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 samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...

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

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

Ogami Itto battles a group of female ninja in the employ of the Yagyu clan and must eliminate a trai...

A lone gambler tries to keep a yakuza family from taking over a festival in Kitakyushu. After away f...

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

The third part of the series of films based on the Japanese epic novel Nanso Satomi Hakkenden by Kyo...

Ichi is a blind entertainer that travels the countryside with her traditional Japanese guitar and wa...

Wishing to find peace, Zatoichi travels to his old village but only finds trouble when he ends up in...

After arriving in the town of Shimonita, Ichi finds that a price has been put on his head by a local...

Amagi Goe, based on Seicho Matsumoto's novel, has created numerous stars through its visualizations....

Zatoichi is sworn to protect the life of a young girl and without any real allies finds himself in t...

A look at the relationship between a young blind samurai and his wife, who will make a sacrifice in ...

In the Edo period, a nameless ronin accepts an assignment to go to a mountain pass and wait. Near th...

"Tsubaki Sanjuro" is a remake of Sanjuro (1962) by Akira Kurosawa. Sanjuro returns with sharper, fas...

In a poor district of Edo lives a young samurai named Soza. He has been sent by his clan to avenge t...

Set during Japan's Shogun era, this film looks at life in a samurai compound where young warriors ar...

A man is brutally murdered and his famed shamisen (a three-stringed musical instrument) called the "...

In 1908, Director/Producer Shozo Makino (father of Japanese cinema) directed and produced the first...

Ryunosuke, a gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate rule, ha...