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.

Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice gam...

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

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

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

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

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

A period mystery in which an unconventional priest exposes the truth behind the bizarre death of a m...

An epidemic is spreading through the towns of Edo – it spreads via people, and if you get the fever,...

The famed leader Oda Nobunaga had two right-hand men who contributed to unifying the nation. One was...

On the day his mother dies, young gambler Jirocho swears in front of her grave that he'll never gamb...

Saotome Mondonosuke is Hatamoto (a high-class warrior who is allowed to see the Shogun in person) wh...

Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and an ag...

The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. The husband ...

When his mother's untimely death quickly follows his father's, a doctor begins to believe a killer m...

A young lord solves the mystery of multiple murders involving a young couple and a woman.

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

A ronin desperately seeks a way out of financial straits; he allies with the Tosa clan under the rut...


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

The film tells about a young detective Zenigata Heiji who successfully solves a disgusting and unusu...