GOZEN is a jidageki (period piece) dramas. The word “gozen” refers to a feudal game held in the presence of a Daimyo, described as a match “one must not lose”.

The film concerns the life of King Naresuan, who liberated the Siamese from the control of Burma. Bo...

The news that the fifth Shogun Tsunayoshi was seriously ill caused a fierce struggle for the post of...

Recently widowed Mary Bassett and her three children have hit difficult times on their farm. Suddenl...

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 ...

In the Edo period, a nameless ronin accepts an assignment to go to a mountain pass and wait. Near th...

A depressed Jester sets out across plague-ridden England to rescue the Queen’s nephew and prove he i...

Confederate Col. Lafe Harvey (Earl Ross) travels home after the Civil War, where he must tell his ni...

The Shinsengumi is a special unit of ronin commissioned by the Tokugawa shogunate to counter anti-sh...

A remake of High Noon (1952) as a Japanese jidai-geki sword-fighting movie.

In Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving not...

Chronicles the rise and fall of legendary blues singer Billie Holiday, beginning with her traumatic ...

In the early 1920s, a Kansas woman finds her life forever changed when she accompanies a young dance...

In 26 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accuse...

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...

In 1336, Pedro, heir to the Portuguese crown, marries Constanza Manuel de Villena, a Castilian noble...

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

Fifth movie in the Hissatsu (Sure Death!) Series. At the behest of a corrupt bureaucrat, a mysterio...

During China's Tang dynasty the emperor has taken the princess of a neighboring province as his wife...