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.

In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mot...

A jidaigeki film on Banzuiin Chōbei produced in 1940 and directed by Yasuki Chiba.

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

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

The ever versatile Kazuki Kitamura stars as masterless samurai Kyutaro Madarame, a feared swordsman ...

Sawa Yamagishi worked as a nursing-care helper. The family for an old man asked Sawa to sleep with h...

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

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

In 1908, Director/Producer Shozo Makino (father of Japanese cinema) directed and produced the first...

Two contract killers cross paths in the middle of the same job and realize they are childhood friend...

Pursued by formidable Chinese assassins, young Kotaro and his dog run into No Name, a mysterious str...

A village samurai with money, power and great masculinity goes to the flourishing city of Edo to hav...

When young protege Akira Kageyama is bitten by his dying vampire boss, Genyo Kamiura, he must get us...

As Part I opens, Jubei (Denjiro Okochi), the best of sea skippers, is unable to overcome the stormy ...

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

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

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

Ichibei is assigned by Shogun Tokugawa to prevent the sale of a Dutch ships-load of rifles to the ho...

Left for dead by her rich and powerful stepmother, Snow White is taken in by a team of assassins who...

When the bizarre mass suicide of 54 high school girls throwing themselves in front of a subway train...