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.

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...

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

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

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

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

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

During the reign of the eighth shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate, the Yunagaya Domain in the Tohoku r...

A lone gambler tries to keep a yakuza family from taking over a festival in Kitakyushu. After away f...

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

A warrior-in-training and his bumbling friends go in pursuit of a stolen sword.

Ichibei is assigned by Shogun Tokugawa to prevent the sale of a Dutch ships-load of rifles to the ho...

A nameless gunfighter arrives in a town ripped apart by rival gangs and, though courted by both to j...

Left for dead by her rich and powerful stepmother, Snow White is taken in by a team of assassins who...

Izo is an assassin in the service of a Tosa lord and Imperial supporter. After killing dozens of the...

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

Takahashi Hideki stars as Muyonosuke, the one-eyed ronin who makes his living as a bounty hunter who...

Haunted by bad luck, two friends learn to trust in the world again and take their destiny into their...

In the midst of the Siege of Osaka in the Sengoku period, a thrilling tale unfolds featuring a trio ...

The 21-year-old feudal on Sendai, Tsunamune Date, was prohibited to go out in the daytime for his mi...