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.

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

Based on the historical figure of Nobutora, the father of the famous Warring States period general T...

Japan, 1137. The Taira family, a samurai clan, becomes involved in the disputes between Emperor Toba...

Young Lord Taihei goes to Edo to find the lost family treasure, a plover incense burner, under the d...

Kohei Akiyama, a popular master swordsman, and his son Daijiro live in the town of Edo in good faith...

Having put down his sword and given up the will to fight, the masterless samurai Iemon lives in soli...

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

The Color Print of Edo is a 1939 black and white Japanese silent film with benshi accompaniment dire...

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

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

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

Young Lord Genjiro, who abandoned his castle to live as a commoner in Edo, returns home to restore p...

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

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

Kohei Akiyama, a popular master swordsman, and his son Daijiro live in the town of Edo in good faith...

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

A jidaigeki film on Banzuiin Chōbei produced in 1940 and directed by Yasuki Chiba.

In 1908, Director/Producer Shozo Makino (father of Japanese cinema) directed and produced the first...

Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who pred...

Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed w...