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.

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

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

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

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

The news that the fifth Shogun Tsunayoshi was seriously ill caused a fierce struggle for the post of...

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

Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who pred...

Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed w...

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

The second of a two-part ninja action series depicting the elaborate espionage campaign occurring be...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Getting an opportunity to meet with another half-Caucasian swordsman, Kyoshiro finds himself involve...

A dynamic story depicting the rise to power of Oda Nobunaga. The story of a young man on the battlef...