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

The first part of an entertaining historical drama depicting the eventful story of the revenge of an...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The mysterious story behind the Skull Coins, which are said to reveal the location of treasure, and ...

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

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

Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemp...