In this first episode, we are introduced to Takezo, what Musashi used to be before he became the man of legend. His beginning are not exactly auspicious. He sides with the Toyotomi at Sekigahara, and as a result finds himself on the losing side of the historic battle. He and his friend Matahachi manage to escape the slaughter although the latter is wounded in his leg. They stumble across the young Akemi who makes her living with her mother Oko by robbing corpses of their armor and anything else they can sell. Oko takes it into her head to seduce Matahachi, which she does first by skillfully sucking the gangrene from his blood, and then just by sucking.

Ichi is a blind entertainer that travels the countryside with her traditional Japanese guitar and wa...

"Tsubaki Sanjuro" is a remake of Sanjuro (1962) by Akira Kurosawa. Sanjuro returns with sharper, fas...

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

Ogami Itto battles a group of female ninja in the employ of the Yagyu clan and must eliminate a trai...

In the last days of the Tokugawa shogunate, there was a cute warrior, Souji Okita, who belonged to t...

Isozoemon (Go Kato) was a ronin (masterless samurai) and broke, who lived in a Choya (cheap apartmen...

Saotome Mondonosuke is Hatamoto (a high-class warrior who is allowed to see the Shogun in person) wh...

Kabuki adaptation: A princess, a figure from the literary past who anticipates a modern woman, tempt...

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

Even though Gennosuke and Oboro are from rival ninja villages, they are secretly in love. At an annu...

During the Edo period, a gifted swordsman was exiled from his clan when he questioned the misconduct...

It is a historical drama that follows Katsu Kaishu's efforts to surrender Edo Castle bloodlessly in ...

In the turbulent last days of the Edo period, Kawai Tsugunosuke, a Japanese samurai serving the Maki...

The eighth shogun, Tokugawa Yoshimune, fights against evil rampant in Edo while blending in with the...

Young Lord Genjiro, who abandoned his castle to live as a commoner in Edo, returns home to restore p...

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

The ever versatile Kazuki Kitamura stars as masterless samurai Kyutaro Madarame, a feared swordsman ...

The first part of an entertaining historical drama depicting the eventful story of the revenge of an...