Nemuri Kyoshiro discovers a conspiracy centering around a band of disgruntled samurai wanting to avenge the death of their sensei, a political reformer that pushed for better provisions for the lower classes until he was assassinated by Shogunate agents. Their plot, to set fire to the oil refineries of two rich merchants and unleash a raging inferno that will hopefully burn down the Edo Castle.
The classic tale retold. This is one of Japan’s most popular stories in a brand new version starrin...
A warrior-in-training and his bumbling friends go in pursuit of a stolen sword.
Set in the Edo period, the film deals with two brothers falling in love with the same girl. Sadly, ...
Even though Gennosuke and Oboro are from rival ninja villages, they are secretly in love. At an annu...
Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century....
A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival ...
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...
Oda Nobunaga and Nōhime were originally married to mend a hostile relationship between neighbouring ...