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.
From birth Hideyoshi was a restless, defiant spirit--a child of the poorest of the poor. Cast out of...
Late in the 1500s, an aging tea master teaches the way of tea to a headstrong Shogun. Through force ...
When master swordsman Mikogami Genshiro of the Ono fencing school returns to find that his ailing se...
The film depicts carnivalesque atmosphere summed up by the cry "Ei ja nai ka" ("Why not?") in Japan ...
One samurai is ordered to kill another by their master in punishment.
Japan, 1159. Moritō, a brave samurai, performs a heroic act by rescuing the lovely Kesa during a vio...
Kotani Zenzaemon, a ronin who has a side job making brushes in a tenement house in the back alley, i...
Warlords Kagetora and Takeda each wish to prevent the other from gaining hegemony in feudal Japan. T...
With a price on his head, Ichi seeks tranquillity in a favorite village. Since his last visit, it ha...
With a mixture of drama, warlords, battles, love, tragedy all set with great music, this made for te...
Ichi travels to the village of Itakura to pay his respects at the grave of Kichizo, a man he killed ...
Follows the final days of the shogunate and Shinsengumi's Vice-Comander Hijikata Toshizo along with ...
An exciting historical drama that dynamically depicts the life of Minamoto no Yoshitsune from the pe...
This historical film depicts the life of a man who was at the mercy of the waves during transition f...
A group of travelers is stranded in a small country inn when the river floods during heavy rains. As...
Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemp...
Fearless Edo-period police inspector Hanzo Itami, nicknamed The Razor, has developed his own unique ...
Against the backdrop of the Edo treasury devaluing currency and driving many into poverty, Hanzo Ita...