In the late 19th century, rakugo student Taihei gives up hope of making the grade, and his despair leads him to take up residence at a rowhouse in Tokyo's Fukagawa district. There he meets an emotionally distant boy named Sadakichi, and as fate would have it, he ends up teaching him rakugo.

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

Wishing to find peace, Zatoichi travels to his old village but only finds trouble when he ends up in...

After arriving in the town of Shimonita, Ichi finds that a price has been put on his head by a local...

Ryunosuke, a gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate rule, ha...

Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors ar...

In a poor district of Edo lives a young samurai named Soza. He has been sent by his clan to avenge t...

A look at the relationship between a young blind samurai and his wife, who will make a sacrifice in ...

In the Edo period, a nameless ronin accepts an assignment to go to a mountain pass and wait. Near th...

Kakunoshin Yanagida was a samurai, forced to leave the Han due to a false accusation. He then lived ...

"Tsubaki Sanjuro" is a remake of Sanjuro (1962) by Akira Kurosawa. Sanjuro returns with sharper, fas...

In the last days of the Tokugawa shogunate, there was a cute warrior, Souji Okita, who belonged to t...

Zatoichi is sworn to protect the life of a young girl and without any real allies finds himself in t...

Before he was a protector, Kenshin was a fearsome assassin known as Battosai. But when he meets gent...

A thrilling and entertaining piece in which Jirokichi, portrayed by Morio Kazama, tackles a major ev...

Before Tokugawa Yoshimune, known as the "Ravage Shogun", was the lord of the Kishu domain, before he...

Ichi is a blind entertainer that travels the countryside with her traditional Japanese guitar and wa...

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival ...

Momotaro carries this sword into battle against injustice in shogunate Japan. Aided by ninja he must...

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

Isozoemon (Go Kato) was a ronin (masterless samurai) and broke, who lived in a Choya (cheap apartmen...