Ichibei, a thief known as "Yami no Kiba," and his daughter Oasa are caught by members of a street performer family with a nationwide organization when the kite they are riding falls deep into the mountains of Owari. Nitayu, the key person in the clan, learns of Ichibei's obsession to avenge his father's murder by the Tokugawas and promises to help him. When Ichibei learns of Shogun Ienari's plan to transport a pure gold statue of Prince Ieyasu from Sunpu to Edo Castle, he joins forces with the bandit Kojiro to steal it. ......
The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. The husband ...
Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and an ag...
After the fall of the Tokugawa Shogunate, there was a series of battles fought while the former supp...
When his mother's untimely death quickly follows his father's, a doctor begins to believe a killer m...
Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice gam...
The stormy tale of the Shinsengumi is told from its birth by master filmmaker Sasaki Yasushi, with a...
Even though Gennosuke and Oboro are from rival ninja villages, they are secretly in love. At an annu...
During the ultra-violent era of the downfall of the Tokugawa Shogunate one man rose above the rest w...
Genjiro was a samurai in the past, but he became a Yakuza, a dandy with a tattoo of red peonies, he ...
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...
Iwane Sakazaki returns to his homeland and gets caught in the middle of an incident that results in ...
A humble page fathers a child by the daughter of a clan official and is banished. Years later, the c...
The adventures of a blind, gambling masseur and master swordsman. Zatoichi targets a yakuza-controll...
Returning to the village where a year before he had killed Hirate, a much-admired opponent, Zatoichi...
In the second film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto battles a group of female ninja in th...
Sen no Rikyu (Ebizo Ichikawa) is the son of a fish shop owner. Sen no Rikyu then studies tea and eve...
Fearless Edo-period police inspector Hanzo Itami, nicknamed The Razor, has developed his own unique ...
Against the backdrop of the Edo treasury devaluing currency and driving many into poverty, Hanzo Ita...