Master swordsman and loya 'Hatamoto' (direct vassal to the Shogun), Saotome Mondonosuke, is sent to investigate an intrigue centering on the Date Clan. The 300th film in the long and illustrious career of Ichikawa Utaemon, one of the most popular Japanese film stars of the period; it brought out an all-star cast as well.
Tatsuya Nakadai, the world’s greatest living actor, returns to the screen in a brilliant adaptation ...
When an artist dies, the official cause of death is judged to be a stroke, but his daughter suspects...
Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice gam...
Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, "Rashomon" is perhaps the fines...
Even though Gennosuke and Oboro are from rival ninja villages, they are secretly in love. At an annu...
A samurai thief fights a gang of ghostly thieves using scorpions for treasure in the unexplored Shin...
In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a ...
The film vividly shows the misadventures of Oishi Kuranosuke and the human dramas inside the castle,...
At the beginning of the 19th century, Japan was under a policy of national isolation. A group of Dut...
Floating Vessel (源氏物語 浮舟 , Ukifune) is a 1957 color Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. Dr...
Detective Onihei better known as "Heizo the Demon" heads a group of skilled officers, however, one o...
A wave of terror is threatening to unseat Shogun Yoshimune. Police stations are erupting into flames...
The classic tale of the shogun's illegitimate son Aoi Shingo is told in three parts as he strives to...
Kozukenosuke Kira is slashed with a sword by Ako Daimyo, who holds deep contempt towards Kozukenosuk...
Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersona...
Sen no Rikyu (Ebizo Ichikawa) is the son of a fish shop owner. Sen no Rikyu then studies tea and eve...
Lord Oda Nobunaga plans to control Japan where rival warlords battle by waging war against several c...
Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan w...
Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifull...
Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century....