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.

A ronin desperately seeks a way out of financial straits; he allies with the Tosa clan under the rut...

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

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

Takahashi Hideki stars as Muyonosuke, the one-eyed ronin who makes his living as a bounty hunter who...

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 ...

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

A period comedy set at the end of the Sengoku Period about Sasuke Saruhi, a middle-aged ninja.

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

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

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

On the day his mother dies, young gambler Jirocho swears in front of her grave that he'll never gamb...

The Shinsengumi is a special unit of ronin commissioned by the Tokugawa shogunate to counter anti-sh...

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

A lone gambler tries to keep a yakuza family from taking over a festival in Kitakyushu. After away f...

During the latter part of the 16th Century, Japan's Warring States era was coming to a close. After ...

Matauemon Araki (Kotaro Satomi) is a sword teacher in Yamatokoriyama. He heard from his brother-in-l...

In this exciting story, Sasuke Sarutobi, known as the bravest child in the world, fulfills the will ...

When master swordsman Mikogami Genshiro of the Ono fencing school returns to find that his ailing se...

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