The government in Edo era is suffering from a financial crisis. It hires "Kage" to provoke the collapse of small hans (prefectures). "Kagekari" are people who were hired by Daimyos (mayors of local governments) to resist kage. The young mayor of Suwa Takashiwa, Tadamaru was assaulted by a kage on his way to Edo. Zyubei and Gennnosuke, the Kagekaris, try to carry injured Tadamaru to Edo.

Even though Gennosuke and Oboro are from rival ninja villages, they are secretly in love. At an annu...

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

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

The Color Print of Edo is a 1939 black and white Japanese silent film with benshi accompaniment dire...

In the turbulent last days of the Edo period, Kawai Tsugunosuke, a Japanese samurai serving the Maki...

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

When an artist dies, the official cause of death is judged to be a stroke, but his daughter suspects...

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

The second Bounty Hunter film, when master killer Shikoro Ichibei takes up the cause of a group of f...

In this film, Hibari plays a dual role as brother and sister. The story involves a journey to Hanaga...

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

Drama set in the historical Warring States Era of Japan. Tokaido name Imagawa Yoshimoto personally l...

Japan, 1785. Jūzaburō, a famous thief who refuses to kill innocent people, is betrayed, ambushed, an...

During the reign of the eighth shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate, the Yunagaya Domain in the Tohoku r...

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

Takahagi Sutegoro is highly skilled at casing locations for thieves so that he can sell detailed flo...

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

In a poor district of Edo lives a young samurai named Soza. He has been sent by his clan to avenge t...