When an artist dies, the official cause of death is judged to be a stroke, but his daughter suspects foul play. She recruits the services of an assassin, who by chance encounters an old friend...

Nakazo is forced by his foster mother, Shun, to practice dance intensively. He is bullied in the Kab...

Late 18th century, Tohoku. An outcast girl, Rin lives in a village suffering from famine. She draws ...

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

Sen no Rikyu (Ebizo Ichikawa) is the son of a fish shop owner. Sen no Rikyu then studies tea and eve...

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

Tatsuya Nakadai, the world’s greatest living actor, returns to the screen in a brilliant adaptation ...

In the third entry into this mega-hit series, Isshin Tasuke, a spirited fishmonger in Edo who looks ...

A historical scroll depicting the story of the tragic fate of the young samurai Minamoto Yoshitsune,...

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

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

Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who pred...

Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed w...

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

Utaemon Ichikawa plays the role of Hikoshiro Navate, who has a strong sense of justice and opposes p...

A hotshot investigator solves a series of gruesome murders in this exciting and dark classic.

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...

Fifth movie in the Hissatsu (Sure Death!) Series. At the behest of a corrupt bureaucrat, a mysterio...

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

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