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.

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...

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

Having put down his sword and given up the will to fight, the masterless samurai Iemon lives in soli...

A daughter is constantly overshadowed by her famous father, but she is determined to make her own ma...

Shinohara, a young bodybuilder, joins a para-military sect in northern Japan. His instructor, Takiz...

An assassin is shot by her ruthless employer, Bill, and other members of their assassination circle ...

Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie s...

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

Master thief Kinosuke arrives in Edo to pull off one final heist for a tea-server who resembles his ...

A tale of friendship, betrayal, and forbidden love—set against the backdrop of Edo’s criminal underw...

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

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

The advertising director of Pacific Pharmaceuticals, frustrated with the low ratings of their sponso...

Journalists Ichiro Sakai and Junko cover the wreckage of a typhoon when an enormous egg is found and...

Based on a real-life story, this drama focuses on a small group of Allied soldiers in Burma who are ...