The third part of the series of films based on the Japanese epic novel Nanso Satomi Hakkenden by Kyokutei Bakin.

In 1908, Director/Producer Shozo Makino (father of Japanese cinema) directed and produced the first...

Tatsuya Nakadai, the world’s greatest living actor, returns to the screen in a brilliant adaptation ...

Ichibei, a thief known as "Yami no Kiba," and his daughter Oasa are caught by members of a street pe...

A historical scroll depicting the story of the tragic fate of the young samurai Minamoto Yoshitsune,...

Fifth movie in the Hissatsu (Sure Death!) Series. At the behest of a corrupt bureaucrat, a mysterio...

The fate of Tokugawa’s world hangs in the balance as Yagyu Jubei is sent on a mission to discover wh...

Late 18th century, Tohoku. An outcast girl, Rin lives in a village suffering from famine. She draws ...

The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, wh...

An exciting historical drama that dynamically depicts the life of Minamoto no Yoshitsune from the pe...

Nakazo is forced by his foster mother, Shun, to practice dance intensively. He is bullied in the Kab...

At the end of the Heian period, Musashibo Benkei, a warrior monk who hated the Heike clan, was humil...

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

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...

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

In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers...

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

Kanichiro Yoshimura is a Samurai and Family man who can no longer support his wife and children on t...