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.

The news that the fifth Shogun Tsunayoshi was seriously ill caused a fierce struggle for the post of...

The 40th and final "Tengu Kurama" feature starring Kanjuro Arashi.

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

A story about a tomboy, Otoshi, who is good at singing, dancing and fencing.

A remake of High Noon (1952) as a Japanese jidai-geki sword-fighting movie.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In the turbulent last days of the Edo period, Kawai Tsugunosuke, a Japanese samurai serving the Maki...

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

It is a historical drama that follows Katsu Kaishu's efforts to surrender Edo Castle bloodlessly in ...