service of a Tosa lord and Imperial supporter. After killing dozens of the...

A detective breaks all rules of ethical conduct while investigating a colleague’s involvement in dru...

Minami mistakenly kills a gangster associate of his named Brother. Almost as soon as the murder take...

A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s ...

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