The second film about the adventures of Chosichiro Matsudaira. This time he fights against conspirators whose goal is to replace the 4th Shogun Ietsuna during his visit to Nikko Shrine.

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

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

During the reign of the eighth shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate, the Yunagaya Domain in the Tohoku r...

Official Shogunate executioner Ogami Itto has been framed for disloyalty to the Shogunate by the Yag...

Ogami Itto volunteers to be tortured by Yakuza in order to save a prostitute and is hired by their l...

With most of his family already dead at Ogami Itto's hands, Retsudo launches one final plot to destr...

Against the backdrop of the Edo treasury devaluing currency and driving many into poverty, Hanzo Ita...

Hanzo extracts a confession from a ghost using his assaulting methods, foils thieves, connects with ...

Wishing to find peace, Zatoichi travels to his old village but only finds trouble when he ends up in...

After arriving in the town of Shimonita, Ichi finds that a price has been put on his head by a local...

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

A jidaigeki film on Banzuiin Chōbei produced in 1940 and directed by Yasuki Chiba.

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

Kakizaki Yuji’s period film is not like the jidaigeki films we are used to. While it deals with them...

Ichi is a blind entertainer that travels the countryside with her traditional Japanese guitar and wa...

Ryunosuke, a gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate rule, ha...

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

The news that the fifth Shogun Tsunayoshi was seriously ill caused a fierce struggle for the post of...

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

Matauemon Araki (Kotaro Satomi) is a sword teacher in Yamatokoriyama. He heard from his brother-in-l...