A man is brutally murdered and his famed shamisen (a three-stringed musical instrument) called the "Yamabiko" stolen. Prince Kogenta swears to avenge his father-in-law's death and retrieve the family heirloom.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The 21-year-old feudal on Sendai, Tsunamune Date, was prohibited to go out in the daytime for his mi...

The 40th and final "Tengu Kurama" feature starring Kanjuro Arashi.

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

Isozoemon (Go Kato) was a ronin (masterless samurai) and broke, who lived in a Choya (cheap apartmen...

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

Toma (Go Kato) is a son of a doctor in Takane, Yoshitomo Monzen. He was ordered by the sick federal ...

Momotaro carries this sword into battle against injustice in shogunate Japan. Aided by ninja he must...

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

A thrilling and entertaining piece in which Jirokichi, portrayed by Morio Kazama, tackles a major ev...

In the third, and final chapter of this epic tale, handsome swordsman Genji helps a vulnerable princ...

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

The life of Katsushika Oi, daughter of Hokusai and a trailblazing female artist in Japan.

In the Sengoku period, a woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of ...