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.

Having put down his sword and given up the will to fight, the masterless samurai Iemon lives in soli...

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...

Takahagi Sutegoro is highly skilled at casing locations for thieves so that he can sell detailed flo...

The news that the fifth Shogun Tsunayoshi was seriously ill caused a fierce struggle for the post of...

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

Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersona...

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

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

A group of travelers is stranded in a small country inn when the river floods during heavy rains. As...

The third part of the series of films based on the Japanese epic novel Nanso Satomi Hakkenden by Kyo...

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

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

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

In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers...

A man is brutally murdered and his famed shamisen (a three-stringed musical instrument) called the "...

Young lord investigates the mysterious death that takes place in the underworld.

Set in 19th Century Japan a young samurai who finds himself in love with a farm girl leaves his home...

A young lord solves the mystery of multiple murders involving a young couple and a woman.

Two rogue vagrants make their living as "manure men", turning the waste from the tenement toilets in...

At Sakurada Gate in 1860, the shogun’s chief minister and his retinue of bodyguards are ambushed and...