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.

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

The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, wh...

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

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

A daughter is constantly overshadowed by her famous father, but she is determined to make her own ma...

In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a ...

As a result of illness and unemployment, Yamaoka Tatewaki, a "Hatamoto" (or direct vassal of the Sho...

Sen no Rikyu (Ebizo Ichikawa) is the son of a fish shop owner. Sen no Rikyu then studies tea and eve...

Japan blossomed into its Renaissance at approximately the same time as Europe. Unlike the West, it f...

Fifth movie in the Hissatsu (Sure Death!) Series. At the behest of a corrupt bureaucrat, a mysterio...

Near the end of the shogunate in Japan, Katsura Shogoro and his fellow samurai from the southwestern...
Among the many famous 16th-century samurai who made the leap from myth and ukiyo-e to early cinema s...

The fate of Tokugawa’s world hangs in the balance as Yagyu Jubei is sent on a mission to discover wh...

A samurai's path leads him to a young waitress whose hometown was destroyed by a dragon. He doesn't ...
The legendary tale of the forty-seven samurai and their mission to avenge the death of their master.

Saotome, a sword master and guard of the Shogunate, pursues the mystery of a deadly aerial weapon th...

The Color Print of Edo is a 1939 black and white Japanese silent film with benshi accompaniment dire...

The mysterious story behind the Skull Coins, which are said to reveal the location of treasure, and ...