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.

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

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

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

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

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

Amagi Goe, based on Seicho Matsumoto's novel, has created numerous stars through its visualizations....

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

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

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