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.

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On the run after committing murder, an accountant encounters a strange Native American man who prepa...

A posse discovers a trio of men they suspect of murder and cow theft and are split between handing t...

Tired of life as soldiers, Peachy Carnehan and Danny Dravot travel to the isolated land of Kafirista...

A member of an elite paramilitary counter-terrorism unit becomes traumatized after witnessing the su...

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

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...

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Shuji Mimura works as a broadcast writer. He learns that he doesn't have much time left to live. He ...

The ninth and final film in the Contemporary Tales of Chivalry series.

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

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

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

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