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.

The Way of Drama unfolds in the world of kabuki in Osaka, but also addresses the politics of popular...

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

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

A silly and serious midnight road TV movie produced by NHK.

The third part of the series of films based on the Japanese epic novel Nanso Satomi Hakkenden by Kyo...

A school romantic comedy about the cohabitation life of a popular high school girl in a class and a ...

Thirteen years after abandoning his wife and two sons by stepping out for a pack of cigarettes and n...

A man is brutally murdered and his famed shamisen (a three-stringed musical instrument) called the "...

Raised suckling poison arrows among the sparring Iga ninja factions, Mumon is a carefree 16th-centur...

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

Brash, loudmouthed and opportunistic, Kikujiro is the unlikely companion for Masao who is determined...

At the turn of the century, all of the Earth's monsters have been rounded up and kept safely on Mons...

In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to k...

When master swordsman Mikogami Genshiro of the Ono fencing school returns to find that his ailing se...

Marc Schrader, a rookie cop caught red-handed with drugs in a police raid of an illegal rave, joins ...

Masa hires rental actress and aspiring dancer, Kanako, to pose as his fiancée to impress his estrang...

In July 1945, during the end of World War II, Japan is forced to accept the Potsdam Declaration. A c...

A young boy with a troubled home life becomes "chosen," and he stumbles into the middle of a great w...

Would-be writer Ryunosuke Chagawa is still living across the street from Norifumi Suzuki and his aut...

When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scra...