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...

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

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

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

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

Japan, 1137. The Taira family, a samurai clan, becomes involved in the disputes between Emperor Toba...

In the late 19th century, rakugo student Taihei gives up hope of making the grade, and his despair l...

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

The tragic, yet exciting story of the friendship between Nakayama Yasubei, a member of the 47 Ronin,...

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

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

A fugitive lord and his six retainers disguise themselves as monks to bluff their way through a host...

Best friends Gentaro and Sanpei become fateful enemies when Sanpei steals a secret document revealin...

The show follows the early years of Japanese warlord hero Oda Nobunaga in the 16th century. As a you...

From all over Japan, the greatest warriors: Yagyu Jubei, Miyamoto Musashi, Araki Mataemon, and more ...

Master swordsman and loya 'Hatamoto' (direct vassal to the Shogun), Saotome Mondonosuke, is sent to ...

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

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

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

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