Yagyu Jubei, the finest swordsman in the land, is called upon to bare his blade to help Iemitsu keep his post. Meanwhile a fishmonger named Isshin Tasuke who bears an amazing resemblance to Shogun Iemitsu may be called upon to put his life on the line by acting as the Shogun's double. At the same time, the tragic story of Banzuiin Chobei and Mizuno Jurozaemon is unfolding.

It is a historical drama that follows Katsu Kaishu's efforts to surrender Edo Castle bloodlessly in ...

The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, wh...

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

Young Lord Genjiro, who abandoned his castle to live as a commoner in Edo, returns home to restore p...

Fifth movie in the Hissatsu (Sure Death!) Series. At the behest of a corrupt bureaucrat, a mysterio...

Having put down his sword and given up the will to fight, the masterless samurai Iemon lives in soli...

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

In the turbulent last days of the Edo period, Kawai Tsugunosuke, a Japanese samurai serving the Maki...

Master thief Kinosuke arrives in Edo to pull off one final heist for a tea-server who resembles his ...

A tale of friendship, betrayal, and forbidden love—set against the backdrop of Edo’s criminal underw...

Raised suckling poison arrows among the sparring Iga ninja factions, Mumon is a carefree 16th-centur...

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

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

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...

When an artist dies, the official cause of death is judged to be a stroke, but his daughter suspects...