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.

Japan blossomed into its Renaissance at approximately the same time as Europe. Unlike the West, it f...

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

A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Pari...

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

When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-centu...

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

A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supre...

The true story of the frightening, lonely world of silence and darkness of 7-year-old Helen Keller w...

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

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

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

A housemaid falls in love with Dr. Jekyll and his darkly mysterious counterpart, Mr. Hyde.

Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, ...

Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview, moves to oil-rich California. Using ...

Fewer samurai films are being made, and the Uzumasa studio has fallen on hard times. One day, vetera...

A week in the life of the exploited, child newspaper sellers in turn-of-the-century New York. When t...

Near the end of the shogunate in Japan, Katsura Shogoro and his fellow samurai from the southwestern...

Against the backdrop of New York City of the early 1850s, a young woman -- naively seeking to win th...

During the War of 1812 against Britain: General Andrew Jackson has only 1,200 men left to defend New...

In late XIX century, rich and bored Maria (Paola Senatore) is after a more sexually interesting life...