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.

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

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

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

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

In 1908, Director/Producer Shozo Makino (father of Japanese cinema) directed and produced the first...

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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...

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Kanichiro Yoshimura is a Samurai and Family man who can no longer support his wife and children on t...

Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemp...

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

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