In the turbulent last days of the Edo period, Kawai Tsugunosuke, a Japanese samurai serving the Makino clan of Nagaoka, dreamt of independence from the restraints of vassalship. Despite his progressive views and his desire for his estate to remain neutral during the Boshin Civil War, he was bound by loyalty and duty to the clan and was compelled to choose sides.

By mid-1945, Hitler is dead and the war has ended in Europe. Halfway around the world, however, the ...
After enduring 19 years in prison for stealing a loaf of bread, Jean Valjean emerges a hardened man....

A jidaigeki film on Banzuiin Chōbei produced in 1940 and directed by Yasuki Chiba.

The famed leader Oda Nobunaga had two right-hand men who contributed to unifying the nation. One was...

On the day his mother dies, young gambler Jirocho swears in front of her grave that he'll never gamb...

Based on the true story of the Bandō prisoner-of-war camp in World War I. It depicts the friendship ...

A period mystery in which an unconventional priest exposes the truth behind the bizarre death of a m...

Four people recount different versions of the story of a man's murder and the rape of his wife.

Nathan Algren is an American hired to instruct the Japanese army in the ways of modern warfare, whic...

The Color Print of Edo is a 1939 black and white Japanese silent film with benshi accompaniment dire...

Seven years after the death of his wife, widower Shigeharu seeks advice on how to find a new wife fr...

Matauemon Araki (Kotaro Satomi) is a sword teacher in Yamatokoriyama. He heard from his brother-in-l...

Fukami is a high school janitor whose father was a gangster. He works at the school as a janitor ins...

Several years after leaving the orphanage, to which her father never returned for her, Gabrielle Cha...

In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos ...

A young journalist interviews an elderly woman about being forced into prostitution in Borneo at a b...

A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s ...

Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century....