The epic battles between the Heike and Genji (Taira and Minamoto clans) take centerstage as the defeated leader of the Genji, Minamoto Yoritomo resolves to end his clan's exile and avenge the brutal loss in December, 1159 as they had fought under the white banner of the Emperor, while the Taira fought under their red flags in a battle to the death. The fight only took one day, with the Genji suffering utter defeat which led to their exile. His father, Yoshitomo, took responsibility for the loss and rather than live in humiliation, he decides to commit suicide with all his sons following him. However, the bravest warrior among them, Yoritomo stands tall and declares that he will not kill himself, but rather will fight to restore the clan.

Zatoichi is sworn to protect the life of a young girl and without any real allies finds himself in t...

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

Henry II and his estranged queen, Eleanor of Aquitaine, battle over the choice of an heir.

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

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

Eight visually rich vignettes drawn from Kurosawa’s own dreams—fox weddings and vanished orchards, a...

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

Raised suckling poison arrows among the sparring Iga ninja factions, Mumon is a carefree 16th-centur...

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

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

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

When master swordsman Mikogami Genshiro of the Ono fencing school returns to find that his ailing se...

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...

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

During the reign of the eighth shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate, the Yunagaya Domain in the Tohoku r...

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

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...