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.
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Japan, 1701. A group of samurai become rônin after their lord is forced to commit seppuku for assaul...
In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a ...
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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...
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The life, adventures and exploits of warlord Date Masamune the One-eyed Dragon: his early youth as a...
Nagasaki at the end of the Edo period had the taste of a criminal paradise, where, despite the exoti...
In the middle of the Edo period, when the finances of the shogunate were in a desperate situation, t...
Floating Vessel (源氏物語 浮舟 , Ukifune) is a 1957 color Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. Dr...
Nakazo is forced by his foster mother, Shun, to practice dance intensively. He is bullied in the Kab...
With a price on his head, Ichi seeks tranquillity in a favorite village. Since his last visit, it ha...
One evening, when the monk Saito Musashibo Benkei was luring for his sword number 1000 at Gojo bridg...
Ichi travels to the village of Itakura to pay his respects at the grave of Kichizo, a man he killed ...
In Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving not...
Late in the 1500s, an aging tea master teaches the way of tea to a headstrong Shogun. Through force ...
In 1701, Lord Takuminokami Asano has a feud with Lord Kira and he tries to kill Kira in the corridor...
Japan, 1137. The Taira family, a samurai clan, becomes involved in the disputes between Emperor Toba...