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.

A ronin desperately seeks a way out of financial straits; he allies with the Tosa clan under the rut...

In the mist of the warring age (Sengoku Era), the Kyushu based Hayato Clan is faced with a monumenta...

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

Young lord investigates the mysterious death that takes place in the underworld.

A young lord solves the mystery of multiple murders involving a young couple and a woman.

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

Takahashi Hideki stars as Muyonosuke, the one-eyed ronin who makes his living as a bounty hunter who...

Saotome Mondonosuke is Hatamoto (a high-class warrior who is allowed to see the Shogun in person) wh...

Isozoemon (Go Kato) was a ronin (masterless samurai) and broke, who lived in a Choya (cheap apartmen...

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...

Toma (Go Kato) is a son of a doctor in Takane, Yoshitomo Monzen. He was ordered by the sick federal ...

After his wife dies, a blacksmith named Balian is thrust into royalty, political intrigue and bloody...

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...

In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a ...

Kakizaki Yuji’s period film is not like the jidaigeki films we are used to. While it deals with them...

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

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

Two rogue vagrants make their living as "manure men", turning the waste from the tenement toilets in...

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