In 16th century Japan, a young man has to choose between becoming a master steel maker like his father and grandfather before him, or becoming a samurai so that he can help protect his village from attacks by the various clans which want the high-quality steel made there.

A warrior-in-training and his bumbling friends go in pursuit of a stolen sword.

Izo, a Ronin, and Raiden, an orc, work to bring a young elf girl and the wand she carries to the lan...

The news that the fifth Shogun Tsunayoshi was seriously ill caused a fierce struggle for the post of...

The 40th and final "Tengu Kurama" feature starring Kanjuro Arashi.

Momotaro carries this sword into battle against injustice in shogunate Japan. Aided by ninja he must...

A story about a tomboy, Otoshi, who is good at singing, dancing and fencing.

Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four fol...

Ginga is a simple—yet energetic—country girl, living with her father far from the capital city of th...

A blind man seeks revenge against the psychopath who took away his sight and slaughtered his wife an...

A remake of High Noon (1952) as a Japanese jidai-geki sword-fighting movie.

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

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

Set in 19th Century Japan a young samurai who finds himself in love with a farm girl leaves his home...

Following the death of the second Tokugawa shogun, it is revealed that he was poisoned by retainers ...

With a mixture of drama, warlords, battles, love, tragedy all set with great music, this made for te...

Japan's greatest jidaigeki star, Mifune Toshiro is Shogun's Advisor Okubo Hikozaemon who must be coa...

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

The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, wh...

Young Lord Genjiro, who abandoned his castle to live as a commoner in Edo, returns home to restore p...