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.
From birth Hideyoshi was a restless, defiant spirit--a child of the poorest of the poor. Cast out of...
An exciting historical drama that dynamically depicts the life of Minamoto no Yoshitsune from the pe...
At the end of the Heian period, Musashibo Benkei, a warrior monk who hated the Heike clan, was humil...
A giant stone statue comes to life to protect the residents of a small town against the depradations...
Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four fol...
Two young swordsmen, Akado Suzunosuke and Tatsumaki Rainoshin, arrive at the city of Edo in their qu...
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...
Floating Vessel (源氏物語 浮舟 , Ukifune) is a 1957 color Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. Dr...
Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice gam...
Having put down his sword and given up the will to fight, the masterless samurai Iemon lives in soli...
Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century....
Getting an opportunity to meet with another half-Caucasian swordsman, Kyoshiro finds himself involve...
During the events of the Chushingura incident, Mumyo, a disgruntled Shogunate secret agent, retires ...
In Tensho 9, as Oda Nobunaga nears the unification of Japan, he assigns trusted generals to conquer ...
Police detective Heiji is assigned to catch the masked Maboroshi gang of robbers who have terrorized...
Chushingura has been made into a movie several times before, but this time it will be presented in a...
The legendary tale of the forty-seven samurai and their mission to avenge the death of their master.
This historical film depicts the life of a man who was at the mercy of the waves during transition f...
When an artist dies, the official cause of death is judged to be a stroke, but his daughter suspects...
The third movie following the exploits of bounty hunter Shikoro Ichibei. The theft of almost a half ...