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.
Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.
Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice gam...
Chronichles the story of the Forty-seven Ronin.
A wave of terror is threatening to unseat Shogun Yoshimune. Police stations are erupting into flames...
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...
Floating Vessel (源氏物語 浮舟 , Ukifune) is a 1957 color Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. Dr...
A touching true story which portrays a doctor who selflessly dedicated his personal fortune to sprea...
In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a ...
Nagasaki at the end of the Edo period had the taste of a criminal paradise, where, despite the exoti...
A young boy named Chomatsu (Misora Hibari) lives with an old man Denbei near the grounds of Asakusa ...
Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who pred...
Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed w...
Kondo Isami, the “Devil” commander of the Shinsengumi was one of Japan’s greatest national heroes an...
The era when Samurai and Ninja existed in Japan. Rikka Isurugi was born and raised in a Ninja clan s...
Hokkaido, Japan: An old woman -- formerly a man -- lives by a lake in the northern reaches of Japan,...
Abashiri Prison is located in the coldest place in Japan. Two men, handcuffed together have escaped ...
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...
Kanichiro Yoshimura is a Samurai and Family man who can no longer support his wife and children on t...