Young Lord Genjiro, who abandoned his castle to live as a commoner in Edo, returns home to restore peace amidst disruption over an inheritance dispute. Warned by a fortune-teller that he would die by the sword, the young lord must courageously battle 30 or 40 men who attack without warning. Meanwhile, his love affair with Kocho, a singer who is also a skilled archer.

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 ...

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

The fate of Tokugawa’s world hangs in the balance as Yagyu Jubei is sent on a mission to discover wh...

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

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...

The second Bounty Hunter film, when master killer Shikoro Ichibei takes up the cause of a group of f...

Even though Gennosuke and Oboro are from rival ninja villages, they are secretly in love. At an annu...

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

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

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...

In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a ...

Ichibei, a thief known as "Yami no Kiba," and his daughter Oasa are caught by members of a street pe...

Set at the end of the Sengoku period to early Edo period, "Sanada Ten Braves" follows 10 members of ...

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

Bored Hatamoto film #16.

In the late 16th century, after the death of Nobunaga Oda, Hideyoshi Toyotomi takes power. The age o...

In the third entry into this mega-hit series, Isshin Tasuke, a spirited fishmonger in Edo who looks ...