The classic tale of the shogun's illegitimate son Aoi Shingo is told in three parts as he strives to become the greatest fencer in Japan, while his father Shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune seeks to reunite with his lost son. Part 1 sets up the story and introduces the characters. When the secrets of Shingo's birth are revealed to him, it sets off a series of events that bring him to cross swords with members of the shogun's inner circle.

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

In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a ...

In 16th century Japan, peasants Genjuro and Tobei sell their earthenware pots to a group of soldiers...

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

Fearless Edo-period police inspector Hanzo Itami, nicknamed The Razor, has developed his own unique ...

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

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...

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

During the latter part of the 16th Century, Japan's Warring States era was coming to a close. After ...

During the Sengoku period, an army relentlessly lays siege to a castle, but they will need the head ...

Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and an ag...

In Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving not...

The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. The husband ...

With a mixture of drama, warlords, battles, love, tragedy all set with great music, this made for te...

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

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

The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, wh...