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.

In the 15th year of the Genroku era (1688), the world praised the 47 ronin who avenged the death of ...

Yasube Nakayama left the clan and lives in Edo. One day, Yasubei visits his uncle Rokuroemon Kanno t...

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

This historical film depicts the life of a man who was at the mercy of the waves during transition f...

In the late 16th century, after the death of Nobunaga Oda, Hideyoshi Toyotomi takes power. The age o...

Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice gam...

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...

In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a ...

In the third entry into this mega-hit series, Isshin Tasuke, a spirited fishmonger in Edo who looks ...

Sen no Rikyu (Ebizo Ichikawa) is the son of a fish shop owner. Sen no Rikyu then studies tea and eve...

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...

Seppuku Day 17 Ako ronins, including Kuranosuke Oishi, who were entrusted to the Hosokawa family, an...

Ichibei, a thief known as "Yami no Kiba," and his daughter Oasa are caught by members of a street pe...

During the reign of Hidetada, the second shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty, the advisor Okubo Hikozaemo...

From birth Hideyoshi was a restless, defiant spirit--a child of the poorest of the poor. Cast out of...

Utaemon Ichikawa plays the role of Hikoshiro Navate, who has a strong sense of justice and opposes p...

A hotshot investigator solves a series of gruesome murders in this exciting and dark classic.

Having put down his sword and given up the will to fight, the masterless samurai Iemon lives in soli...

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