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.

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

Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice gam...

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...

During the Edo period, a gifted swordsman was exiled from his clan when he questioned the misconduct...

Two penniless orphans, Black and White, struggle to survive on the mean streets of Treasure Town. Wh...

The secret warriors of feudal Japan were the ninja. Sent on impossible missions, the ninja were trai...

Kanichiro Yoshimura is a Samurai and Family man who can no longer support his wife and children on t...

Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemp...

The story of Ryoma Sakamoto, considered to be the architect behind the downfall of the Tokugawa shog...

Two rogue vagrants make their living as "manure men", turning the waste from the tenement toilets in...

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

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

The Tendokai is attacked by the Daitoa-dan. Believing there's a traitor within the organization, Wa...

Hubert is a French policeman with very sharp methods. After being forced to take 2 months off by his...

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

Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They...

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

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

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