After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Kyoto. Otsu waits for him, yet he has come not for her but to challenge the leader of the region's finest school of fencing. To prove his valor and skill, he walks deliberately into ambushes set up by the school's followers.

Even though Gennosuke and Oboro are from rival ninja villages, they are secretly in love. At an annu...

Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifull...

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

Reiji's final mission is to prevent the smuggling of 600 billion yen of drugs. For his mission, he g...

Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided ...

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

In the turbulent last days of the Edo period, Kawai Tsugunosuke, a Japanese samurai serving the Maki...

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival ...

When an artist dies, the official cause of death is judged to be a stroke, but his daughter suspects...

A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s ...

Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century....

A burning Godzilla, on the verge of meltdown, emerges to lay siege to Hong Kong. At the same time ho...

A master swordsman is ordered to go undercover on a mission to find and destroy a cannon factory bei...

Taking place thirty years before the events of Ringu, Ringu 0 provides the shocking background story...

As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a re...

The second Bounty Hunter film, when master killer Shikoro Ichibei takes up the cause of a group of f...

Seven years after the death of his wife, widower Shigeharu seeks advice on how to find a new wife fr...

In this film, Hibari plays a dual role as brother and sister. The story involves a journey to Hanaga...

A warrior-in-training and his bumbling friends go in pursuit of a stolen sword.