A sadistic Daimyo (feudal lord) rapes a woman and murders both her and her husband, but even when one of his own vassals commits suicide to bring attention to the crime, the matter is quickly hushed up. Not only will there be no punishment, but because the Daimyo is the Shogun's younger brother, he will soon be appointed to a high political position from which he could wreak even more havoc. Convinced that the fate of the Shogunate hangs in the balance, a plot is hatched to assassinate the Daimyo. The two most brilliant strategic minds of their generation find themselves pitted against each other; one is tasked to defend a man he despises, and has a small army at his disposal. The other is given a suicide mission, and has 12 brave men. They are the 13 Assassins.

Inspector General Kanjuro Sano conspires with the future shogun twin brother. They replace Ieyoshi T...

Japan's greatest jidaigeki star, Mifune Toshiro is Shogun's Advisor Okubo Hikozaemon who must be coa...

This documentary film follows for 22 years a nine-member family involved in the manufacturing of Udo...
A school girl visits a house to take a koto lesson. She meets her teacher and her son and they seem ...

With a mixture of drama, warlords, battles, love, tragedy all set with great music, this made for te...

Set in 19th Century Japan a young samurai who finds himself in love with a farm girl leaves his home...

A man is brutally murdered and his famed shamisen (a three-stringed musical instrument) called the "...

Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, K...

After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Inte...

Following the death of the second Tokugawa shogun, it is revealed that he was poisoned by retainers ...

Toma (Go Kato) is a son of a doctor in Takane, Yoshitomo Monzen. He was ordered by the sick federal ...

Saotome Mondonosuke is Hatamoto (a high-class warrior who is allowed to see the Shogun in person) wh...

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

This psychedelic tour of life after death is seen entirely from the point of view of Oscar, a young ...

Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie s...

Slevin is mistakenly put in the middle of a personal war between the city’s biggest criminal bosses....

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A 100-year-old resident of a Lake Biwa nursing home dies mysteriously. Did a respirator keeping him ...

An exciting historical drama that dynamically depicts the life of Minamoto no Yoshitsune from the pe...

At the end of the Heian period, Musashibo Benkei, a warrior monk who hated the Heike clan, was humil...