At the beginning of the 19th century, Japan was under a policy of national isolation. A group of Dutch scholars who wanted to open the country secretly completed a copy of a map of Japan under shogunate control. They sent a young Dutch scholar, Michi-an, as a secret envoy to deliver the copy of the map to the Dutch. Michi-an, hiding himself and making his way through the deserted winter mountains, but the mountain guardians, led by Takayama, had begun hunting in the mountains with a description of Michi-an's appearance arranged by the shogunate.
Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice gam...
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...
In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to ch...
In the 14th year of the Genroku period, Asano, the head carpenter of Edo Castle, attacked Kira, the ...
In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a ...
Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, "Rashomon" is perhaps the fines...
A British spy is banished to Panama after having an affair with an ambassador's mistress. Once there...
The adventures of a blind, gambling masseur and master swordsman. Zatoichi targets a yakuza-controll...
Returning to the village where a year before he had killed Hirate, a much-admired opponent, Zatoichi...
Kunisada Chuji is a common folk hero who looks out for poor people in the country who are at the mer...
A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival ...
Sen no Rikyu (Ebizo Ichikawa) is the son of a fish shop owner. Sen no Rikyu then studies tea and eve...
When the brutal Boshin War breaks out in Japan, a group of inmates on death row unite to defend a fo...
Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors ar...
Ichi is a blind entertainer that travels the countryside with her traditional Japanese guitar and wa...
The conclusion of the story of famed swordsman, Sasaki Kojiro. After surviving a series of daring ad...
Zatoichi is sworn to protect the life of a young girl and without any real allies finds himself in t...
The film is set in Edo period. As an orphan child Mio starts working at a restaurant in Osaka where ...
Ryunosuke, a gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate rule, ha...
In Edo-era Japan, a ukiyo-e artist languishes in his master’s shadow. Creatively stifled, he finds c...