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.

Toma (Go Kato) is a son of a doctor in Takane, Yoshitomo Monzen. He was ordered by the sick federal ...

Before he was a protector, Kenshin was a fearsome assassin known as Battosai. But when he meets gent...

Kakunoshin Yanagida was a samurai, forced to leave the Han due to a false accusation. He then lived ...

Saotome Mondonosuke is Hatamoto (a high-class warrior who is allowed to see the Shogun in person) wh...

Isozoemon (Go Kato) was a ronin (masterless samurai) and broke, who lived in a Choya (cheap apartmen...

"Tsubaki Sanjuro" is a remake of Sanjuro (1962) by Akira Kurosawa. Sanjuro returns with sharper, fas...

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

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

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

The 21-year-old feudal on Sendai, Tsunamune Date, was prohibited to go out in the daytime for his mi...

A remake of High Noon (1952) as a Japanese jidai-geki sword-fighting movie.

Two rogue vagrants make their living as "manure men", turning the waste from the tenement toilets in...

A young lord solves the mystery of multiple murders involving a young couple and a woman.

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

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

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The second Bounty Hunter film, when master killer Shikoro Ichibei takes up the cause of a group of f...

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