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.

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

As Part I opens, Jubei (Denjiro Okochi), the best of sea skippers, is unable to overcome the stormy ...

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

A village samurai with money, power and great masculinity goes to the flourishing city of Edo to hav...

In the late 1890s, coal is a precious new natural resource. During an era of rapid economic growth, ...

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

Takahashi Hideki stars as Muyonosuke, the one-eyed ronin who makes his living as a bounty hunter who...

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

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

After spending eight years in prison for murder, Hiroshi leaves his yakuza family to start a new lif...

In this film, Hibari plays a dual role as brother and sister. The story involves a journey to Hanaga...

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

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

A young executive has a really bad night after an encounter with a crazed bisexual wannabe yakuza an...

A Japanese Yakuza gangster's deadly existence in his homeland gets him exiled to Los Angeles, where ...

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

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

Unlike traditional gangster movies, it is a gangster swashbuckler that mixes romance and humanity wi...

Set in 1988 in Hiroshima, Japan, prior to the enactment of the anti-organized crime law. A rumor exi...

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