Brings Shingo face to face against Yagyu Tajima, the Shogun’s fencing instructor in a match that could save a domain near Osaka. Meanwhile Shogun Yoshimune must face a painful decision whether or not he can finally see his son for the first time.
In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a ...
The stormy tale of the Shinsengumi is told from its birth by master filmmaker Sasaki Yasushi, with a...
The main character, Baian Fujieda, is a dark hero who has two faces: one as a skilled acupuncturist ...
Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice gam...
Furuta Oribe is ordered to become tea master under Toyotomi Hideyoshi after his teacher Sen no Rikyū...
Set in war-torn feudal Japan, the Iga ninja make a final stand as the overwhelming armies of Warlord...
Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, "Rashomon" is perhaps the fines...
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...
Takizawa Bakin, a popular Edo period author, begins to recount a story he is planning in front of hi...
Orphaned Kiku was raised at a Buddhist temple and learned theatrical arts and martial arts as a chil...
Iwane Sakazaki returns to his homeland and gets caught in the middle of an incident that results in ...
Genjiro was a samurai in the past, but he became a Yakuza, a dandy with a tattoo of red peonies, he ...
Oda Nobunaga (1534–1582) was a major daimyo during the Warring State period of Japanese history. He ...
A samurai is struggling to make ends meet at the end of the Edo period. He has students and, among o...
The masked avenger Kurama Tengu is linked to a plot to bring down the Tokugawa shogunate, but is it ...
A humble page fathers a child by the daughter of a clan official and is banished. Years later, the c...
1953 jidaigeki directed by Nobuo Nakagawa of Jigoku and Ghost of Yotsuya fame.
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 Edo-era Japan, a ukiyo-e artist languishes in his master’s shadow. Creatively stifled, he finds c...