A traveling gambler becomes duty-bound to the wife and child of the yakuza he had slain and desires to leave the criminal life for good. However, with no other skills but his sword, he is forced to hire himself out in the midst of a gang war.
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...
GOZEN is a jidageki (period piece) dramas. The word “gozen” refers to a feudal game held in the pres...
Kanichiro Yoshimura is a Samurai and Family man who can no longer support his wife and children on t...
Sen no Rikyu (Ebizo Ichikawa) is the son of a fish shop owner. Sen no Rikyu then studies tea and eve...
Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemp...
TV movie based on the novel "The Tale of Genji" by Murasaki Shikibu, which tells about the life of P...
Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersona...
Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century....
With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare's King Lear as a singular histori...
Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifull...
Ronin Sasaki Kojiro pursues his ultimate goal of becoming a master swordsman. Along the way he encou...
Kunisada Chuji is a common folk hero who looks out for poor people in the country who are at the mer...
In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers...
A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival ...
Five swordsmen are murdered and hung from a tree and the chase is on to find the killers. Two magist...
Floating Vessel (源氏物語 浮舟 , Ukifune) is a 1957 color Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa. Dr...
Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice gam...
In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a ...
Heizo's cousin Senemon Misawa and his son Katsuzo visited Heizo's home. Heizo learns that Senemon ha...
Edo town thief called "Acrobatics boy" has been rampant in town, just that time, spy, Goro of Otaki ...