Residents in a town have a hard time due to the land tax and forced labor. 9 people, including Juzaburo Kokutaya (Sadao Abe), worry about the future of their town. They then set up a plan to save the town. The plan is to lend large amounts of money to han (historical term for the estate of a warrior) and distribute the interest annually to the residents, but if they're caught they will lose their lives.
Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifull...
During the Edo period, an incident occurred in a certain castle town where young samurai were weaken...
Feudal lord Takuminokami Asano has been led to kill himself due to a scheme by Kozukenosuke Kira. Ha...
Kozukenosuke Kira is slashed with a sword by Ako Daimyo, who holds deep contempt towards Kozukenosuk...
The ever versatile Kazuki Kitamura stars as masterless samurai Kyutaro Madarame, a feared swordsman ...
Set at the end of the Sengoku period to early Edo period, "Sanada Ten Braves" follows 10 members of ...
Masaatsu Naito successfully completes Sankin-kotai (required ritual to visit the shogun). On his way...
In an Edo-period retelling of "City Lights", Iyami, a poor beggar, befriends a flower-selling blind ...
In a poor district of Edo lives a young samurai named Soza. He has been sent by his clan to avenge t...
In the late 16th century, after the death of Nobunaga Oda, Hideyoshi Toyotomi takes power. The age o...
Lord Oda Nobunaga plans to control Japan where rival warlords battle by waging war against several c...
Kumazou, a "cleaner" for hire, encounters a woman attempting to commit suicide with her two young si...
A ghost interrupts the journey of two young noblemen who are disguised as merchants.
A pair of down-on-their-luck swordsmen arrive in a dusty, windblown town, where they become involved...
A costumed film featuring the famous hero of Japanese history, Isshin Tasuke, arranged in the form o...
Young Lord Genjiro, who abandoned his castle to live as a commoner in Edo, returns home to restore p...
A story about a tomboy, Otoshi, who is good at singing, dancing and fencing.
Momotaro carries this sword into battle against injustice in shogunate Japan. Aided by ninja he must...
In the last days of the Tokugawa shogunate, there was a cute warrior, Souji Okita, who belonged to t...
Story of the last three days in the life of Sakamoto Ryoma (1836-1867), the imperial loyalist who tr...