During the ultra-violent era of the downfall of the Tokugawa Shogunate one man rose above the rest with his ideas of how to overthrow the corrupt government and end the bloodshed between the Choshu and Satsuma clans which would ultimately lead to the alliance of these 2 clans and restoration of the emperor to full power. Based on the play that made Sawada Shojiro famous, this is the story of Tsukigata Hanpeita, a forward looking samurai from Choshu, who along with Katsura Kogoro and Sakamoto Ryoma of Tosa worked to bring their dream of a new era in Japan.

It is a historical drama that follows Katsu Kaishu's efforts to surrender Edo Castle bloodlessly in ...

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

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

The first part of an entertaining historical drama depicting the eventful story of the revenge of an...

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

The Color Print of Edo is a 1939 black and white Japanese silent film with benshi accompaniment dire...

In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a ...

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

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

Kanichiro Yoshimura is a Samurai and Family man who can no longer support his wife and children on t...

Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemp...

Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersona...

During the reign of the eighth shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate, the Yunagaya Domain in the Tohoku r...

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

The adventures of a blind, gambling masseur and master swordsman. Zatoichi targets a yakuza-controll...

Returning to the village where a year before he had killed Hirate, a much-admired opponent, Zatoichi...