Nakazo is forced by his foster mother, Shun, to practice dance intensively. He is bullied in the Kabuki world, and worries about his future as an actor.
Utaemon Ichikawa plays the role of Hikoshiro Navate, who has a strong sense of justice and opposes p...
A hotshot investigator solves a series of gruesome murders in this exciting and dark classic.
Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century....
During the Edo period, a gifted swordsman was exiled from his clan when he questioned the misconduct...
A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival ...
Kanichiro Yoshimura is a Samurai and Family man who can no longer support his wife and children on t...
Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemp...
In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers...
A group of travelers is stranded in a small country inn when the river floods during heavy rains. As...
One evening, when the monk Saito Musashibo Benkei was luring for his sword number 1000 at Gojo bridg...
Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersona...
Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan w...
Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifull...
The fate of Tokugawa’s world hangs in the balance as Yagyu Jubei is sent on a mission to discover wh...
A historical scroll depicting the story of the tragic fate of the young samurai Minamoto Yoshitsune,...
The eighth shogun, Tokugawa Yoshimune, fights against evil rampant in Edo while blending in with the...
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...
Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.
Late 18th century, Tohoku. An outcast girl, Rin lives in a village suffering from famine. She draws ...