Maeda Tsunanori, the lord of Kaga Domain, had two young princes - Katsumaru, the son of his legitimate wife, who died, and Yasunosuke, the son of his concubine. However, Katsumaru suddenly lost his mind and appealed to the shogunate to hand over the reins of the family Yasunosuke, but the request was rejected. Vassal Osawa Kuranojo suspects that this is the work of Ishikawa Torajiro, a swordsman from the Katsumaru group, and begins an investigation.

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

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

The news that the fifth Shogun Tsunayoshi was seriously ill caused a fierce struggle for the post of...

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...

During the latter part of the 16th Century, Japan's Warring States era was coming to a close. After ...

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...

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

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

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

During the Sengoku period, an army relentlessly lays siege to a castle, but they will need the head ...

When master swordsman Mikogami Genshiro of the Ono fencing school returns to find that his ailing se...

Kotani Zenzaemon, a ronin who has a side job making brushes in a tenement house in the back alley, i...

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

One samurai is ordered to kill another by their master in punishment.

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

Naosuke, a servant of Okajima Yasoemon, devoted himself to his master. One day, his master Okajima ...

Raised suckling poison arrows among the sparring Iga ninja factions, Mumon is a carefree 16th-centur...

During the Edo period, a gifted swordsman was exiled from his clan when he questioned the misconduct...