Wandering swordsman Kanbei, parading through town with a sign that reads "Seeking fights, selling my life cheap." One day, he receives a request from the star of the daughter's kabuki, Nakamura Tsurukichi. However, unable to bear seeing a face reminiscent of his first love, he disappears as soon as the task is completed. But later, Tsurukichi returns to ask Kanbei for help once again...

It is a historical drama that follows Katsu Kaishu's efforts to surrender Edo Castle bloodlessly in ...

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

Zatoichi is sworn to protect the life of a young girl and without any real allies finds himself in t...

Ichi is a blind entertainer that travels the countryside with her traditional Japanese guitar and wa...

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

When the wife of a 17th century Kyoto scroll-maker is falsely accused of having an affair with his b...

Set in 19th Century Japan a young samurai who finds himself in love with a farm girl leaves his home...

Two rogue vagrants make their living as "manure men", turning the waste from the tenement toilets in...

In Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving not...

In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a ...

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

Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who pred...

Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed w...

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

Utaemon Ichikawa plays the role of Hikoshiro Navate, who has a strong sense of justice and opposes p...

A hotshot investigator solves a series of gruesome murders in this exciting and dark classic.

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