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.

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

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...

The second Bounty Hunter film, when master killer Shikoro Ichibei takes up the cause of a group of f...

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

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

The news that the fifth Shogun Tsunayoshi was seriously ill caused a fierce struggle for the post of...

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

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

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

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

A jidaigeki film on Banzuiin Chōbei produced in 1940 and directed by Yasuki Chiba.

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

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

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

During the latter part of the 16th Century, Japan's Warring States era was coming to a close. After ...

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

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

The third part of the series of films based on the Japanese epic novel Nanso Satomi Hakkenden by Kyo...

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...