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.

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...

Master thief Kinosuke arrives in Edo to pull off one final heist for a tea-server who resembles his ...

A tale of friendship, betrayal, and forbidden love—set against the backdrop of Edo’s criminal underw...

Young Lord Genjiro, who abandoned his castle to live as a commoner in Edo, returns home to restore p...

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

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

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

A samurai's path leads him to a young waitress whose hometown was destroyed by a dragon. He doesn't ...

Fewer samurai films are being made, and the Uzumasa studio has fallen on hard times. One day, vetera...

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

It is a historical drama that follows Katsu Kaishu's efforts to surrender Edo Castle bloodlessly in ...

During the Edo period, a gifted swordsman was exiled from his clan when he questioned the misconduct...

During the reign of Shogun Hidetada, both Hirate Musashi and Okamoto Musashi strive to become the fi...

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

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

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

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