In Tensho 9, as Oda Nobunaga nears the unification of Japan, he assigns trusted generals to conquer remaining regions. Meanwhile, a peasant farmer named Sahei, resembling Nobunaga, is chosen by Hideyoshi and Sen no Rikyu to act as Nobunaga’s shadow. Furious at the idea of a double, Nobunaga confronts Sahei, who courageously performs the "Atsumori" dance, impressing Nobunaga enough to accept him as his Kagemusha. Sahei’s first test as the shadow warrior comes at a memorial service for the Oda family.

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

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, whic...

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

As a result of illness and unemployment, Yamaoka Tatewaki, a "Hatamoto" (or direct vassal of the Sho...

Well before “Shogun” as warring clans were fighting for power throughout Japan, a Portuguese vessel ...

When his mother's untimely death quickly follows his father's, a doctor begins to believe a killer m...

In Edo Japan, a kabuki actor seeks revenge against the three men who drove his parents to their deat...

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...

When master swordsman Mikogami Genshiro of the Ono fencing school returns to find that his ailing se...

Ogami Itto battles a group of female ninja in the employ of the Yagyu clan and must eliminate a trai...

During the latter part of the 16th Century, Japan's Warring States era was coming to a close. After ...

Ichi is a blind entertainer that travels the countryside with her traditional Japanese guitar and wa...

The year is 1805. Napoleon ruled Europe. Ienari is the 11th Tokugawa Shogun. An incident, which was ...

A naively honorable samurai comes to the bitter realization that his devotion to moral samurai princ...

The government in Edo era is suffering from a financial crisis. It hires "Kage" to provoke the colla...

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