A thrilling and entertaining piece in which Jirokichi, portrayed by Morio Kazama, tackles a major event involving an attempt to assassinate the shogun. This production features historical figures such as Toyama Kagemoto, Oshio Heihachiro, Utagawa Hiroshige, and Watanabe Kanzan in their youth, depicting their exploits before they became famous. It becomes a lively portrayal of youthful vigor, with scenes of Jirokichi leaping using trampolines, creating a light and lively action.

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

Kotani Zenzaemon, a ronin who has a side job making brushes in a tenement house in the back alley, i...

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

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

In 1908, Director/Producer Shozo Makino (father of Japanese cinema) directed and produced the first...

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...

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

The story of Ryoma Sakamoto, considered to be the architect behind the downfall of the Tokugawa shog...

When master swordsman Mikogami Genshiro of the Ono fencing school returns to find that his ailing se...

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

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

During the Sengoku period, an army relentlessly lays siege to a castle, but they will need the head ...

One samurai is ordered to kill another by their master in punishment.

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

The secret warriors of feudal Japan were the ninja. Sent on impossible missions, the ninja were trai...

Kohei Akiyama, a popular master swordsman, and his son Daijiro live in the town of Edo in good faith...

Kohei Akiyama, a popular master swordsman, and his son Daijiro live in the town of Edo in good faith...

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

Japan, 1785. Jūzaburō, a famous thief who refuses to kill innocent people, is betrayed, ambushed, an...