Thieves broke into Yamashiroya, a drug wholesaler, and stole 780 ryo. In the storehouse, there was a sticker with a picture of an umbrella, the signature of Yahei Kasayama, a great thief who once ransacked the entire Kanto region. Heizo Hasegawa (Kichiemon Nakamura), the director of the reform of the thieves, learns that the theft was the work of Yahei's son Yataro (Somegoro Ichikawa [now Koshiro Matsumoto]) and his gang, thanks to the help of a spy named Isaji (Koichi Miura). He learns that Yataro is in the process of marrying Oito (Tomoka Kurokawa), the daughter of Shigezo of Narumi, a great thief from Owari. Heizo learns the true identity of the thread and the evil plans of the second generation Narumi Shigezo (Fuse Hiroshi), and he meets Nagashima no Kugoro (Matsudaira Ken), a former thief who is trying to arrange a marriage deal to return the favor to the previous generation Kasayama and the previous generation Narumi. ) while hiding his identity...

Tatsuya Nakadai, the world’s greatest living actor, returns to the screen in a brilliant adaptation ...

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

Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifull...

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival ...

One evening, when the monk Saito Musashibo Benkei was luring for his sword number 1000 at Gojo bridg...

Near the end of the nineteenth century, as the balance of power shifts from Shogunate towards the Em...

The 40th and final "Tengu Kurama" feature starring Kanjuro Arashi.

A pair of down-on-their-luck swordsmen arrive in a dusty, windblown town, where they become involved...

In the last days of the Tokugawa shogunate, there was a cute warrior, Souji Okita, who belonged to t...

In the midst of the Siege of Osaka in the Sengoku period, a thrilling tale unfolds featuring a trio ...

A remake of High Noon (1952) as a Japanese jidai-geki sword-fighting movie.

Before he was a protector, Kenshin was a fearsome assassin known as Battosai. But when he meets gent...

A rebellious ninja in 17th century Japan takes refuge with a fisherman and his family.

A group of travelers is stranded in a small country inn when the river floods during heavy rains. As...

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...

The second Bounty Hunter film, when master killer Shikoro Ichibei takes up the cause of a group of f...