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.

At Sakurada Gate in 1860, the shogun’s chief minister and his retinue of bodyguards are ambushed and...

From all over Japan, the greatest warriors: Yagyu Jubei, Miyamoto Musashi, Araki Mataemon, and more ...

The tragic, yet exciting story of the friendship between Nakayama Yasubei, a member of the 47 Ronin,...

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

Japan, 1785. Jūzaburō, a famous thief who refuses to kill innocent people, is betrayed, ambushed, an...

The third part of the series of films based on the Japanese epic novel Nanso Satomi Hakkenden by Kyo...

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

Raised suckling poison arrows among the sparring Iga ninja factions, Mumon is a carefree 16th-centur...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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