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.

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

A 48-year-old unsuccessful actor confronts his past when he undergoes hypnosis after a mysterious te...

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

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

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...

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

A man witnesses a fatal traffic accident on his way home from work, and the victim is clearly killed...

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

Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors ar...

An elderly Nagasaki hibakusha spends a summer caring for her four grandchildren, whose curiosity abo...

The film adaptation of the novel "Three Little Rats" by Tatsuro Jinde. In this fascinating story, th...

The second film about the adventures of Chosichiro Matsudaira. This time he fights against conspirat...

A young man is falsely accused of molesting a high-school girl on a train. He is arrested and charge...

The story is about a convict released from prison for an old murder who is thinking about returning ...

Kaiji (played by Tatsuya Fujiwara) is about to have his life changed. The thrill is beyond anything ...

Fukami is a high school janitor whose father was a gangster. He works at the school as a janitor ins...

In the 9th year of the Tempo era, after a long sea voyage, Moritaya Seizo returned to Hirado, who ea...

Gombei is Nameless, a wanderer who is skilled with a sword and has a great sense of humor, who tries...