A samurai is struggling to make ends meet at the end of the Edo period. He has students and, among other things, teaches them about the evils of the government. A member of the yakuza thugs has fallen in love with the samurai's daughter and conspires to report the father to the authorities in order to snatch the girl. The samurai's daughter has a boyfriend who hides the father and daughter from the thug.

Shinjiro, who runs a humble detective agency using a coffee shop in a certain town as his office, ge...

Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided ...

A Professional sniper, Ryo has executed so many missions with his partner, Narushima. But Ryo is cau...

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

The final, third part of an entertaining historical drama depicting the eventful story of the reveng...

Set in war-torn 15th century Kyoto, on the eve of the Onin War, the movie centers on a band of outla...

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

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

In the late 1890s, coal is a precious new natural resource. During an era of rapid economic growth, ...

A good-natured, but a useless man who loves horse racing and spends all of his family's precious mon...

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

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

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

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

The 21-year-old feudal on Sendai, Tsunamune Date, was prohibited to go out in the daytime for his mi...

Set in 1988 in Hiroshima, Japan, prior to the enactment of the anti-organized crime law. A rumor exi...

Two rogue vagrants make their living as "manure men", turning the waste from the tenement toilets in...

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

Two contract killers cross paths in the middle of the same job and realize they are childhood friend...

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