During the Sengoku period, an army relentlessly lays siege to a castle, but they will need the head of the opposing lord to declare victory.

Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice gam...

Having put down his sword and given up the will to fight, the masterless samurai Iemon lives in soli...

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...

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...

A lone gambler tries to keep a yakuza family from taking over a festival in Kitakyushu. After away f...

A jidaigeki film on Banzuiin Chōbei produced in 1940 and directed by Yasuki Chiba.

Comedy directed by Torajiro Saito about swordsmen in the era of feudal Japan.

The Shinsengumi is a special unit of ronin commissioned by the Tokugawa shogunate to counter anti-sh...

An epidemic is spreading through the towns of Edo – it spreads via people, and if you get the fever,...

The famed leader Oda Nobunaga had two right-hand men who contributed to unifying the nation. One was...

On the day his mother dies, young gambler Jirocho swears in front of her grave that he'll never gamb...

Saotome Mondonosuke is Hatamoto (a high-class warrior who is allowed to see the Shogun in person) wh...

A remake of High Noon (1952) as a Japanese jidai-geki sword-fighting movie.

Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and an ag...

The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. The husband ...

When his mother's untimely death quickly follows his father's, a doctor begins to believe a killer m...

A young lord solves the mystery of multiple murders involving a young couple and a woman.

A story about a tomboy, Otoshi, who is good at singing, dancing and fencing.

A ronin desperately seeks a way out of financial straits; he allies with the Tosa clan under the rut...