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.

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

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

In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers...

Kanichiro Yoshimura is a Samurai and Family man who can no longer support his wife and children on t...

Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemp...

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

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

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

The story of Ryoma Sakamoto, considered to be the architect behind the downfall of the Tokugawa shog...

Kotani Zenzaemon, a ronin who has a side job making brushes in a tenement house in the back alley, i...

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

During the latter part of the 16th Century, Japan's Warring States era was coming to a close. After ...

Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century....

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

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

Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersona...

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

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

During the Sengoku period, an army relentlessly lays siege to a castle, but they will need the head ...