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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

The third movie following the exploits of bounty hunter Shikoro Ichibei. The theft of almost a half ...

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

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

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