When a civil war threatens to break out, two geishas flee from their village with aristocrats. During the long journey, the socially inferior women prove to be morally superior to their betters.

Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals....

Kenji, the eldest son of Masajiro, a wealthy moneylender, refuses to work in the family business and...

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

When the brutal Boshin War breaks out in Japan, a group of inmates on death row unite to defend a fo...

At Sakurada Gate in 1860, the shogun’s chief minister and his retinue of bodyguards are ambushed and...

Documentary filmmaker Genya Tachibana has tracked down the legendary actress Chiyoko Fujiwara, who m...

Depicts the bloody siege of the fortress of Port Arthur, one of the most strongly fortified position...

When his mother's untimely death quickly follows his father's, a doctor begins to believe a killer m...

Lady Snowblood is caught by the police and sentenced to death for her crimes. As she is sent to the ...

In a small Japanese village at the end of the 19th century, a rickshaw driver's wife takes on a much...

The film depicts carnivalesque atmosphere summed up by the cry "Ei ja nai ka" ("Why not?") in Japan ...

A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband die...

In the year 1868, three young men join the elite Shogitai division of the Shogunate. The Shogitai fi...

A genius and reckless poet and a hard working musician are asked by the CEO of a children literatur...

It was a tumultuous time. In the early Meiji period, there was the first photographer in Japan who l...

Traces the rise of the company Suzuki Shoten from the 1880's to 1919. After the death of her husband...

Two infantry regiments of the Imperial Japanese Army—210 men overall—tackled Mt. Hakkoda in the wint...

In the Meiji period, a schoolteacher tries to hide his lower-class upbringing as he supports a visit...

A lifelong love of flight inspires Japanese aviation engineer Jiro Horikoshi, whose storied career i...