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.

Sen no Rikyu (Ebizo Ichikawa) is the son of a fish shop owner. Sen no Rikyu then studies tea and eve...

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

One evening, when the monk Saito Musashibo Benkei was luring for his sword number 1000 at Gojo bridg...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Even though Gennosuke and Oboro are from rival ninja villages, they are secretly in love. At an annu...

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

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...

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

One samurai is ordered to kill another by their master in punishment.

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

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