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.

A jidaigeki film on Banzuiin Chōbei produced in 1940 and directed by Yasuki Chiba.

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

The ever versatile Kazuki Kitamura stars as masterless samurai Kyutaro Madarame, a feared swordsman ...

Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan w...

When an artist dies, the official cause of death is judged to be a stroke, but his daughter suspects...

In 1908, Director/Producer Shozo Makino (father of Japanese cinema) directed and produced the first...

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

Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century....

Takahashi Hideki stars as Muyonosuke, the one-eyed ronin who makes his living as a bounty hunter who...

In the midst of the Siege of Osaka in the Sengoku period, a thrilling tale unfolds featuring a trio ...

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...

In this film, Hibari plays a dual role as brother and sister. The story involves a journey to Hanaga...

Naosuke, a servant of Okajima Yasoemon, devoted himself to his master. One day, his master Okajima ...

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

During the latter part of the 16th Century, Japan's Warring States era was coming to a close. After ...

Matauemon Araki (Kotaro Satomi) is a sword teacher in Yamatokoriyama. He heard from his brother-in-l...

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

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

In Kyoto, a samurai named Boredom Otoko, Saotome Mondonosuke , appears and helps a woman being chase...