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.
Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifull...
With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare's King Lear as a singular histori...
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...
Takizawa Bakin, a popular Edo period author, begins to recount a story he is planning in front of hi...
1953 jidaigeki directed by Nobuo Nakagawa of Jigoku and Ghost of Yotsuya fame.
A humble page fathers a child by the daughter of a clan official and is banished. Years later, the c...
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...
Ryotatsu, the wayward Priest blinded by Shinkai, the Wicked Priest, has his own story in this ultra-...
Genjiro was a samurai in the past, but he became a Yakuza, a dandy with a tattoo of red peonies, he ...
Oda Nobunaga (1534–1582) was a major daimyo during the Warring State period of Japanese history. He ...
Furuta Oribe is ordered to become tea master under Toyotomi Hideyoshi after his teacher Sen no Rikyū...
Set in war-torn feudal Japan, the Iga ninja make a final stand as the overwhelming armies of Warlord...
Among the great ‘Warlords’ in Japanese history, Oda Nobunaga holds a unique place. In effect, his mi...
Set in 900AD and tells the story of a famous female writer of the time, Murasaki Shikibu. Her story ...
Orphaned Kiku was raised at a Buddhist temple and learned theatrical arts and martial arts as a chil...
In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a ...
The stormy tale of the Shinsengumi is told from its birth by master filmmaker Sasaki Yasushi, with a...
Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, "Rashomon" is perhaps the fines...
Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, whic...