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.

At the strong insistence of his father, Ushimatsu Segawa conceals his origins from a “buraku” area o...

Years have passed since the Three Musketeers, Aramis, Athos and Porthos, have fought together with t...

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

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...

The Way of Drama unfolds in the world of kabuki in Osaka, but also addresses the politics of popular...

During the Edo period, a gifted swordsman was exiled from his clan when he questioned the misconduct...

Shindo Yuya quits his job and joins the agriculture and forestry division of Takasaki City in Gunma ...

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...

A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower girl. His on-and-off friendship with a wealthy m...

After returning from a concentration camp, Susanne finds a traumatized ex-soldier living in her apar...

A gold prospector in Alaska struggles to survive the elements and win the heart of a dance hall girl...
The legendary tale of the forty-seven samurai and their mission to avenge the death of their master.

The legendary tale of the forty-seven samurai who seek vengeance against the man who caused their ma...

Brash, loudmouthed and opportunistic, Kikujiro is the unlikely companion for Masao who is determined...

A story of love and life among the landed English gentry during the Georgian era. Mr. Bennet is a ge...

In early 20th-century Montana, Col. William Ludlow lives on a ranch in the wilderness with his sons,...

Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They...