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.

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

The mysterious story behind the Skull Coins, which are said to reveal the location of treasure, and ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

Amagi Goe, based on Seicho Matsumoto's novel, has created numerous stars through its visualizations....

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

Follows the final days of the shogunate and Shinsengumi's Vice-Comander Hijikata Toshizo along with ...

The government in Edo era is suffering from a financial crisis. It hires "Kage" to provoke the colla...

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

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

Drama set in the historical Warring States Era of Japan. Tokaido name Imagawa Yoshimoto personally l...