A wave of terror is threatening to unseat Shogun Yoshimune. Police stations are erupting into flames, convicts escaping from prison, houses robbed and vandalized, streets teeming with panicked citizens. Is Ijyuin Tanomo, highly-placed official of Owari clan, secretly using deadly ninja to foment riot and rebellion? Narumiya Shinbei, a lone samurai spy adept at ninjutsu must uncover the hidden hand orchestrating these shocking crimes. Shinbei enlists a small band of dedicated ninja to lay siege to the enemy’s stronghold, where his own sister works as an undercover agent. Now, ninja must fight ninja in a last desperate battle to save the shogunate.
The classic tale of the shogun's illegitimate son Aoi Shingo is told in three parts as he strives to...
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...
Nagasaki at the end of the Edo period had the taste of a criminal paradise, where, despite the exoti...
Chronichles the story of the Forty-seven Ronin.
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Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan w...
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...
Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemp...
In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers...
A group of travelers is stranded in a small country inn when the river floods during heavy rains. As...
Fearless Edo-period police inspector Hanzo Itami, nicknamed The Razor, has developed his own unique ...
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...
Against the backdrop of the Edo treasury devaluing currency and driving many into poverty, Hanzo Ita...
Hanzo extracts a confession from a ghost using his assaulting methods, foils thieves, connects with ...
In Edo-era Japan, a ukiyo-e artist languishes in his master’s shadow. Creatively stifled, he finds c...
A touching true story which portrays a doctor who selflessly dedicated his personal fortune to sprea...
In the third entry into this mega-hit series, Isshin Tasuke, a spirited fishmonger in Edo who looks ...