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.
The main character, Baian Fujieda, is a dark hero who has two faces: one as a skilled acupuncturist ...
Oda Nobunaga (1534–1582) was a major daimyo during the Warring State period of Japanese history. He ...
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...
Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice gam...
Orphaned Kiku was raised at a Buddhist temple and learned theatrical arts and martial arts as a chil...
The stormy tale of the Shinsengumi is told from its birth by master filmmaker Sasaki Yasushi, with a...
In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a ...
Set in 900AD and tells the story of a famous female writer of the time, Murasaki Shikibu. Her story ...
Takizawa Bakin, a popular Edo period author, begins to recount a story he is planning in front of hi...
Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, "Rashomon" is perhaps the fines...
When the brutal Boshin War breaks out in Japan, a group of inmates on death row unite to defend a fo...
Fifth movie in the Hissatsu (Sure Death!) Series. At the behest of a corrupt bureaucrat, a mysterio...
The masked avenger Kurama Tengu is linked to a plot to bring down the Tokugawa shogunate, but is it ...
During the ultra-violent era of the downfall of the Tokugawa Shogunate one man rose above the rest w...
With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare's King Lear as a singular histori...
Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifull...
Even though Gennosuke and Oboro are from rival ninja villages, they are secretly in love. At an annu...
The film is set in Kyoto at the end of the Tokugawa period, when there is a fierce clash between the...
Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who pred...