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.

Sen no Rikyu (Ebizo Ichikawa) is the son of a fish shop owner. Sen no Rikyu then studies tea and eve...

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

President of the territorial yakuza organization is being manipulated by a crooked leader in the mil...

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

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

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

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

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

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

In the hyper-masculine criminal underworld, a masochistic high-ranking yakuza and his newly-assigned...

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

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

The adventures of a blind, gambling masseur and master swordsman. Zatoichi targets a yakuza-controll...

Returning to the village where a year before he had killed Hirate, a much-admired opponent, Zatoichi...

Follows the final days of the shogunate and Shinsengumi's Vice-Comander Hijikata Toshizo along with ...

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

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

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