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.

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

In the late 16th century, after the death of Nobunaga Oda, Hideyoshi Toyotomi takes power. The age o...

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

From birth Hideyoshi was a restless, defiant spirit--a child of the poorest of the poor. Cast out of...

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

During the reign of Hidetada, the second shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty, the advisor Okubo Hikozaemo...

Ichibei, a thief known as "Yami no Kiba," and his daughter Oasa are caught by members of a street pe...

Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who pred...

Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed w...

Kabuki adaptation: A princess, a figure from the literary past who anticipates a modern woman, tempt...

Nakazo is forced by his foster mother, Shun, to practice dance intensively. He is bullied in the Kab...

A historical scroll depicting the story of the tragic fate of the young samurai Minamoto Yoshitsune,...

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

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

It is a historical drama that follows Katsu Kaishu's efforts to surrender Edo Castle bloodlessly in ...

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

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

Utaemon Ichikawa plays the role of Hikoshiro Navate, who has a strong sense of justice and opposes p...