
Based on the historical figure of Nobutora, the father of the famous Warring States period general T...

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

A young journalist interviews an elderly woman about being forced into prostitution in Borneo at a b...

In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos ...

An epic drama about Nichiren's life. Nichiren was a Buddhist monk who lived for 60 years during the ...

Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersona...

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...

An adventure film with Benshi performers. Sometimes considered the 'first Japanese feature film', it...

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...

By mid-1945, Hitler is dead and the war has ended in Europe. Halfway around the world, however, the ...

A bitter battle is fought between Australian and Japanese soldiers along the Kokoda trail in New Gui...

At the strong insistence of his father, Ushimatsu Segawa conceals his origins from a “buraku” area o...

A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing ...

There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by...

Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who pred...

Kakunoshin Yanagida was a samurai, forced to leave the Han due to a false accusation. He then lived ...

Before Tokugawa Yoshimune, known as the "Ravage Shogun", was the lord of the Kishu domain, before he...

Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors ar...