The life, adventures and exploits of warlord Date Masamune the One-eyed Dragon: his early youth as an aggressive warrior, the battles he won until subduing almost all his enemies, the lonely comprehension of knowing that he actually can not take over the whole country because he was born too late.

Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice gam...

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

Young William Shakespeare is forced to stage his latest comedy, 'Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daugh...

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

Set in the Mayan civilization, when a man's idyllic presence is brutally disrupted by a violent inva...

Based on a real-life story, this drama focuses on a small group of Allied soldiers in Burma who are ...

Yuri Orlov is a globetrotting arms dealer and, through some of the deadliest war zones, he struggles...

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

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...

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

When U.S. Rangers and an elite Delta Force team attempt to kidnap two underlings of a Somali warlord...

A yakuza boss hires Goemon Ishikawa, a modern day samurai, to protect him aboard his cruise ship cas...

A few decades after the destruction of the Inca Empire, a Spanish expedition led by the infamous Agu...

During the early 16th century, idealistic German monk Martin Luther, disgusted by the materialism in...

Raised suckling poison arrows among the sparring Iga ninja factions, Mumon is a carefree 16th-centur...

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

The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven wit...

For three and a half centuries, from the same day that Diego Velázquez (1599-1660) applied his last ...

Village of Artigat, southern France, summer 1542, during the reign of Francis I. Martin Guerre and B...