The story of Yoshinaka during the tumultuous period of warring related to us in the Heike Monogatari. Close in setting to Kinugasa’s famous Gate of Hell (1953).

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

Kakizaki Yuji’s period film is not like the jidaigeki films we are used to. While it deals with them...

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

Kon Ichikawa's retelling of the classic true story of Samurai honor. When a young clan lord is force...

Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to become a ...

After years on the road establishing his reputation as Japan's greatest fencer, Takezo returns to Ky...

A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal...

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

During the Sengoku period, an army relentlessly lays siege to a castle, but they will need the head ...

Wishing to find peace, Zatoichi travels to his old village but only finds trouble when he ends up in...

After arriving in the town of Shimonita, Ichi finds that a price has been put on his head by a local...

Zatoichi is sworn to protect the life of a young girl and without any real allies finds himself in t...

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

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

Set in war-torn 15th century Kyoto, on the eve of the Onin War, the movie centers on a band of outla...

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

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...