Kunisada Chuji is a common folk hero who looks out for poor people in the country who are at the mercy of corrupt officials. Intent on fulfilling a dying wish from one of his henchmen, Asataro, to find a decent home for his young nephew, Chuji descends from his hide-out in the mountain, and heads to the city in spite of numerous dangers that await him there.

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

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

Jiromaru (Kinnosuke Nakamura) investigates the dark "Ghost Ship" in search of his father. Meanwhile,...

Shinji and Masaru spend most of their school days harassing fellow classmates and playing pranks. Th...

Before he was a protector, Kenshin was a fearsome assassin known as Battosai. But when he meets gent...

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

In Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving not...

In the last days of the Tokugawa shogunate, there was a cute warrior, Souji Okita, who belonged to t...

A private eye becomes the bodyguard of a beautiful reporter being pursued by a Japanese mob.

In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occup...

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...

Before Tokugawa Yoshimune, known as the "Ravage Shogun", was the lord of the Kishu domain, before he...

A remake of High Noon (1952) as a Japanese jidai-geki sword-fighting movie.

The name of the legendary fighter 'Toshi Toshi', Mr. Yoshino Masatoshi (Ozawa Hitoshi) in the Shinju...

A young man decides one day to start killing yakuza. After he kills his first two he gets roped into...

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

Kakunoshin Yanagida was a samurai, forced to leave the Han due to a false accusation. He then lived ...

In 1970s-era Japan, three children, Kazuma Kiryu, Akira Nishikiyama, and his younger sister, Yuko Ni...