In Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving nothing because fighting on the losing side, & then beginning his long period of wandering & training, with the goal always in mind of his duel with Kojiro. Part II builds toward that great duel on Ganryu Island, with considerable focus on Musashi's planning & forethought as to how to gain an advantage.
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...
A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island, where they struggle each day to irrigat...
Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed w...
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for ...
At the turn of the century, all of the Earth's monsters have been rounded up and kept safely on Mons...
In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to k...
A wave of terror is threatening to unseat Shogun Yoshimune. Police stations are erupting into flames...
Detective Onihei better known as "Heizo the Demon" heads a group of skilled officers, however, one o...
A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival ...
Vicky recalls her romances with her exes Hao Hao and Jack in the neon-lit clubs of Taipei.
Nagasaki at the end of the Edo period had the taste of a criminal paradise, where, despite the exoti...
Yagyu Jubei, the finest swordsman in the land, is called upon to bare his blade to help Iemitsu keep...
Narumi is on bad terms with her husband, Shinji, when, one day, Shinji goes missing. He comes back a...
Set in an academy for daughters of the rich and powerful, this murder mystery involves six girls wit...
Chiba appears seven days before a person dies an unexpected death. His job is to observe the person ...
The erotic novelist Taeko is writing a morbid story of a family destroyed by incest, murder and abus...
Ryūichi and his small gang of Triad vie for control of the Japanese underworld in a crime-ridden Shi...
Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan w...
Sen no Rikyu (Ebizo Ichikawa) is the son of a fish shop owner. Sen no Rikyu then studies tea and eve...
A young journalist interviews an elderly woman about being forced into prostitution in Borneo at a b...