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...

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...

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

Takahashi Hideki stars as Muyonosuke, the one-eyed ronin who makes his living as a bounty hunter who...

The Color Print of Edo is a 1939 black and white Japanese silent film with benshi accompaniment dire...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The story of Ryoma Sakamoto, considered to be the architect behind the downfall of the Tokugawa shog...

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

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

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

Set in war-torn 15th century Kyoto, on the eve of the Onin War, the movie centers on a band of outla...

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

In the 9th year of the Tempo era, after a long sea voyage, Moritaya Seizo returned to Hirado, who ea...