A history drama portraying the confrontation between the indigenous Ainu people living on Japan’s northernmost main island—then called “Ezo” and now known as “Hokkaido”—and the “sisam”, the Ainu word for ethnic Japanese.
A humble page fathers a child by the daughter of a clan official and is banished. Years later, the c...
1953 jidaigeki directed by Nobuo Nakagawa of Jigoku and Ghost of Yotsuya fame.
Genjiro was a samurai in the past, but he became a Yakuza, a dandy with a tattoo of red peonies, he ...
Kanto, 14, a descendant of Japan's indigenous Ainu people, decides to visit a hole in the forest — a...
Orphaned Kiku was raised at a Buddhist temple and learned theatrical arts and martial arts as a chil...
Luca lost her family in the Great East Japan Earthquake causing her not to be able to speak. However...
During the ultra-violent era of the downfall of the Tokugawa Shogunate one man rose above the rest w...
With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare's King Lear as a singular histori...
Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifull...
A samurai is struggling to make ends meet at the end of the Edo period. He has students and, among o...
Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century....
Abashiri Prison is located in the coldest place in Japan. Two men, handcuffed together have escaped ...
Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersona...
A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival ...
The masked avenger Kurama Tengu is linked to a plot to bring down the Tokugawa shogunate, but is it ...
A ronin named Azami Onijuro travels the Nikko Highway, he is being followed by the bounty hunter Dai...
Kanichiro Yoshimura is a Samurai and Family man who can no longer support his wife and children on t...
The adventures of a blind, gambling masseur and master swordsman. Zatoichi targets a yakuza-controll...
Returning to the village where a year before he had killed Hirate, a much-admired opponent, Zatoichi...
Fearless Edo-period police inspector Hanzo Itami, nicknamed The Razor, has developed his own unique ...