This historical film depicts the life of a man who was at the mercy of the waves during transition from the end of the Edo period to the Meiji Restoration, and therefore, shows audience the dynamic change from Edo to Meiji. Before the war, the director, Eisuke Takizawa, together with the writers, formed a scenario writer group "Narutaki-gumi and they shot many historical masterpieces.

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show ...

A former gunslinger is forced to take up arms again when he and his cattle crew are threatened by a ...

A yakuza boss hires Goemon Ishikawa, a modern day samurai, to protect him aboard his cruise ship cas...

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

For six hundred years Sweden had controlled most of Finland until the war with Russia that ended in ...

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Based on a Anton Chekhov short story, this slight tale has some good moments as the drama of a young...

A fictionalised exploration of Beethoven's life in his final days working on his Ninth Symphony. It ...

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This film follows scientist Henry Bates as he explores the Amazon for proof of natural selection.

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

Helen Alving leads an outwardly contented life. On the eve of the 10th anniversary of her husband's ...

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A musician is offered a job in Vienna as stage director, but his disagreements with the aristocratic...

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

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In 1870s America, a peaceful American settler kills his family's murderer which unleashes the fury o...

The story of the romance between the King of Siam (now Thailand) and the widowed British school teac...