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.
A single bullet cuts through Kyoto in the last days of the Tokugawa shogunate right before the resto...
The stormy tale of the Shinsengumi is told from its birth by master filmmaker Sasaki Yasushi, with a...
Kichigoro, a firefighter from the Maeda family of the Kaga Principality, rescues Oshimo, the younger...
A humble page fathers a child by the daughter of a clan official and is banished. Years later, the c...
An Edo appointed official Baba must ensure the safe delivery of shogunate funds to Kyoto.
With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare's King Lear as a singular histori...
A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival ...
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...
Kakunoshin Yanagida (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi) was a samurai, but he was forced out of the Han due to a fal...
Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century....
Orphaned Kiku was raised at a Buddhist temple and learned theatrical arts and martial arts as a chil...
During the ultra-violent era of the downfall of the Tokugawa Shogunate one man rose above the rest w...
Two child performers lose their money, but are saved by the masked avenger Kurama Tengu. When the ch...
Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersona...
Oda Nobunaga (1534–1582) was a major daimyo during the Warring State period of Japanese history. He ...
Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, "Rashomon" is perhaps the fines...
When Nizaemon Kumogiri, a major thief quits his job as a thief, he has two more big jobs planned in ...
Musashi returns Japan's legendary swordsman and philosopher to the screen once again. In an original...
In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a ...