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.

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

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors ar...

Ryunosuke, a gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate rule, ha...

Amagi Goe, based on Seicho Matsumoto's novel, has created numerous stars through its visualizations....

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

The story of Ryoma Sakamoto, considered to be the architect behind the downfall of the Tokugawa shog...

Ichi is a blind entertainer that travels the countryside with her traditional Japanese guitar and wa...

The government in Edo era is suffering from a financial crisis. It hires "Kage" to provoke the colla...

Kotani Zenzaemon, a ronin who has a side job making brushes in a tenement house in the back alley, i...

"Tsubaki Sanjuro" is a remake of Sanjuro (1962) by Akira Kurosawa. Sanjuro returns with sharper, fas...

Wishing to find peace, Zatoichi travels to his old village but only finds trouble when he ends up in...

After arriving in the town of Shimonita, Ichi finds that a price has been put on his head by a local...

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

A military explorer meets and befriends a Goldi man in Russia’s unmapped forests. A deep and abiding...

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

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

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

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

Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice gam...