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.

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

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

During the Sengoku period, an army relentlessly lays siege to a castle, but they will need the head ...

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

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

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...

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

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

Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century....

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