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.

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...

Having put down his sword and given up the will to fight, the masterless samurai Iemon lives in soli...

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

Master thief Kinosuke arrives in Edo to pull off one final heist for a tea-server who resembles his ...

A tale of friendship, betrayal, and forbidden love—set against the backdrop of Edo’s criminal underw...

In the turbulent last days of the Edo period, Kawai Tsugunosuke, a Japanese samurai serving the Maki...

Sen no Rikyu (Ebizo Ichikawa) is the son of a fish shop owner. Sen no Rikyu then studies tea and eve...

It is a historical drama that follows Katsu Kaishu's efforts to surrender Edo Castle bloodlessly in ...

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...

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

Young Lord Genjiro, who abandoned his castle to live as a commoner in Edo, returns home to restore p...

The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, wh...

Drama set in the historical Warring States Era of Japan. Tokaido name Imagawa Yoshimoto personally l...

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