Assassination begins with the events of 1853 when "four black ships" anchored at Edo Bay, sparking civil unrest and the major political manoeuvring that saw the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate. At a time when assassination had become a disturbing political tool, Shinoda's film follows Hachiro Kiyokawa, an ambitious, masterless samurai whose allegiances drift dangerously between the Shogunate and the Emperor.

Two lost souls visiting Tokyo -- the young, neglected wife of a photographer and a washed-up movie s...

Blind traveler Zatoichi is a master swordsman and a masseur with a fondness for gambling on dice gam...

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

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...

A cursed dancer and a blind musician — both ostracized by society — become business partners and ins...

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

The Way of Drama unfolds in the world of kabuki in Osaka, but also addresses the politics of popular...

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

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

Fifth movie in the Hissatsu (Sure Death!) Series. At the behest of a corrupt bureaucrat, a mysterio...

After marrying a successful Parisian writer known commonly as Willy, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette is tr...

A daughter is constantly overshadowed by her famous father, but she is determined to make her own ma...

Shinohara, a young bodybuilder, joins a para-military sect in northern Japan. His instructor, Takiz...

The film charts the story of Oscar Wilde’s marriage to Lloyd, an author and activist, and the sexual...

Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.

Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of...

Kaoru Fukazawa is a manga artist. His manga series was published for eight years, but has now finish...

In late 18th century Venice, in a convent school for girls, Teresa, a student with prophetic gifts, ...

In 19th-century Louisiana's Cajun country, Belizaire is the informal spokesman for his citizens, who...

Summoned by his dying father, Miyagi returns to his homeland of Okinawa, with Daniel, after a 40-yea...