Orphaned Kiku was raised at a Buddhist temple and learned theatrical arts and martial arts as a child, which were used to put on stage productions to raise money for the temple, but also to display young lads who were essentially for sale to the highest bidder. When Kiku gets fed up with how the temple uses the orphans and wants to leave he gets accused of a double murder and has to flee for his life and liberty.

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

Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifull...

Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan w...

When an artist dies, the official cause of death is judged to be a stroke, but his daughter suspects...

One samurai is ordered to kill another by their master in punishment.

The ever versatile Kazuki Kitamura stars as masterless samurai Kyutaro Madarame, a feared swordsman ...

The second Bounty Hunter film, when master killer Shikoro Ichibei takes up the cause of a group of f...

Follows the final days of the shogunate and Shinsengumi's Vice-Comander Hijikata Toshizo along with ...

In this film, Hibari plays a dual role as brother and sister. The story involves a journey to Hanaga...

Even though Gennosuke and Oboro are from rival ninja villages, they are secretly in love. At an annu...

Japan, 1785. Jūzaburō, a famous thief who refuses to kill innocent people, is betrayed, ambushed, an...

The government in Edo era is suffering from a financial crisis. It hires "Kage" to provoke the colla...

Naosuke, a servant of Okajima Yasoemon, devoted himself to his master. One day, his master Okajima ...

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...

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

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

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