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.

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Drama set in the historical Warring States Era of Japan. Tokaido name Imagawa Yoshimoto personally l...

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

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

Takahagi Sutegoro is highly skilled at casing locations for thieves so that he can sell detailed flo...

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

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 ...