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...

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

Master thief Kinosuke arrives in Edo to pull off one final heist for a tea-server who resembles his ...

A tale of friendship, betrayal, and forbidden love—set against the backdrop of Edo’s criminal underw...

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

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

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

During the Edo period, a gifted swordsman was exiled from his clan when he questioned the misconduct...

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

Takahagi Sutegoro is highly skilled at casing locations for thieves so that he can sell detailed flo...

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

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

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...

Drama set in the historical Warring States Era of Japan. Tokaido name Imagawa Yoshimoto personally l...

Japan, 1785. Jūzaburō, a famous thief who refuses to kill innocent people, is betrayed, ambushed, an...

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

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

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

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