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.

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...

Using the Genpei War as its theme, this work depicts the nature of poor Shirabyoshi Tokiwa Gozen who...

Robin Hood fights nobly for justice against the evil Sir Guy of Gisbourne while striving to win the ...

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 ...

Arn, the son of a high-ranking Swedish nobleman is educated in a monastery and sent to the Holy Land...

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....

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

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...

The story recounts the early life of Genghis Khan, a slave who went on to conquer half the world in ...