In 1701, Lord Takuminokami Asano has a feud with Lord Kira and he tries to kill Kira in the corridors of the Shogun's palace. The Shogun sentences Lord Asano to commit suppuku and deprives the palace and lands from his clan, but does not punish Lord Kira. Lord Asano's vassals leave the land and his samurais become ronin and want to seek revenge against the dishonor of their Lord. But their leader Kuranosuke Oishi asks the Shogun to restore the Asano clan with his brother Daigaku Asano. One year later, the Shogun refuses his request and Oishi and forty-six ronin revenge their Lord.

Semi-retired Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler takes the case of Army Lt. Manion, who murdered a local in...

Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie s...

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

A cursed dancer and a blind musician — both ostracized by society — become business partners and ins...

As Japan’s Tokugawa shogunate nears the end of its rule, Edo North Magistrate Toyama no Kinsan is ca...

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...

Frustrated, because he is forced to produce bad TV-shows, a manager of a TV-station, enters the stat...

Ramón Sampedro is a ship mechanic and part-time poet left a quadriplegic following a diving accident...

It is the Edo Period. Younosuke, Nami, and Koutaro of the Hayate School and Ikkaku and Ikki of the I...

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

The true story of the frightening, lonely world of silence and darkness of 7-year-old Helen Keller w...

A rule-bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by t...

After completing jail time for beating up a man who tried to seduce his mentally-handicapped teenage...

Set in the Bronx during the tumultuous 1960s, an adolescent boy is torn between his honest, working-...

Journalists Ichiro Sakai and Junko cover the wreckage of a typhoon when an enormous egg is found and...

Based on a real-life story, this drama focuses on a small group of Allied soldiers in Burma who are ...

As a result of illness and unemployment, Yamaoka Tatewaki, a "Hatamoto" (or direct vassal of the Sho...

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, whic...

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