O-Shin is a young brothel worker who, one night, helps a young samurai escape from his pursuers. Against the warnings of her fellow workers, particularly Kikuno and the brothel's owner, O-Shin falls in love with the samurai.

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

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

Kakizaki Yuji’s period film is not like the jidaigeki films we are used to. While it deals with them...

One samurai is ordered to kill another by their master in punishment.

Kotani Zenzaemon, a ronin who has a side job making brushes in a tenement house in the back alley, i...

Takahagi Sutegoro is highly skilled at casing locations for thieves so that he can sell detailed flo...

Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed w...

During the Edo period, a gifted swordsman was exiled from his clan when he questioned the misconduct...

The fate of Tokugawa’s world hangs in the balance as Yagyu Jubei is sent on a mission to discover wh...

The life of Katsushika Oi, daughter of Hokusai and a trailblazing female artist in Japan.

Takizawa Bakin, a popular Edo period author, begins to recount a story he is planning in front of hi...

Kakunoshin Yanagida was a samurai, forced to leave the Han due to a false accusation. He then lived ...

Before Tokugawa Yoshimune, known as the "Ravage Shogun", was the lord of the Kishu domain, before he...

When Mio was young, she lost her parents in a great flood and also became separated from her best fr...

A history drama portraying the confrontation between the indigenous Ainu people living on Japan’s no...

The film depicts carnivalesque atmosphere summed up by the cry "Ei ja nai ka" ("Why not?") in Japan ...

Official Shogunate executioner Ogami Itto has been framed for disloyalty to the Shogunate by the Yag...

With most of his family already dead at Ogami Itto's hands, Retsudo launches one final plot to destr...

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

A group of travelers is stranded in a small country inn when the river floods during heavy rains. As...