In the 16th Year of Keityo (1611), the lord of Ogura Castle in Kyushu admitted Sasaki Kojiro's because of his great sword techniques. However, a group within the feudal clan which supported to use guns considered Kojiro an obstacle in their goals and has the well-known ronin, Miyamoto Musashi, fight him. Now because of political gain and greed, two honorable men are to fight to the death on Ganryu Island.

Murakawa, an aging Tokyo yakuza tiring of gangster life, is sent by his boss to Okinawa along with a...

Vicky recalls her romances with her exes Hao Hao and Jack in the neon-lit clubs of Taipei.

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

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

Joe Enders is a gung-ho Marine assigned to protect a "windtalker" - one of several Navajo Indians wh...

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

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

Two rogue vagrants make their living as "manure men", turning the waste from the tenement toilets in...

An epic drama about Nichiren's life. Nichiren was a Buddhist monk who lived for 60 years during the ...

Chiba appears seven days before a person dies an unexpected death. His job is to observe the person ...

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

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

A room in a fancy downtown apartment. The evening orgy kicks off with eight men and women meeting fo...

It's summer vacation, but two high schoolers have been instructed to clean the (empty) swimming pool...

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

Ryūichi and his small gang of Triad vie for control of the Japanese underworld in a crime-ridden Shi...

Shun Miyata's new life in Tokyo takes a dark turn when he and coworker Yuka discover their boss Yuri...

The erotic novelist Taeko is writing a morbid story of a family destroyed by incest, murder and abus...

In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos ...

An adventure film with Benshi performers. Sometimes considered the 'first Japanese feature film', it...