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...

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

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

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

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

The fate of Tokugawa’s world hangs in the balance as Yagyu Jubei is sent on a mission to discover wh...

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

A rebellious ninja in 17th century Japan takes refuge with a fisherman and his family.

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

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

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...

The secret warriors of feudal Japan were the ninja. Sent on impossible missions, the ninja were trai...

Momotaro carries this sword into battle against injustice in shogunate Japan. Aided by ninja he must...

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

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

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

A group of travelers is stranded in a small country inn when the river floods during heavy rains. As...

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

A story about a tomboy, Otoshi, who is good at singing, dancing and fencing.

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