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.
In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a ...
Japan, 1701. A group of samurai become rônin after their lord is forced to commit seppuku for assaul...
When the brutal Boshin War breaks out in Japan, a group of inmates on death row unite to defend a fo...
A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island, where they struggle each day to irrigat...
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...
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for ...
Five swordsmen are murdered and hung from a tree and the chase is on to find the killers. Two magist...
A mysterious coin found at a murder scene stirs the curiosity of young actress detective Oshichi and...
A month after Genji Takiya graduates, a new battle for supremacy at Suzuran All-Boys High School beg...
Beautiful Noriko Miki works at a cosmetic company. One day, Noriko is murdered. People begin to susp...
Kei Kikuno attends a vocational school as a student. For her part-time job, she works as a contract ...
After the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate, there was a series of battles fought while the former supp...
The struggles of a group of outcasts living in "Yentown", in an alternate-future Japan.
The film is set in Edo period. As an orphan child Mio starts working at a restaurant in Osaka where ...
Mika works as a nurse by day; by night she entertains covetous men at a girls' bar. Shinji is blind ...
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...
Sen no Rikyu (Ebizo Ichikawa) is the son of a fish shop owner. Sen no Rikyu then studies tea and eve...
Action and adventure abound in this story of friendship between two rival firefighters, Kichigoro an...