Against the backdrop of the Edo treasury devaluing currency and driving many into poverty, Hanzo Itami enforces the law without regard to status. He shows inadequate respect to the treasurer, who wants him dead.

Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice gam...

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, whic...

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

In the late 16th century, after the death of Nobunaga Oda, Hideyoshi Toyotomi takes power. The age o...

This historical film depicts the life of a man who was at the mercy of the waves during transition f...

A cowardly boy fencer becomes invisible and matchless through a magic potion.

Bored Hatamoto film #16.

Late 18th century, Tohoku. An outcast girl, Rin lives in a village suffering from famine. She draws ...

As Japan’s Tokugawa shogunate nears the end of its rule, Edo North Magistrate Toyama no Kinsan is ca...

In the late 19th century, rakugo student Taihei gives up hope of making the grade, and his despair l...

Kansuke Yamamoto is a samurai who dreams of a country united, peaceful from sea to sea. He enters th...

A yakuza boss hires Goemon Ishikawa, a modern day samurai, to protect him aboard his cruise ship cas...

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...

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...

Pursued by formidable Chinese assassins, young Kotaro and his dog run into No Name, a mysterious str...

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...