Geisha Yaeko is approached by a samurai who has just returned to Edo while she is painting a picture of camellia flowers in a temple. The samurai, whom she meets again at a drinking party, is the heir to the castle's daimyo, Yuuki Shinichiro, and the two become romantically involved despite their different social standings. Although he tells her he cannot marry her immediately, Yaeko believes in Shinichiro and continues to wait for the day they can be together. However, Shinichiro's uncle, Kuwajima, tells her to end the relationship.

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

The Color Print of Edo is a 1939 black and white Japanese silent film with benshi accompaniment dire...

The fate of Tokugawa’s world hangs in the balance as Yagyu Jubei is sent on a mission to discover wh...

Kotani Zenzaemon, a ronin who has a side job making brushes in a tenement house in the back alley, i...

During the Edo period, a gifted swordsman was exiled from his clan when he questioned the misconduct...

A jidaigeki film on Banzuiin Chōbei produced in 1940 and directed by Yasuki Chiba.

Naosuke, a servant of Okajima Yasoemon, devoted himself to his master. One day, his master Okajima ...

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

The 21-year-old feudal on Sendai, Tsunamune Date, was prohibited to go out in the daytime for his mi...

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

Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century....

Saotome Mondonosuke is Hatamoto (a high-class warrior who is allowed to see the Shogun in person) wh...

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

In 1908, Director/Producer Shozo Makino (father of Japanese cinema) directed and produced the first...

When an artist dies, the official cause of death is judged to be a stroke, but his daughter suspects...

Takahashi Hideki stars as Muyonosuke, the one-eyed ronin who makes his living as a bounty hunter who...

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

Japan, 1785. Jūzaburō, a famous thief who refuses to kill innocent people, is betrayed, ambushed, an...

Isozoemon (Go Kato) was a ronin (masterless samurai) and broke, who lived in a Choya (cheap apartmen...

Toma (Go Kato) is a son of a doctor in Takane, Yoshitomo Monzen. He was ordered by the sick federal ...