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.

Raised suckling poison arrows among the sparring Iga ninja factions, Mumon is a carefree 16th-centur...

Naosuke, a servant of Okajima Yasoemon, devoted himself to his master. One day, his master Okajima ...

Japan, 1785. Jūzaburō, a famous thief who refuses to kill innocent people, is betrayed, ambushed, an...

Takahagi Sutegoro is highly skilled at casing locations for thieves so that he can sell detailed flo...

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

A jidaigeki film on Banzuiin Chōbei produced in 1940 and directed by Yasuki Chiba.

A lone gambler tries to keep a yakuza family from taking over a festival in Kitakyushu. After away f...

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

Japan's greatest jidaigeki star, Mifune Toshiro is Shogun's Advisor Okubo Hikozaemon who must be coa...

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

When an artist dies, the official cause of death is judged to be a stroke, but his daughter suspects...

During the Edo period, a gifted swordsman was exiled from his clan when he questioned the misconduct...

Drama set in the historical Warring States Era of Japan. Tokaido name Imagawa Yoshimoto personally l...

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

Follows the final days of the shogunate and Shinsengumi's Vice-Comander Hijikata Toshizo along with ...

Hana leads a boring life between work and hobby, until one day she suddenly travels through time to ...

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

When master swordsman Mikogami Genshiro of the Ono fencing school returns to find that his ailing se...

In the 9th year of the Tempo era, after a long sea voyage, Moritaya Seizo returned to Hirado, who ea...

Gombei is Nameless, a wanderer who is skilled with a sword and has a great sense of humor, who tries...