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”.

Ghang-gheng, the ancient winner-take-all competition in which the deadliest fighters from around the...

It's 1947 and the borderlines between India and Pakistan are being drawn. A young girl bears witness...

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

Mexico City, November 1901. The police raid a private home where a secret party is being held. Among...

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

A sumptuous and sensual tale of intrigue, romance and betrayal set against the backdrop of a definin...

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

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

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

A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled...

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

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

Several years after leaving the orphanage, to which her father never returned for her, Gabrielle Cha...

Edmond Dantés's life and plans to marry the beautiful Mercedes are shattered when his best friend, F...

A lone gambler tries to keep a yakuza family from taking over a festival in Kitakyushu. After away f...

At the strong insistence of his father, Ushimatsu Segawa conceals his origins from a “buraku” area o...

In 1950s Mexico City, William Lee, an American ex-pat in his late forties, leads a solitary life ami...

An historical film that follows the life of Alexander the Great, the Macedonian king that united all...

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

In 1908, Director/Producer Shozo Makino (father of Japanese cinema) directed and produced the first...