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”.

Even though Gennosuke and Oboro are from rival ninja villages, they are secretly in love. At an annu...

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...

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

The Color Print of Edo is a 1939 black and white Japanese silent film with benshi accompaniment dire...

The retelling of France’s iconic but ill-fated queen, Marie Antoinette - from her betrothal and marr...

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...

In the turbulent last days of the Edo period, Kawai Tsugunosuke, a Japanese samurai serving the Maki...

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

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

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

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

Will Plunkett and Captain James Macleane, two men from different ends of the social spectrum in 18th...

Set against the backdrop of an imperial victory in the civil war leading up to the Meiji Restoration...

The adventures of a group of Texas teens on their last day of school in 1976, centering on student R...

The second Bounty Hunter film, when master killer Shikoro Ichibei takes up the cause of a group of f...

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

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

In this film, Hibari plays a dual role as brother and sister. The story involves a journey to Hanaga...