The eighth shogun, Tokugawa Yoshimune, fights against evil rampant in Edo while blending in with the common people as Tokuda Shinnosuke, the third son of a poor samurai retainer, commonly known as "Shin-san". The story depicts Yoshimune, who is shaken by the issue of succession, the drama within Edo Castle, and a difficult case involving a conspiracy that occurs in the castle town, with the addition of new characters and a sense of the era.
Japan blossomed into its Renaissance at approximately the same time as Europe. Unlike the West, it f...
Bored Hatamoto film #16.
In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a ...
Set at the end of the Sengoku period to early Edo period, "Sanada Ten Braves" follows 10 members of ...
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The man is chased by losing the beauty and preciousness of love and the foundation of life without o...
Yagyu Jubei, the finest swordsman in the land, is called upon to bare his blade to help Iemitsu keep...
He was married to his lover's butterfly and started a new residence. But good things do not last. In...
An epidemic is spreading through the towns of Edo – it spreads via people, and if you get the fever,...
[Period covered: 1582-1594]. As the film opens, the warlod Nobunaga Oda rides to Iga Ayanokuni shrin...
Kabuki adaptation: A princess, a figure from the literary past who anticipates a modern woman, tempt...
Nakazo is forced by his foster mother, Shun, to practice dance intensively. He is bullied in the Kab...
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...
Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors ar...
In a poor district of Edo lives a young samurai named Soza. He has been sent by his clan to avenge t...
In the Edo period, a nameless ronin accepts an assignment to go to a mountain pass and wait. Near th...
Wishing to find peace, Zatoichi travels to his old village but only finds trouble when he ends up in...
After arriving in the town of Shimonita, Ichi finds that a price has been put on his head by a local...