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.

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

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

A historical scroll depicting the story of the tragic fate of the young samurai Minamoto Yoshitsune,...

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In Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving not...

Struggling to elevate himself from his low caste in 17th century Japan, Miyamoto trains to become a ...

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The 21-year-old feudal on Sendai, Tsunamune Date, was prohibited to go out in the daytime for his mi...

Warlord Oda Nobunaga seeks to unite a fractured Japan. A young man trained in the arts of ninjitsu i...

Kon Ichikawa's retelling of the classic true story of Samurai honor. When a young clan lord is force...

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

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

Two rogue vagrants make their living as "manure men", turning the waste from the tenement toilets in...

The third part of the series of films based on the Japanese epic novel Nanso Satomi Hakkenden by Kyo...

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

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