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.

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

From all over Japan, the greatest warriors: Yagyu Jubei, Miyamoto Musashi, Araki Mataemon, and more ...

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

Late Taishō period. The Shibatora family, led by Naojirō, held power over the Tomigawara area in Jōs...

One samurai is ordered to kill another by their master in punishment.

When the boss of the Nakano Family decides to retire and makes a loyal follower the new boss instead...

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

Osamu rescues a girl who was being chased by two punks and is soon mixed up with the Yakuza

The third part of the series of films based on the Japanese epic novel Nanso Satomi Hakkenden by Kyo...

When Boss Juzo's Shinmachi Yakuza family struck fear into the hearts of his adversaries, Boss Shohei...

Japan's greatest jidaigeki star, Mifune Toshiro is Shogun's Advisor Okubo Hikozaemon who must be coa...

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

Marc Schrader, a rookie cop caught red-handed with drugs in a police raid of an illegal rave, joins ...

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

In 1908, Director/Producer Shozo Makino (father of Japanese cinema) directed and produced the first...

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...

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

Katsu, who belongs to the Murai group of the Sakagami Union, was frustrated by the distance from the...

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